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"The love of money", St. Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil." "All" may be putting it a bit s

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问题     "The love of money", St. Paul memorably wrote to his protege Timothy, "is the root of all evil." "All" may be putting it a bit strongly, but dozens of psychological studies have indeed shown that people primed to think about money before an experiment are more likely to lie, cheat and steal during the course of that experiment.
    Another well-known saying, ascribed to Benjamin Franklin, is "time is money". If true, that suggests a deduction: that the love of time is a root of evil, too. But a paper just published in Psychological Science by Francesca Gino of Harvard and Cassie Mogilner of the University of Pennsylvania suggests precisely the opposite. They asked a group of volunteers to do a series of what appeared to be aptitude tests. As is often the case in such experiments, though, what the volunteers were told, and what the truth was, were rather different things.
    In the first test they were asked to make, within three minutes, as many coherent sentences as they could out of a set of words they had been presented with. What they were not told was that each of them had been assigned to one of three groups. Some volunteers’ word sets were seeded with ones associated with money, such as "dollars", "financing" and "spend". Some were seeded with words associated with time (eg, "clock", "hours", "moment"). And some were seeded with neither. Thus unknowingly primed, the volunteers were ready for the second test.
    This was mathematical. They were given a sheet of paper with 20 matrices which each contained 12 numbers, two of which added up to ten (for example, 3.81 and 6.19). They had to write down, on a separate answer sheet, how many of these pairs they could manage to find in five minutes. They were also given a packet of money and told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered.
    Crucially, they were not asked to show their workings on the answer sheets—and the matrix sheets, on which those workings might have appeared, carried no identifier and were ostentatiously discarded once the test was done. Nevertheless, by hiding an identification code in a sample matrix on the answer sheet, Dr. Gino and Dr. Mogilner knew which matrix sheet each candidate had been given and thus who had cheated and who had not. They found that 88% of those who had been primed with money-related words in the first test cheated, as did 67% of those given neutral words. Of those primed with time-related words, though, only 42% cheated.
The volunteers are________.
选项 A、required to make as many words as possible
B、conscious of preparation for the second text
C、divided into three groups
D、not rewarded with dollar
答案C
解析 细节题。根据题干关键词定位到文章第三段。第一句关键词make…coherent sentences(造连贯的句子)，A项意为“被要求造尽可能多的词”，其与文中信息不符，故错误。B项“有意识地为第二场测试做准备”与文中thus unknowingly primed，the volunteers were ready for the second test(在毫不知情的情况下，志愿者们就进入了下一轮测试)表述不一致，故排除。D项“将不会得到奖励”与文中…told they could reward themselves with a dollar for each pair they discovered表述相悖，故排除。C项“被分为三组”与原文…had been assigned to one of three groups表述一致。故本题选C。
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