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請依下文回答第 11 題至第 15 題：Do you often feel that “If anything can go wrong, it will go wrong”? If yes, then you are living under theinfluence of Murphy’s Law.Many people interpret this law as a pessimistic view of life. 11 the theory is a message of hope, acall to excellence. In 1949, the US Air Force was running a test to study the human tolerance for G-forcesduring rapid deceleration. Engineer Edward A. Murphy designed a special harness that had 16 sensors, eachof which could be installed in two ways. At the end of one crucial experiment, it was found that the sensorsprovided a zero reading. Murphy’s assistant had installed all of them 12 , with each sensor wiredbackwards. In a voice like thunder, the 13 engineer complained, “If there are two or more ways to dosomething and one of those results in a catastrophe, then someone will do it that way!” This is the originalform of Murphy’s Law. Later Murphy 14 the sensors so that they could be installed in only one way.As Murphy’s Law spread across the world, it was taken as a principle 15 pessimism. Murphy wasunhappy with this misinterpretation. The optimistic law aims to crystallize a principle: one should alwaysassume the worst scenario when designing objects and minimize human error.
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(A)No wonder
(B)In fact
(C)For one thing
(D)At least

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