The research found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are inversely related : when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be unfeeling.
研究發現在評斷他人時，很多人往往抱持著一個理所當然的觀點那就是能力和熱情是成反比的：也就是說當他們察覺的一個人能力很強時他們往往會認為他(她)必定是有冷酷無情的傾向
來源：GRE考古題
原題：
The research found that in assessing others, many people hold an unconscious view that competence and warmth are (i)_____: when they perceive a person to be highly capable, they infer that he or she must have a tendency to be (ii)_____.
| Blank(i) | Blank(ii) |
| (A) equally important |
(D) ambitious |
| (B) mutually |
(E) unfeeling |
| (C) inversely related |
(F) disingenuous |
解題方式：
這是GRE傳統的連動考法，兩選項互相牽制，所以先看到『 : 』分號表示補充解釋和說明前句，所以邏輯同向，然後整句讀完比較敏感的地方是competence=highly capable，所以可以推論competence and warmth這個平行結構中的warmth應該是跟Blank(ii)友所對應的，所以找一個跟溫不溫暖有關的詞，(E)unfeeling
所以順一下『 : 』後頭的內容可以發現highly capable帶來unfeeling這裡應該是成反比的，接下來回推第一空格，既然剛剛推出warmth VS. unfeeling那麼Blank(i)只能填入相反狀態了(C)inversely related
單字：
ambitious (adj) 有野心的
disingenuous (adj) 不誠實的
mutually (adv) 互相地
unconscious (adj) 不知不覺的
competence (n) 勝任，能力
warmth (n) 熱情
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