单选题 What did you study at university? If it was something along the lines of law or business, you might want to look away now. That"s because according to new research, which has found a link between our university subjects and our personalities, you have selfish, uncooperative tendencies and are not very in touch with your feelings. On the plus side, you"re probably the life and soul of a party, the findings suggest.
Researchers analyzed data from more than 13,000 university students who were involved in 12 separate studies. From this, they discovered a correlation between the "Big Five" major personality traits and the subjects they were enrolled on.
For example, those studying law, economics, political science and medicine tended to be much more outgoing than those taking other subjects, the study found. But when it came to "agreeableness" —the tendency towards being helpful, generous and considerate—the lawyers scored particularly low, as did business and economics students.
Arts and humanities students, as well as those studying psychology and politics scored highly for openness, meaning they were curious, imaginative and in touch with their inner feelings, while economists, engineers, lawyers and scientists scored comparatively low. However, the arts and humanities students also tended to be less conscientious and more nervous, typically exhibiting signs of anxiety and moodiness. Psychology students were not far behind arts and humanities students for these traits.
Study author Anna Vedel, from the University of Aarhus in Denmark, said she was surprised by the results. "The effect sizes show that the differences found are not trivial, far from," she said. "On the more humorous side they do confirm our more or less prejudicial stereotypes of the disturbed psychologist, the withdrawn natural scientist, the cynical economist."
And she said that the findings could help those school pupils who currently have no idea what to study at university, as well as helping academics to plan their lectures. "I"m not arguing that these results should play a major role in either guidance or selection, but it might provide some inspiration for students that are in doubt about study choices and want to make a choice based on more than abilities, for example," said Dr Vedel. "Or teachers might better understand their student population."

单选题 The first paragraph implies that law or business students may ______.

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 第一段第二句“If it was something along the lines of law or business, you might want to look away now.”。
细节题。题目问的是第一段中文章暗示法学学生或商科学生可能会?第二句中，作者提到“如果是和法律或者商业相关的，那么你现在可以考虑不看本文了。”，这表明接下来的话可能会让这些学生感觉很不舒服。果然，下面提到了这些学生身上可能会存在的一些负面的性格。这肯定是这些学生不喜欢听到的，故选C。

单选题 According to the research, law students scored particularly low in the trait of ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第三段第二句“But when it came to "agreeableness" —the tendency towards being helpful, generous and considerate—the lawyers scored particularly low, as did business and economics students.”。
细节题。题目问的是根据研究，法学学生在哪个性格上得分非常低?第三段中提到，在“agreeableness”上，法学生得分很低。而agreeableness里面包括了helpful, generous和considerate三方面。四个选项中，A是generous的名词形式，故选A。

单选题 The word "conscientious" (Para. 4) probably means "______".

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 第四段倒数第二句“However, the arts and humanities students also tended to be less conscientious and more nervous, typically exhibiting signs of anxiety and moodiness.”。
辨析题。题目问的是第四段的conscientious是什么意思。四个答案的意思分别是moody“忧郁的”；sensitive“敏感的”；curious“好奇的”；careful“小心的，谨慎的”。原句中说less conscientious and more nervous，说明这个词的意思与nervous“紧张的”是反义，又说nervous会表现出anxiety(焦虑)和moodiness(忧郁)情绪，因此和这几个意思相关的词语都可以排除。综上所述，只有D正确，故选D。

单选题 Anna Vedel stated that the research ______.

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 第二段“Researchers analyzed data from more than 13,000 university students who were involved in 12 separate studies. From this, they discovered a correlation between the "Big Five" major personality traits and the subjects they were enrolled on.”。
归纳题。题目问的是安娜·韦德尔认为这项研究______。第二段中提到“研究者发现在‘五大’主要性格和学生所上专业之间存在着某种关联，”即选项A；第五段中提到“研究范围之广表明这些差异并不是细微的，而是巨大的。”这和选项B相反；同样第五段中，“这些差异多多少少证明了人们对于扰人的心理学家、胆小的自然科学家和愤世嫉俗的经济学家这种偏见性的固有印象”。这和选项C意思相反；第二段中说“通过对涉及12个专业超过13000个大学生的数据分析”，说明采样范围很广，人数众多，与选项D相反。故选A。

单选题 According to Anna Vedel, the research may help ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 最后一段第一句“And she said that the findings could help those school pupils who currently have no idea what to study at university, as well as helping academics to plan their lectures.”。
细节题。题目问的是根据安娜·韦德尔的说法，这项研究可以帮助______。最后一段中，安娜提到项目有两个作用，即：给还在头疼专业选择并且希望不仅仅以能力为选择标准的学生提供一些建议；教师也可以更好地了解他的学生的构成状况。浏览四个选项，只有B项属于教师更好了解学生构成的范畴，故选B。