试题题干
Rearrange the following sentences so that they read logically. Put the corresponding letters in a proper sequence in the boxes provided on the answer sheet. The positions of some sentences have been given.
A. Keysar said that all this has to do with how foreign languages affect our emotions.
B. That is, people's reactions are stronger when they use emotion-related words in their native tongue.
C. In others words, they're more likely to kill one person to save five一at least supposedly.
D. This we learned from Boaz Keysar, whose research has shown that using a foreign language affects how people make decisions when faced with moral dilemmas.
E. Thinking and speaking in a foreign language affects our decision-making.
F. Even though love and amour have exactly the same meaning, if you're a native English speaker, you still get a lot more out of love.
G If, for example, you ask people whether they would shoot a bus driver to stop him from running over five people—sacrificing one person to save five—respondents are more likely to choose to shoot the driver if asked in a foreign language than in their native language.
H. But when people use a foreign language, they're more likely to engage in cost-benefit analysis, and less likely to be affected by all sorts of emotional reactions.
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试题解析
全文关键词为foreign language,主要讲的是用外语思考和说话会影响我们的决策。
E句“用外语思考和说话会影响我们的决策”点明主旨,概括全段为首句。D句进一步引出科学家的研究来论证E句的观点。
题干已给出的G句举了一个外语会影响人们的决策的例子。F句说的是外语会影响人们的情感,故两句之间应为过渡句,即A句“凯萨说,所有这些都与外语如何影响我们的情绪有关。”
根据B句中的“That is”可知B句应为补充说明前一句。根据句意“也就是说,当人们在母语中使用与情感相关的词语时,他们的反应会更强烈。”可知跟在F句之后。
H句为转折句“但是,当人们使用外语时,他们更可能进行成本效益分析,而不太可能受到各种情绪反应的影响”后接C句“换言之,他们更可能为了救五个人而杀死一个人”。