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People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this migh

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问题     People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that【B1】______the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by【B2】______factors. But Dr. Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big【B3】______was leading decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of information they were working with. 【B4】______, he theorised that a judge【B5】______of appearing too soft【B6】______crime might be more likely to send someone to prison【B7】______he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.
    To【B8】______this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process. In theory, the【B9】______of an applicant should not depend on the few others【B10】______randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr. Simonsohn suspected the truth was【B11】______.
    He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews【B12】______by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had【B13】______applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale【B14】______numerous factors into consideration. The scores were【B15】______used in conjunction with an applicant’ s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is【B16】______out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.
    Dr. Simonsohn found if the score of the previous candidate in a daily series of interviewees was 0.75 points or more higher than that of the one【B17】______that, then the score for the next applicant would【B18】______by an average of 0.075 points. This might sound small, but to【B19】______the effects of such a decrease a candidate would need 30 more GMAT points than it would otherwise have been【B20】______.
【B15】
选项 A、instead
B、then
C、ever
D、rather
答案B
解析 考查逻辑关系。根据本句提示be used in conjunction with“与…结合在一起使用”，以便决定是否接受申请者，可以推断答案为B．then，具有承接之意。其他项均不符合题意。
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