填空题Section A
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each 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 in the bank is identified by a letter.Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
Questions 12 to 21 are based on the following passage.
　　It's a 12 often requested in lonely hearts ads and scientists have now shown that a good sense of humor is 13 for women, but not men, in choosing a romantic partner. A woman is even willing to 14 other shortcomings in a man if he can make her laugh, researchers said on Tuesday." Our results suggest that humor can 15 affect desirability as a relationship partner but this effect is most likely to occur when men use humor and are 16 by women," said Eric Bressler, of Westfield State College in Massachusetts.
　　Bressler and Sigal Balshine, of McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, demonstrated in an experiment that a good sense of humor -- G.S.O.H. as it appears in personal ads -- does make a 17 They showed groups of women pictures of two equally 18 men and presented autobiographical statements that were either funny or serious. After 19 the experiment and showing groups of men photographs of two women, they asked both sexes to select who they would choose as a romantic partner. The humorous people were seen as more socially adept but less trustworthy, honest and intelligent. Men did not select the funny person but women did."Women chose funny men as relationship partners despite often 20 them as less honest and intelligent," the researchers said in the study published in the journal Evolution and Human Behavior. Funny men were preferred even if their humor was 21 , the researchers added.
A．difference   F．unimportant   K．positively
B．evaluated   G．rehearsaling   L．reversing
C．rating   H．attractive   M．minorly
D．unsophisticated   I．important   N．overlook
E．trait   J．overtake   O．chasing

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