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  3. What is exactly a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a

What is exactly a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a

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问题     What is exactly a lie? Is it anything we say which we know is untrue? Or is it something more than that? For example, suppose a friend wants to borrow some money from you, you say: I wish I could help you but I’m short of money myself. In fact, you are not short of money, but your friend is in the habit of not paying his debts and you don’t want to hurt his feelings by reminding him of this. Is this really a lie?
    A scientific study of lying shows women are better liars than men, particularly when telling a "white lie" such as when a woman at a party tells another woman that she likes her dress when she really thinks it looks terrible. However, this is only one side of the story. Other researches show that men are more likely to tell more serious lies, such as making a promise which they have no intention of fulfilling. This is the kind of lie politicians and businessmen are supposed to be particularly skilled at: the lie from which the liar hopes to profit or gain in some way.
    Research has also been done into the way people’s behavior changes in a number of small, apparently unimportant ways when they lie. It has been found that if they are sitting down at the same time, they tend to move about in their chairs more than usual. To the trained observer they are saying "I wish I were somewhere else now".  
This passage tells us that______.
选项 A、telling lies is often necessary in order to avoid being defeated
B、telling lies is often bad because people ought not to be dishonest
C、telling lies is sometimes necessary in order not to hurt someone else’s feelings
D、telling lies is not bad at all in most cases
答案C
解析 这是一道推断题。文中从探讨谎言的准确定义引出了主题，即有时为了避免伤害别人的感情，说谎也是必要的。为此文章在第一段中举了一个例子，即对一位爱借钱不还的朋友来说，为了避免伤害他的感情，说谎是必要的；在第二二段中作者对女人的“white lie”，即为避免伤害他人感情而说的无关紧要的谎话进行了举例和分析。由此我们可以推断出，选项C是这篇文章想告诉我们的道理。
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