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The gossip tossed the mossy blossom fossil. 爱讲闲话者向上抛长满苔藓的花化石.——青夏教育精英家教网——

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2025-02-23 07:35

完型填空（共20小题；每小题1.5分，满分30分）

阅读下面短文，从短文后各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出可以填入空白处的最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

A recent study shows that gossip（流言蜚语）is more powerful than truth. It suggests people believe what they hear through the grapevine(小道消息) 36 they have evidence to the contrary.

Researchers, 37 students using a computer game, also found gossip played an important role when people 38 decisions. “We show that gossip has a strong 39 , even when people have 40 to the original information as well as gossip about the same information. Thus, it is 41 that gossip has a strong controlling potential,” said Ralf Sommerfeld, who led the study.

In the study, the researchers 42 the students money and allowed them to give it to others in a series of rounds. The students also wrote 43 about how others played the game that everyone could review. Students tended to give 44 money to people described as “scrooges (吝啬鬼)” and more to those described as “ 45 players”. “People only believed the gossip, not the past decisions,” Sommerfeld said in a telephone interview.

The researchers then took the game a step 46 and showed the students the actual decisions people had made. But they also supplied false gossip that contradicted that 47 . In these cases, the students 48 their decisions to award money on the gossip, 49 the hard evidence.

“If you know what the people did, you should care, but they still 50 what others said,” Sommerfeld said. Researchers have 51 used similar games to study how people cooperate and the 52 of gossip in groups. Scientists define gossip 53 social information spread about a person who is not 54 . In evolutionary terms, gossip can be an important tool for people to 55 information about others' reputations or find the way through social networks at work and in their everyday lives.

1.A. in case B. for fear that C. as if D. even if

2. A. testing B. checking C. examining D. experimenting

3. A. drew B. made C. reached D. concluded

4. A. impression B. difference C. influence D. function

5.. A. access B. entrance C. charge D. communication

6. A. curious B. serious C. obvious D. worth

7. A. impressed B. asked C. showed D. gave

8. A. articles B. notes C. dairies D. letters

9. A. less B. more C. fewer D. much

10.A. general B. mean C. generous D. outgoing

11. A. away B. forward C. ahead D. further

12. A. existence B. evidence C. confidence D. dependence