单选题According to the passage, it is possible for us to tell one type of person from another because ______.

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单选题Faced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great confidence in, surely. But several lines of research show that our instincts about where to turn to for counsel are often not completely correct. My research looks at prejudices that affect how people use advice, including why they often blindly follow recommendations from people who—as far as they know—are as knowledgeable as they are. In studies I conducted with Don Moore of Camegie Mellon University, for example, I found that people tend to overvalue advice when the problem they're addressing is hard and to undervalue it when the problem is easy. In our experiments, subjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures, some of which were in focus and some of which were unclear. For each picture, subjects guessed twice: the first time without advice and the second time with input from another participant. When the pictures were in focus, we found, subjects tended to discount the advice; apparently, they were confident in their ability to guess correctly. When the pictures were unclear, subjects leaned heavily on the advice of others and seemed less secure about their initial opinion. Because they misjudged the value of the advice they received—consistently overvaluing or undervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the problem—our subjects did not make the best guesses overall. They would have done better if they'd considered the advice equally, and to a moderate degree, on both hard and easy tasks. Another advice-related prejudice I've found compels people to overvalue advice that they pay for. In one study I conducted, subjects answered different sets of questions about American history. Before answering some of the questions, they could get advice on the correct answer from another subject whom they knew was no more expert than they were. In one version of the experiment, people could get advice for free, while in another version, they paid for it. When they paid for advice, people tended to have firm belief in it, I suspect, by a combination of sunk-cost preju-dice and the nearly instinctual belief that cost and quality are linked.

单选题Whosevideoisit?A.Cindy's.B.Cindy'ssister's.C.John's.D.Theman's.

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单选题"Family" is of course an elastic word. And in different countries it has different meanings. But when British people say that their society is based on family life, they are thinking of "family" in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both man and woman, marriage means leaving one's parents and starting one's own life. The man's first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife's to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and their alone. Neither the wife's parents nor the husband's, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with them—they are their own masters. Readers of novels like Jane Austen's Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times, marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl's parents, that is, it was the parents' duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents' home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry (嫁妆). It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results. A girl chooses her own husband, and she gets no dowry. Every coin has two sides; independence for girls is no exception. But it may be a good thing for all of the girls, as their social status are much higher and they are no longer the subordinate (部下，下级) of their parents and husbands.

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单选题Questions 15 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard.

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单选题Text In the next 40 years, the percentage of people in the United States over the age of 65 is expected to double. (26) the needs of this part of the population is a (27) to the ingenuity or genius of America. To a (28) degree, a society is judged by (29) it cares for those who can no (30) care for themselves. High technology (31) the most startling advances in helping the elderly. In (32) to the well-known artificial heart implantation, there are efforts that have already started to (33) artificial lungs, livers, and bones. An electric ear is (34) seventy-five percent effective. They will (35) better medical care by (36) very small dose of drugs into the body continuously. For the older people, even the simplest tasks can be difficult, (37) impossible to perform, American businesses have responded (38) those older people's needs with a (39) of inexpensive but useful (40) . Companies have designed extra-efficient can openers that (41) people whose hands have become (42) weak to open cans easily. There are devices that allow people to pull on a pair of socks (43) straining their backs. Combs with long handles and U-shaped back brushes are (44) for those who can not reach as far as they could (45) they were young.

单选题According to the passage some cultural minorities have ______.

单选题The moral decline of American society is caused manly by ______.

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单选题When a man suffers 6'om depression, it is typical of him to ______.