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网址： 同等学力英语每日一练（2014-2-17） 2014 年参加同等学力的考生们，学苑教育献上同等学力英语每日一练，我们将每天发布 1--5 道习题，帮助大家夯实基础。大家可随时关注学苑教育同等学力考试频道，我们将第一时间 公布相关考试信息。 In her international bestselling Talk to the Hand, author Lynne Truss argues that common courtesies such as saying “Excuse me” are practically extinct. There are certainly plenty who would agree with her. Is it true? We decided to find out by experiments. In dozens of American cities, our reporters performed two experiments: “door tests”( would anyone hold one open for them?); and “ document drops ” (who would help them retrieve a pile of “accidentally” dropped papers?). Along the way, the reporters encountered all types: men and women of different races, ages, professions, and income levels. While 90 percent of the people passed the door test, only 55 percent passed the document drop. Are people less likely to help others when doing so takes extra effort or time? Not always, the reporters found. Take the pregnant woman who thought nothing of bending down to help us with our papers. Or the woman named Liz who balanced two coffees, her keys and her wallet on a takeout tray with one hand, while picking up papers off the wet pavement with the other .Her reason for helping? “I was there,” she said. Overall, men were the most willing to help, especially when it came to document drops. In those, men offered aid 63 percent of the time, compared to 47 percent among women. Of course, men were not entirely democratic about whom they’d help. All of 1 网址： them held the door for the female reporter, and were more than twice as likely to help her pick up fallen papers than they were to help our male reporter. By far, the most common reason people cited for being willing to go out of their way to help