Part IV  Reading Comprehension  (Reading in Depth) (25 minutes)
Section A
Directions: In this section,there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word foreach blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice inthe bank is identified by a letter. Please mark the corresponding letter for eachitem on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may notuse any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 47 to 56 are based onthe following passage.
Worried about what people aresaying about you? Concerns about gossip could influence behavior, including generosity,researchers said.
"As it turns out, the actof gossip can indeed be quite powerful," said Jared Piazza of Queen'sUniversity in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
Piazza and Jesse M. Beringastudied the 47 of 72 college students who were asked to distributetokens(代金券)with a monetary value betweenthemselves and someone else.
Half of the group were 48 told their decision would be discussed with a third party.
"Participants who weretold that the receiver would be communicating their economic decision with thethird party were49 more generous in their allocations of the tokens thanparticipants who were not50 to believe that their decisions would bediscussed," Piazza and Beringa said in the study published in the journal HumanBehavior.
They added that the most 51 strategyfrom an economic standpoint would have been for a student to52 all 10tokens to him or herself, but the threat of gossip seemed to have53theirdecision.
Although gender did not play amajor role in the study, men were slightly more54  than women.
"Allocations of maleswere, on average, slightly greater than allocations of females, although therewere almost twice as many female participants," the researchers 55
A previous study showed thatgossip is more powerful than truth, suggesting people believe what they hear throughthe grapevine even if they have evidence to the56.
A) added  
B) beneficial
C) swayed
D) fabricated
E) reactions
F) made
G) still
H) significantly
I) allocate
J) thought
K) contrary
L) also
M) generous
N) led
O) economical

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