单项选择题X 纠错 “On the Internet, nobody knows youre a dog,” read the title of a famous Peter Steiner cartoon,【C1】______nowhere is it truer than Internet dating. The experience is by now familiar: the【C2】______mate who seemed just your【C3】______in a profile turns out to be a disappointment in person. There may be ways, however, to【C4】______a lying person before you find yourself【C5】______from him or her at a table lit by candles. Researchers from Cornell University and the University of Wisconsin-Madison compared the【C6】______heights, weights, and ages of 78 Internet dating participants to their profiles on four dating websites. They noticed several【C7】______from people who were less than【C8】______. For example, they were less likely to【C9】______to themselves as 'I'; used indirect expressions,【C10】______'not boring' instead of 'exciting' to describe themselves; and stuck to【C11】______descriptions. 'People do this because they want to【C12】______themselves from their misleading statements,' explained Catalina Toma, an author of the study, in a statement. Using these indications, the researchers【C13】______identified liars about 65 percent of the time. People lied most frequently about their【C14】______, with women slimming down, on average, by 8.5 pounds, and men by 1.5 pounds. At least half the subjects【C15】______their height, and nearly 20 percent changed their age. Despite the【C16】______of lies, volunteers proved【C17】______at catching them. Fortunately, Toma and the teams research【C18】______up the possibility of a software that could【C19】______lies for you, though Internet dating participants should be careful what they wish for—nearly everyone in the study lied in some【C20】______way.
A.refer
B.confine
C.contribute
D.dedicate
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Mr.Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper.(霍奇斯先生是一家小报社的老板兼编辑。)He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.One day,he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just comethrough a big flood in a village up in the his paper that evening.He was delighted to see that no otherpaper had got hold of the story.Unfortunately,however,angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked,so in thenext day’s paper he wrote:"We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the villageof Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood.Today,we are proud to say that our newspaper is thefirst one to bring our readers the news that yesterday’s story was quite false."
Mr.Hodges is a good editor.判断题
Mr.Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper.(霍奇斯先生是一家小报社的老板兼编辑。)He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.One day,he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just comethrough a big flood in a village up in the his paper that evening.He was delighted to see that no otherpaper had got hold of the story.Unfortunately,however,angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked,so in thenext day’s paper he wrote:"We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the villageof Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood.Today,we are proud to say that our newspaper is thefirst one to bring our readers the news that yesterday’s story was quite false."
Mr.Hodges found later the flood was really terrible.判断题
Mr.Hodges was the owner and editor of a small newspaper.(霍奇斯先生是一家小报社的老板兼编辑。)He always tried to bring his readers the latest news.One day,he received an exciting telephone call from someone who claimed that he had just comethrough a big flood in a village up in the his paper that evening.He was delighted to see that no otherpaper had got hold of the story.Unfortunately,however,angry telephone calls soon showed that he had been tricked,so in thenext day’s paper he wrote:"We were the first and only newspaper to report yesterday that the villageof Greenbridge had been destroyed by a flood.Today,we are proud to say that our newspaper is thefirst one to bring our readers the news that yesterday’s story was quite false."
After Mr.Hodges received the news,he published it right away.