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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.

【C3】（）

A.opposite
B.age
C.type
D.equal

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“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.

【C2】（）

A.only
B.innocent
C.unique
D.potential

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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 is a good editor.

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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.

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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.

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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."

A big flood up in the mountains was the news that someone gave Mr.Hodges one day.

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To stay economically competitive on a global scale，the United States needs 8million more college graduates ___36___That may sound impossible，___37___according to Education at a Glance 2013，the ___38___international report on the state of education ___39___Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development （OECD），the ___40___is still the world leader in producing college graduates.___41___，OECD data ___42___that almost half of the world ’s university graduates come from three countries —the United States，China and Japan.
___43___the 34OECD countries，___44___26percent of the total 255million college-educated ___45___between the ages of 25and 64come from the United States.China comes in a distant second at 12.1percent and Japan is a ___46___third at 11.4percent.
Global prosperity（繁荣）won’t increase if only three nations ___47___higher education output，so it ’s exciting to see that the number of students ___48___to college increased 25percent across all OECD countries ___49___1995and 2012.If that ___50___continues，59percent of young adults in those countries will go on to college，___51___19percent will enter vocational programs over their lifetimes.
The number of students who actually graduate ___52___college has increased as well.In 2012，an average of 39percent of students in OECD nations ___53___college，up from 20percent in 1995.Since college dropouts ___54___the U.S.economy billions of dollars every year，an international increase in graduation ___55___is good news for the entire planet.55处应选择（）

A.fee
B.benefits
C.rates
D.advantages

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To stay economically competitive on a global scale，the United States needs 8million more college graduates ___36___That may sound impossible，___37___according to Education at a Glance 2013，the ___38___international report on the state of education ___39___Tuesday by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development （OECD），the ___40___is still the world leader in producing college graduates.___41___，OECD data ___42___that almost half of the world ’s university graduates come from three countries —the United States，China and Japan.
___43___the 34OECD countries，___44___26percent of the total 255million college-educated ___45___between the ages of 25and 64come from the United States.China comes in a distant second at 12.1percent and Japan is a ___46___third at 11.4percent.
Global prosperity（繁荣）won’t increase if only three nations ___47___higher education output，so it ’s exciting to see that the number of students ___48___to college increased 25percent across all OECD countries ___49___1995and 2012.If that ___50___continues，59percent of young adults in those countries will go on to college，___51___19percent will enter vocational programs over their lifetimes.
The number of students who actually graduate ___52___college has increased as well.In 2012，an average of 39percent of students in OECD nations ___53___college，up from 20percent in 1995.Since college dropouts ___54___the U.S.economy billions of dollars every year，an international increase in graduation ___55___is good news for the entire planet.54处应选择（）

A.give
B.cost
C.bring
D.plan

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