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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

13. A. based          B. put                  C. focused       D. passed

14. A. more than      B. less than            C. rather than   D. other than

15. A. referred to    B. listened to          C. turned to     D. stuck to

16. A. soon           B. presently            C. far           D. long

17.A. strength        B. energy               C. effect        D. force

18. A. as             B. for                  C. to            D. by

19. A. absent         B. present              C. gone          D. missing

20.A. achieve           B. earn                     C. acquire       D. win