Question

閱讀下面短文，根據所讀內容在表格中的空白處填入恰當的單詞。

注意：每個空格只填一個單詞。

It’s necessary to use different ways to communicate for different purposes. Study, made by Jeff Hancock of Cornell University in New York, has found that people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in e-mails.

Hancock made an investigation by asking 30 students to keep a communication diary for a week. In it they noted the number of conversations or e-mail exchanges they had lasting more than 10 minutes, and how many lies they told. Hancock then worked out the number of lies per conversation for each medium. He found that lies made up 14% of e-mails, 21% of instant messages, 27% of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37% of phone calls.

His results, to be presented at the conferences on human computer interaction in Vienna, Austria, in April, have surprised psychologists.

Hancock says it is very important and effective whether a conversation is being recorded and could be reread, and whether it occurs in real time. People appear to be afraid to lie when they know that they will be responsible for what they have said in the conversation. This is why fewer lies appear in e-mail than on the phone.

People are even more likely to lie in real time—in an instant message or phone call. Many lies are sudden or immediate responses to demands that they don’t expect.”

Hancock hopes his research will help many a company work out the best ways for their employees to communicate. For instance, the phone might be the best medium for selling their products where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth. But given his results, work assessment, where honesty is regarded as more important than others, might be best done using e-mail.

Hancock’s study on people 1. in different ways of communications
2. drawn from the statistics	Lies 3. when the communicating ways change from e-mails to instant messages, to face-to-face interactions and to phone calls.
Reasons why people lie or don’t	●People won’t lie when their 4. are recorded and reread, or when they know they should take the 5. for what they have said. ●People lie in real time mostly because they have to answer 6. questions without hesitation.
Benefits that 7. can have from the study	●Using telephones for 8. because their employees can stretch the truth. ●Using e-mails for work assessment because their employees must say what they have done 9. .
Inference from the study	Suitable media should be chosen for different 10. purposes.

 

Answer 1

1.lying

2.Conclusion

3.increase/grow

4.conversations

5.responsibility

6.unexpected

7.companies

8.sales

9.honestly

10.communication/communicating

【解析】

試題分析：在生活中，借助于現代科技，人們可以有很多種交談方法可以選擇，像寫郵件、打電話、使用即時聊天工具等。顯然，人們?yōu)椴煌�目的選擇不一樣的交談方法是很有必要的。一項研究顯示，人們使用不同的交談方法，他們說謊的概率也各不相同。

1.people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in e-mails”可知，人們打電話時候說謊的概率比寫郵件高兩倍，可知文章講的是人們在交談中使用的撒謊的方法，這里用現在分詞形式作后置定語，故填lying。

2.He found that lies made up 14% of e-mails, 21% of instant messages, 27% of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37% of phone calls.”可知，研究發(fā)現，被試在郵件里說謊的占14%，即時消息在里說謊占21%，面對面交談時說謊占27%，電話里說謊占37%，這是得出的結論，conclusion結論，需要大寫，故填Conclusion。

3.He found that lies made up 14% of e-mails, 21% of instant messages, 27% of face-to-face interactions and an astonishing 37% of phone calls.”可知，從郵件到即時消息，到面對面交談再到打電話，說謊的比例逐漸增加，故填increase/grow。

4.People appear to be afraid to lie when they know that they will be responsible for what they have said in the conversation.”可知，當談話中所說的話被錄音或能再次認讀時，說謊的概率就會大大降低，故填conversations。

5.when they know that they will be responsible for what they have said”可知，當人們知道需要對說的話負責時，他們往往不會說謊，文中用的be responsible for，這里是take responsibility for，需要轉換單詞的詞性，故填responsibility。

6.People are even more likely to lie in real time...Many lies are sudden or immediate responses to demands that they don’t expect.”可知，在電話或即時信息中，人們說謊是為了應對對方提出的出乎意料的問題，文中用的動詞原形expect，這里需要用過去分詞作定語，故填unexpected。

7.Hancock hopes his research will help many a company work out the best ways...”可知，很多公司可能會因這項研究而受益，many a+名詞單數，意為“許多”，故填companies。

8.the phone might be the best medium for selling their products where employees are encouraged to stretch the truth.”可知，舉的例子是電話銷售，文中用的是動詞sell的動名詞形式，這里需要轉換為名詞sales，故填sales。

9.work assessment, where honesty is regarded as more important than others, might be best done using e-mail”可知，在工作評估中，真誠最重要，可以改用寫郵件的方法，這里需要修飾動詞done，用副詞形式，故填honestly。

10.It’s necessary to use different ways to communicate for different purposes.”可知，為了不同的目的而使用不同的交談方式是很有必要的，故填communication/communicating。

考點：科學研究類短文閱讀