广东省揭阳一中、金山中学2014届高三三模联考 英语试卷
I．语言知识及应用 (共两节，满分45分)
第一节 完形填空 (共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分)
阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1－15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并将答案涂在答题卡标号为1－15的相应位置上。
How can you tell if someone’s lying? The answer is, they’re probably not. Traditional economics says that people are 1 beings who will lie if it’s to their advantage. A recent university study has shown that, actually, we’re pretty 2 — especially when we’re at home.
Researchers in Germany 3 people at home and asked them to toss (投掷) a coin. There was a strong 4 incentive (刺激) to lie about the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participant would receive money, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get nothing. Because they were on the phone, they knew there was no 5 of getting caught if they lied.
And yet people told the 6 . Over hundreds of tosses a coin will land tails-up about 50% of the time. In this 7 over half the people asked (55.6%) said that the coin landed heads-up, which meant they would receive nothing.
Previous studies had found that people were more 8 . In those laboratory studies, 75% of people reported a 9 coin and asked for a reward. So the research team thinks it’s being in our own homes which makes us play fair, although it's not yet clear why.
In fact both types of study show people are surprisingly 10 . Even in the laboratory, 25% of people 11 a reward by telling the truth. The researchers say this is because honesty is 12 valued in human society. We care about our 13 and our sense of ourselves as decent (体面的) people. So lying has a psychological 14 and it seems this cost is more important than the financial benefits of 15 .
1. A. poor B. kind C. generous D. reasonable
2. A. honest B. strict C. calm D. afraid
3. A. visited B. saw C. phoned D. caught
4. A. mental B. financial C. technical D. educational
5. A. idea B. need C. evidence D. risk
6. A. difference B. truth C. story D. world
