四六级考试

【单选题】The producers of instant coffee found their product strongly resisted in the market places despite their obvious advantages. Furthermore, the advertising expenditure for instant coffee was far greater than that for regular coffee.Efforts were (62) to find the cause of the consumers’ seemingly unreasonable (63) to the product. The reason given by most people was (64) for the taste. The producers suspected that there might be (65) reasons, however. This was confirmed by one of (66) research’s classic studies, one often cited in the trade. Mason Haire, of the University ofCalifornia, (67) two shopping lists that were identical except for one (68) . There were six items common to both lists, carrots, baking power, bread, canned peaches and potatoes, (69) the brands or amounts specifieD、The seventh item, in the fifth (70) both fists, read "! pounD、Maxwell House coffee" on the list and "Nescafe instant coffee" on the (71) One list was given to each person in a group of fifty (72) , and the other list to those in another group of the same (73) .The women were asked to study their lists and then to describe (74) they could, the kind of woman (personality and character) (75) would draw up that shopping list. (76) half of those who had received the list including instant coffee (77) a housewife who was lazy and a poor planner. (78) , only one woman in the other group described the housewife, who had (79) regular coffee on her list, (80) lazy; only six of that group suggested that she was a poor planner.Eight women felt that the instant-coffee user was probably not a good wife! No one in the other group (81) such a conclusion about the housewife who intended to buy regular coffee.
A．motivation
B．intention
C．investigation
D．determination

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
[解析] 词汇辨义题。本句的意思是：“这一猜测通过一项著名的动机研究结果而得到证实。”四个选项中，B)intention“意图，目的”；C)investigation“调查，研究”；D) determination“决心，果断”；A)motivation“动机”，例女口：The stronger the motivation，the more quickly a person will learn a foreign language．(一个人学外语的动机越高，那么他就学得越快。)综合分析，只有motivation符合句子意思。因此选项A为正确答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>