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Passage 1  Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was  1 of them. Likewise Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates. They were  2 “laterborns” —that is, they had at least one older sibling — brother or sister — when they were born.  In fact, laterborns are up to 15 times more  3 than firstborns to resist authority and  4 new ground, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.  In his book “Born To Rebel” being released this week, Sulloway claims that 5 someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important  6 shaping personality—more significant  7 gender, race, nationality or class.  He  8 26 years studying the lives—and birth orders—of 6,566 historical figures to  9 his conclusions.  A laterborn himself, Sulloway first posed how birth order  10 personality as a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University.  “ 11 could a somewhat commonplace student at Cambridge become the most revolutionary thinker in the 19th century?” he said.  Darwin, the first to  12 the belief  13 God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six 14 . Most of his opponents were firstborns.  Sulloway’s theory held  15 with Copernicus, the first astronomer to propose that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.


时间:2022-10-08 14:33 关键词: 全国英语等级考试(PETS) 全国英语等级考试(四级)

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1. one 句意:一些人生来就具有反叛精神,而查尔斯·达尔文就是他们中的一个。空格部分位于of them,应该填入代词one。<br> 2. all 前文提到了四个人物,这里应该指“全,都”的肯定意思,故填入all。<br> 3. likely be likely to do sth.为固定搭配,意思为“更有可能做某事”。这里使用了比较结构:be more likely than sb. to do sth.比某人更有可能做某事。因此该空填入likely。<br> 4. break 分析句子结构resist authourity后面使用了and连接空格部分,也就是说空格部分与resist authority并列,因此应该填入意思相近的词语。break new ground为固定搭配,意思为“开辟新天地”,符合该处语境。因此本题填入break。<br> 5. whether Sulloway claims that后面的宾语从句中,其主语为主语从句“…someone is an older or younger sibling”,whether...or...引导主语从句,表示“是……还是……”,符合此处语境,意思为“一个人是家里较年长的孩子还是较小的孩子”。因此此处填入whether。<br> 6. factor 句意:索罗卫声称,一个人是家里较年长的孩子还是较小的孩子,是形成性格的最重要的因素。根据语境可知,这里指的是形成性格最重要的因素,因此填入factor。<br> 7. than 此处为比较级结构,通过significant前面的more可知,此处需填入than。<br> 8. spent spend...(in) doing sth. 表示花时间做某事。此处为发生在过去的事情,因此填入spent。<br> 9. reach/draw reach a conclusion/ draw a conclusion得出结论。<br> 10. affected/shaped/influenced 根据上下文语境可知,此句指出生顺序对性格的影响,因此填入affected、shaped或者influenced等词。<br> 11. How 根据上文中提到的“how birth order...”,可知,这里应该填入how。注意首字母大写。<br> 12. challenge/question 根据上下文语境和常识可知,达尔文的进化论挑战了上帝创造人类的想法,因此此处填入changllege、question等词。<br> 13. that 空格后面为belief的同位语从句,因此空格处需填入that。<br> 14. children/siblings 本文通篇在讨论出生顺序对个人的影响,根据语境,此处应该指达尔文是六个孩子中排行第五。因此此处填入children或者siblings。<br> 15. true 该句表达的是索罗卫的理论用在哥白尼和比尔·盖茨身上都是正确的。hold true for/with...对/在……适用。因此填入true。