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Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnig

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问题      Professor Smith recently persuaded 35 people, 23 of them women, to keep a diary of all their absent-minded actions for a fortnight. When he came to analyze their embarrassing lapses(差错)in a scientific report, he was surprised to find that nearly all of them fell into a few groupings. Nor did the lapses appear to be entirely random.
     One of the women, for instance, on leaving her house for work one morning threw her dog her earrings and tried to fix a dog biscuit on her ear. "The explanation for this is that the brain is like a computer," explains the professor. "People program themselves to do certain activities regularly. It was the woman’s custom every morning to throw her dog two biscuits and then put on her earrings. But somehow the action got reversed in the program." About one in twenty of the incidents the volunteers reported were these"program assembly failures".
     Altogether the volunteers logged 433 unintentional actions that they found themselves doing--an average of twelve each. There appear to be peak periods in the day when we are at our zaniest (荒谬可笑的) . These are two hours some time between eight a.m. and noon, between four and six p.m. with a smaller peak between eight and ten p.m. "Among men the peak seems to be when a changeover in brain ’programs’ occurs, as for instance between going to and from work." Women on average reported slightly more lapses--12.5 compared with 10.9 for men--probably because they were more reliable reporters.
     A startling finding of the research is that the absent-minded activity is a hazard of doing things in which we are skilled. Normally, you would expect that skill reduces the number of errors we make. But trying to avoid silly slips by concentrating more could make things a lot worse--even dangerous.
"Program assembly failures" (Para. 2) refers to the phenomenon that people
选项 A、often fail to program their routines beforehand.
B、tend to make mistakes when they are in a hurry.
C、unconsciously change the sequence of doing things.
D、are likely to mess things up if they are too tired.
答案C
解析 词义题。根据例子中那位女士的情况，不难理解program assembly failures是指行为颠倒之意，正好与C项中的change the sequence相符。文中并没有说fail to program their routines beforehand的行为是经常发生的，所以A不对；B和D符合人们的一般常识，但是文章并未提起，所以不对。  
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