Question

  Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think 47.        matters when you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that oldest children,48.      are smart and strongwilled,are very likely 49.        (succeed) . The reason 50.        this is simple. Parents have a lot of time for their first child and give him or her a lot of attention.   An only child will succeed for 51.        same reason. What happens to the 52.        children in the family? Middle children don't get so much attention,so they don't feel that impor?tant. If a family has many children,the middle one some?times gets lost in the crowd. The youngest child,53.       ，often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite 54.        (difference) . The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn't take many chances in 55.        lives. They usually 56.        (follow) orders. Rules didn't mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.

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[文章大意]本文講述的是孩子在家里的排行可能會影響到他們的人生。

47. it 考查代詞。"it matters when you were born in your fami?ly"這個句式中it是形式主語，真正的主語是when引導的主語從句。這句話的意思是"有人認為你在家里的排行順序很重要"。

48. who 考查定語從句。who引導的是oldest children的定語從句，在從句中作主語。

49. to succeed 考査固定搭配。be likely to do sth可能做某事。

50. for 考查介詞。the reason for...……的原因。

51. the 考查冠詞。the same reason同樣的原因。

52. other考查代詞。句意：家里的其他孩子又會怎樣呢？

53. however/though考查連接副詞。句意：然而，最小的孩子通常會得到特殊的照顧。

54. differently考査副詞。句意：但是最新的一項調查卻持有完全不同的觀點。

55. their考查代詞。句意：他們在生活中不會冒太多風險。

56. followed考查動詞的時態(tài)。根據(jù)前文可知用一般過去時。