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网址： 同等学力英语每日一练（2014-2-17 2014年参加同等学力的考生们，学苑教育献上同等学力英语每日一练，我们将每天发布1--5 道习题，帮助大家夯实基础。大家可随时关注学苑教育同等学力考试频道，我们将第一时间 公布相关考试信息。 In her international bestselling Talk to the Hand, author Lynne Truss argues that common courtesies suchas saying “Excuseme” arepractically extinct.There are certainly plenty who would agree with her. Is ittrue?We decidedtofindoutby experiments. IndozensofAmerican cities, ourreportersperformed twoexperiments: “doortests”(would anyoneholdoneopen for them?); and “document drops”(who would help them retrieve a pile of “accidentally” dropped papers?). Along the way, the reporters encountered all types: men and women of different races, ages, professions, and income levels. While 90 percent of the people passed the door test, only 55 percent passed the document drop. Are people less likely to help others when doing so takes extra effortortime?Not always,thereporters found.Take thepregnantwomanwho thought nothingofbendingdowntohelpuswithourpapers.OrthewomannamedLizwhobalanced two coffees, her keys and her wallet on a takeout traywith one hand, while picking uppapersoffthewetpavementwiththeother.Herreasonforhelping? “Iwasthere,” she said. Overall, men were themost willing to help, especially when it came to document drops. Inthose,men offeredaid63percentofthetime,comparedto47percentamong women. Of course, men were not entirely democratic about whom they’d help. All of 1 网址： them held the door for the female reporter, and were more than twice as likely to help her pick up fallen papers than they were to help our male reporter. By far,themost commonreasonpeople citedforbeingwilling togooutoftheir way to help others was their upbringing. “It’s the way Iwas raised.” said one young woman who held a door open despite struggling with her