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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 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 (滑稽的 ). 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 ’program’ 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.
This passage is a piece of______.
选项 A、exposition
B、description
C、narration
D、argumentation
答案A
解析 推断题。exposition“说明文”，侧重于解释、说明某事物、某现象、某情况等；description“描写文”，描写某人、某物；narration“记叙文”，讲述一个故事；argumentation“议论文”，目的在于使人们信服自己的立场、观点。本文主要介绍了史密斯教授对人们无意中出差错这一现象的研究结果。研究表明，这种现象无论在发生的事情方面，还是在发生的时间方面，都有一定的规律性。本文既不是讲故事，也没有大量的描写，也没有表明作者自己的观点并进行论证，而是说明文。故选A。
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