People are, on the whole, poor at considering background information when making individual decisions. At first glance this might seem like a strength that (1)______ the ability to make judgments which are unbiased by (2)______ factors. 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 information they were working with. (4)______, he theorised that a judge (5)______ of appearing too soft (6)______ crime might be more likely to send someone to prison (7)______ he had already sentenced five or six other defendants only to forced community service on that day.

    To (9)______ this idea, he turned to the university-admissions process. In theory, the (8)______ of an applicant should not depend on the few others (10)______ randomly for interview during the same day, but Dr. Simonsohn suspected the truth was (11)______.

He studied the results of 9,323 MBA interviews (12)______ by 31 admissions officers. The interviewers had (13)______ applicants on a scale of one to five. This scale (14)______ numerous factors 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 found 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 for the next applicant would (18)______ by an average of 0.075 points. This might sound small, but to (19)______ the effects of such a decrease a candidate could need 30 more GMAT points than would otherwise have been (20)______.

答案精析：动词辨析题。四个选项均为被动语态，原文为which引导的定语从句，大意为：GMAT是一种_______有800分的标准化考试。与上文exam和下文points对应的词义只有C选项，即指该考试满分为800分，代入后符合题意。

错项排除：主语是一种考试，而考试本身无法进行选择、通过或介绍，因为这些动词的主语通常是人，故排除。

长难句分析：The scores were then used in conjunction with an applicant’s score on the Graduate Management Admission Test, or GMAT, a standardised exam which is marked out of 800 points, to make a decision on whether to accept him or her.

本句主干为The scores were then used，为主谓结构，使用了被动语态。in conjunction with an applicant’s score是方式状语，表明使用这些分数的方式。GMAT是Graduate Management Admission Test的缩写形式，a standardised exam是GMAT的同位语，which引导的定语从句修饰a standardised exam，to make a decision是目的状语，表明使用这些分数的目的。

句意为：然后这些得分与管理学研究生入学考试，或简称为GMAT——一种满分为800分的标准化考试——的成绩一起决定申请者是否会被录取。