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四级模拟试题三十三PART III CLOZEDecide which of the choices given below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blanks. Life at the bottom is nasty, brutish and short. For this reason, heartless folk might (31)______ that people in the lower social classes will be more self-interested and less inclined (32)______ consider the welfare of others (33)______ upper-class individuals, who can (34)______ a certain noblesse oblige. A recent study, however, challenges this idea. Experiments by Paul Piff and his colleagues at the University of California, Berkeley, reported this week in the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, suggest precisely the (35)______. It is the poor, not the rich, who are willing to charity. In their first experiment, Dr. Piff and his team (36)______115 people. To start with, these volunteers were asked to engage (37)______ a series of fake activities, in order to create a (38)______ impression of the purpose of the research. Eventually, each was told he had been (39)______ with an anonymous partner (40)______ in a different room. Participants were given ten credits and (41)______ that their task was to decide how many of these credits they wanted to (42)______ for themselves and how many (if any) they wished to (43)______ to their partner. They were also told that the credits they had at the (44)______ of the game would be worth real money and (45)______ their partners would have no ability to (46)______ with the outcome. A week before the game was run, participants were asked their ethnic backgrounds, sex, age, frequency of (47)______ at religious services and socioeconomic status. During this part of the study, they were (48)______ with a drawing of a ladder with ten rungs on it. Each rung (49)______ people of different levels of education, income and occupational status. They were asked to place an “X” on the rung they felt corresponded to (50)______ they stood relative to others in their own community.