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2013年佛山市普通高中高三教学质量检测（二） 英 语 2013.4 本试卷共10页，满分135分．考试时间120分钟． I语言知识及应用（共两节，满分45分） 第一节完形填空（共15小题；每小题2分，满分30分） 阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从1～15各题所给的A、B、C和D项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。 How can you tell if someones lying? The answer is, theyre probably not. Traditional economics says that people are _1 human beings who will lie if its to their advantage. A recent university study has shown that, actually, were pretty _ 2 --especially when were at home. Researchers in Germany 3 people at home and asked them to toss（投掷） a coin. There was a strong 4 incentive(刺激) to lie about the result: if the coin landed tails-up, the participants would receive money, while if the coin landed heads-up, they would get nothing. Because they were on the phone, they knew there was no 5 _ of getting caught if they lied. And yet people told the 6 . Over hundreds of tosses, a coin will land tails-up about 50% of the time. In this 7 0ver half the people asked (55.6%) said that the coin landed heads-up, which meant they would receive nothing. Previous studies had found that people were more 8 . In those laboratory studies, 75% of people reported a - 9 coin and asked for a reward. So the research team thinks its being in our own homes that makes us play fair, although its not yet clear why. In fact both types of study show people are surprisingly 10 . Even in the laboratory, 25% of people 11 a reward by telling the truth. The researchers say this is because honesty is 12 valued in human society. We care about our 13 and our sense of ourselves as decent(体面的) people. So lying has a psychological 14 and it seems this cost is more important than the Financial benefits of 15 . l. A. poor B. kind C. generous D. reasonable 2.A. honest B. strict C. calm D. afraid 3.A.visited B. saw C. phoned D. caught 4. A. me