单选题 What determines the kind of person you are? What factors make you more or less bold, intelligent, or able to read a map? All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genes and the environment in which you were     26    . The study of how genes and environment interact to influence     27    activity is known as behavioral genetics. Behavioral genetics has made important     28    to the biological revolution, providing information about the extent to which biology influences mind, brain and behavior.
    Any research that suggests that     29    to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial. Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can     30    based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes? It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and eye color. But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how     31    they are, or what career they are likely to choose? A concern of psychological scientists is the     32    to which all of these characteristics are influenced by nature and nurture (养育), by genetic makeup and the environment. Increasingly, science     33    that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits. From this perspective, people are born     34    like undeveloped photographs: The image is already captured, but the way it     35    appears can vary based on the development process. However, the basic picture is there from the beginning.
    A. abilities        B. achieve      C. appeal        D. complaints
    E. contributions    F. displayed    G. essentially    H. eventually
    I. extent            J. indicates    K. proceeds      L. psychological
    M. raised            N. smart        O. standard
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【正确答案】M
【答案解析】这个词所处的位置是定语从句,又根据前面的you were可知这里是一个动词过去分词作被动式。可以推测作者这里指的是人们所生长的环境,故选raised。
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【正确答案】L
【答案解析】根据前面的动词和后面的名词可以推断这里需要填形容词,表示……类型的活动,根据后面一直在讲基因对人心理的影响,可以推断这里填psychological。
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【正确答案】E
【答案解析】从前面的形容词可以推断这里缺少名词,从文章主题基因判断这里一定是说影响大,且make contribution to是固定搭配。故选E。
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【正确答案】A
【答案解析】ability to do sth. 意为“做某事的能力”,在此处,作者想表达的意思是,任何宣称人类做出某行为的能力是基于生物学的研究都是有争议的。故选A。
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【正确答案】B
【答案解析】can后面接动词原形,根据上下文猜测此处说的是你能达到的程度是有限制的,故选achieve。
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【正确答案】N
【答案解析】通过成分分析可得,这里是形容词,根据句子的主语they,又得出是形容人的,只有smart符合题意,故选N。
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【正确答案】I
【答案解析】根据上下文推测出这里可能会说到影响的程度,且to the extent为固定搭配,意为“……的程度”,故选I。
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【正确答案】J
【答案解析】这句话缺少谓语动词,故此处需要一个动词的第三人称单数形式,只有J符合题意,代入句中意为“科学表明……”。
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【正确答案】G
【答案解析】这里不缺成分,可以考虑形容词或者副词,但是后面没有名词,可以猜测这里要填副词,可以选的有essentially和eventually。只有essentially符合题意,代入句中意为“人的出生本质上像还没有洗出的照片”。
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【正确答案】H
【答案解析】同上题,这里要填副词,剩下的只有eventually一词,代入句中意为“最终呈现的形式有所不同”。