单选题 Are some people born clever and others born stupid? Or is intelligence developed by our environment and our experiences? Strangely【C1】______, the answer to both these questions is yes. To some extent our intelligence is given us at birth, and no amount of special education can make a genius【C2】______a child born with low intelligence. On the other hand, a child who lives in boring environment will develop his intelligence less than the one who lives in rich and varied surroundings. Thus the【C3】______of a person" s intelligence are fixed at birth, but whether or not he reaches those limits will depend on his【C4】______This view, not held by most experts, can be supported in a number of ways. It is easy to show that intelligence is to some extent【C5】______we are born with. The closer the blood relationship between two people, the closer they are likely to be in intelligence. Thus if we take two unrelated people【C6】______, it is likely that their degrees of intelligence will be completely different. If on the other hand we take two identical twins they will likely be as intelligent as each other. Relations like brothers and sisters, parents and children, usually have【C7】______intelligence and this clearly suggests that intelligence depends on birth. 【C8】______now that we take identical twins and put them in different environments. We might send one, for example to a university and the other to a factory where the work is boring. We would soon find differences in intelligence developing, and this indicates that environment【C9】______birth plays a part. This conclusion is also suggested by the【C10】______that people who live in close contact with each other,but who are not related at all, are likely to have similar degrees of intelligence.
单选题 【C1】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:形容词或副词+enough表示“…得很”,这里strangely enough表示“奇怪得很”。
单选题 【C2】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:make something out of something else表示“从…中制造出…”。
单选题 【C3】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:根据下文whether or not he reaches those limits可知此空是limits。
单选题 【C4】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:因为上文提到了先天和后天环境对一个人的智力的影响,所以这里一个人的先天的智力还需要后天环境的帮助才能发挥最大优势。
单选题 【C5】
【正确答案】 B
【答案解析】解析:根据本段可知智力跟遗传关系重大,根据常识可知智力不是只取决于先天水平,所以排除D选项,B选项更合适。
单选题 【C6】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:根据上下文可知是随机选择两个不相干的人,他们的智力可能相差会很大,因为他们没有血缘关系。at random是随机的意思。
单选题 【C7】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:因为上文已经提到了遗传对智力的影响,所以这里兄弟姐妹、孩子与父母之间的智力是相近似的,故选择similar。
单选题 【C8】
【正确答案】 D
【答案解析】解析:look后接名词时,一般跟at连用。这里不是相信这样一个情况,也不是建议这样一种情况,而是让读者想象有这样一种情况:一对双胞胎的不同遭遇。故选项D正确。
单选题 【C9】
【正确答案】 C
【答案解析】解析:这里得出的结论是后天环境跟先天一样对一个人的智力有很大影响。
单选题 【C10】
【正确答案】 A
【答案解析】解析:后天环境对一个人的智力的影响也可以通过这样一个事实来佐证:两个没有血缘关系的人住在一起,智力相差无几。