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2018 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（一 ) Section I Use of English Directions ： Read the following text 。 Choose the best word (s) for each numbered blank and mark A ， B ， C or D on the ANSWER SHEET 。 （10 points ） Trust is a tricky business. On the one hand, its a necessary condition 1 many worthwhile things ： child care, friendships, etc 。 On the other hand, putting your 2, in the wrong place often carries a high 3. 4 ， why do we trust at all? Well, because it feels good. 5 people place their trust in an individual or an institution, their brains release oxytocin ， a hormone that 6 pleasurable feelings and triggers the herding instruct that prompts humans to 7 with one another. Scientists have found that exposure 8 this hormone puts us in a trusting 9: In a Swiss study ， researchers sprayed oxytocin into the noses of half the subjects; those subjects were ready to lend significantly higher amounts of money to strangers than were their 10 who inhaled something else. 11 for us, we also have a sixth sense for dishonesty that may 12 us. A Canadian study found that children as young as 14 months can differentiate 13 a credible person and a dishonest one 。 Sixty toddlers were each 14 to an adult tester holding a plastic container. The tester would ask ， “Whats in here ？ before looking into the container ， smiling ， and exclaiming, “Wow!” Each subject was then invited to look 15. Half of them found a toy ； the other half 16 the container was empty — and realized the tester had 17 them. Among the children who had not been tricked, the majority were 18 to cooperate with the tester in learning a new skill, demonstrating that they trusted his leadership. 19, only five of the 30 children paired with the “20 ”tester participated in a followup activity 。