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精致服务 ·卓越品质 Section I Use of English (20 minutes, 10%) Direction: Read the following text. Choose the best word for each numbered blank from A, B, C or D. People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that __1__ the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by __2__ factors. But Dr Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big _3_ was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. __4__, he theorised that a judge __5__ of appearing too soft __6__crime might be more likely to send someone to prison __7__ he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day. To __8__ this idea, they turned their attention to the university-admissions process. In theory, the __9__ of an applicant should not depend on the few others __10__ randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the truth was __11__. He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews __ 12__ by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had __ 13__ applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale __ 14__ numerous factors into consideration. The scores were __15__ used in conjunction with an applicant‟s score on the GMAT, a standardised exam which is _16_out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her. Dr Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one __17__ that, then the score for the next applicant would__ 18__ by an average of 0.075 points. This might sound small, but to__ 19__the effects of such a decrease a