Directions:
Section I  Use of English
Read the fllowing text. Choose the best word(s) fr each numbered blank and mark
A, B, C or D on the ANSWER SHEET. (lOpoints)
People are, on the whole, poor at considering background infrmation when
making individual decisions. At frst glance this might seem like a strength that
_1_ the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by  2  fctors. But Dr
Uri Simonsohn speculated that an inability to consider the big -3_ was leading
decision-makers to be biased by the daily samples of infrmation they were working
with.  4  , he theorised that a judge  5  of appearing too sof  6  cnme
might be more likely to send someone to prison _7_  he had already sentenced fve
or six other defndants only to frced community service on that day.
To  8  this idea, he tured to the university-admissions process. In theory,
the _9_ of an applicant should not depend on the fw others_ randomly fr
interview during the same day, but Dr Simonsohn suspected the trth was  11
He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews  12  by 31 admissions
ofcers. The interviewers had  13  applicants on a scale of one to fve. This
scale  14  numerous fctors into consideration. The scores were  15  used in
conjunction with an applicant's score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or
GMAT, a standardised exam which is  16  out of 800 points, to make a decision
on whether to accept him or her.
Dr Simonsohn fund 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  17  that, then
the score fr the next applicant would  18  by an average of 0.075 points. This
might sound small, but to  19  the efects of such a decrease a candidate would
need 30 more GMTpoints than would otherwise have been  20
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