阅读理解 "THE love of money", St Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil. ""All" may be putting it a bit strongly, but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie, cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.
Another well-known saying, ascribed to Benjamin Franklin, is "time is money". If true, that suggests a deduction: that the love of time is a root of evil, too. But a paper just published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite. They asked a group of volunteers to do a series of what appeared to be aptitude tests. As is often the case in such experiments, though, what the volunteers were told, and what the truth was, were rather different things.
In the first test they were asked to make, within three minutes, as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set of words they had been presented with. What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups. Some volunteers' word sets were seeded with ones associated with money, such as "dollars", "financing" and "spend". Some were seeded with words associated with time (eg, "clock", "hours", "moment"). And some were seeded with neither. Thus unknowingly primed, the volunteers were ready for the second test.
This was mathematical. They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers, two of which added up to ten (for example, 3.81 and 6.19). They had to write down, on a separate answer sheet, how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes. They were also given a packet of money and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.
Crucially, they were not asked to show their workings on the answer sheets—and the matrix sheets, on which those workings might have appeared, carried no identifier and were ostentatiously discarded once the test was done. Nevertheless, by hiding an identification code in a sample matrix on the answer sheet, Dr Gino and Dr Mogilner knew which matrix sheet each candidate had been given and thus who had cheated and who had not. They found that 88% of those who had been primed with money-related words in the first test cheated, as did 67% of those given neutral words. Of those primed with time-related words, though, only 42% cheated.

单选题 31.By saying "' All ' may be putting it a bit strongly", the author means St Paul' s attitude towards money is______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】态度题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第一段第一、二句。the root of all evil中的all是形容词，意为“所有的”，整体可译为“金钱是万恶之源”。第二句中的put意为“使……处于某种境地”，由关键词a bit strongly(过于严重)可知，作者认为圣保尔对金钱的看法过于绝对。A项意为“合理的”，很明显不符合文意，故错误。C项意为“冷漠的”，文中圣保尔并没有对金钱表现出冷漠之意，故错误。D项“轻视的”在文中找不到相关信息．故错误。B项意为“不客观的”，故本题选B。

单选题 32.According to Paragraph 2, the deduction is______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第二段第二句。that the love of time is a root of evil，too(对时间的珍爱也是万恶之源)是建立在圣保尔“金钱是万恶之源”和本杰明-富兰克林“时间就是金钱”的言论之上，故B项“与圣保尔的观点相联系”正确。A项意为推断“以事实为依据”，其在文中找不到相关信息，故错误。C项意为推断是“不合理的和不符合逻辑的”，作者并没有在文中表明关于“推断”的任何观点，故错误。D项意为推断与“弗兰切斯卡-吉诺和凯希-莫吉内尔的观点相吻合”，这与第二段关键词suggest precisely the opposite(持完全相反的结论)相悖，因此错误，故本题选B。

单选题 33.The volunteers were______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段。第一句关键词make…coherent sentences(造连贯的句子)，A项意为“被要求造尽可能多的词”，其与文中信息不符，故错误。B项“有意识地为第二场测试做准备”与文中thus unknowingly primed，the volunteers were ready for the second test表述不一致，故排除。D项“将不会得到奖励”与文中…told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered表述相悖，故排除。C项“被分为三组”与原文…had been assigned to one of three groups表述一致，故本题选C。

单选题 34.Which of the following was NOT true about the test?

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第五段。第一句关键词carried no identifier(没有识别标志，即试卷上没有写下姓名等身份信息)，故A项“不要求个人信息”正确。B项意为测试“发现了很多作弊者”，其在该段最后两句可找到相关信息，故正确。C项意为测试“附有秘密的身份代码”，该段第二句关键信息by hiding an identification code可证实这一点，故正确。D项意为测试“扔掉了参与者的做题思路”，文中原意为“测试结束后扔掉参与者的做题思路”，该项表达不够准确，因此错误，故本题选D。