Question

阅读下面短文，根据所读内容在表格中的空白处填入恰当的单词。

注意：每个空格只填一个单词。

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】

试题分析：在生活中，借助于现代科技，人们可以有很多种交谈方法可以选择，像写邮件、打电话、使用即时聊天工具等。显然，人们为不同目的选择不一样的交谈方法是很有必要的。一项研究显示，人们使用不同的交谈方法，他们说谎的概率也各不相同。

1.people are twice as likely to tell lies in phone conversations as they are in e-mails”可知，人们打电话时候说谎的概率比写邮件高两倍，可知文章讲的是人们在交谈中使用的撒谎的方法，这里用现在分词形式作后置定语，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，研究发现，被试在邮件里说谎的占14%，即时消息在里说谎占21%，面对面交谈时说谎占27%，电话里说谎占37%，这是得出的结论，conclusion结论，需要大写，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，从邮件到即时消息，到面对面交谈再到打电话，说谎的比例逐渐增加，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，当谈话中所说的话被录音或能再次认读时，说谎的概率就会大大降低，故填conversations。

5.when they know that they will be responsible for what they have said”可知，当人们知道需要对说的话负责时，他们往往不会说谎，文中用的be responsible for，这里是take responsibility for，需要转换单词的词性，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，在电话或即时信息中，人们说谎是为了应对对方提出的出乎意料的问题，文中用的动词原形expect，这里需要用过去分词作定语，故填unexpected。

7.Hancock hopes his research will help many a company work out the best ways...”可知，很多公司可能会因这项研究而受益，many a+名词单数，意为“许多”，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，举的例子是电话销售，文中用的是动词sell的动名词形式，这里需要转换为名词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，在工作评估中，真诚最重要，可以改用写邮件的方法，这里需要修饰动词done，用副词形式，故填honestly。

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

考点：科学研究类短文阅读