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[研究生入学考试题库]考研英语(一)模拟151 Section Ⅰ Use of English How do people decide whether to trust a countrys investment climate, or the quality of its goods and services 1 , to a degree: places with skilled workers and high technology tend to make 2 stuff; countries with clear laws and clean politicians are more trustworthy. You might suspect, 3 , that plain prejudice also affects trade and capital flows. Three economists have found evidence of 4 that.  As a first 5 , the trio looked at Eurobarometer surveys, which frequently ask EU citizens how much they trust people from various countries. To the authors, it is much more 6 that different countries give different answers. When two sets of people 7 a countrys reliability differently, cultural 8 may be at work. Because trading with another country may also 9 trust, the economists had to 10 out which causes the other. So 11 rely only on Europeans direct answers about trust, they looked at these in 12 with three long-run factors that might affect prejudices—religion, a history of wars and widespread genetic differences—and used these to try to 13 the effects of cultural biases on trust and trade.  The economists find that cultural biases do drive wide variations 14 trust among European countries. And after 15 for other factors (such as geography) that also foster trade, they claim to show that culturally driven trust does 16 trade and investment patterns. A one-standard-deviation increase in their trust measure is 17 with a(n) 18 to trade between two countries of 30%, and a rise in bilateral foreign direct investment of as much as 75%. They also find that high education levels and more information tend to 19 these effects by correcting misconceptions about unfamiliar countries. 20 ignorance, it seems, does even more damage than free traders thought. 1.A.Suppose