题目内容
【题目】语法填空
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入1个适当的单词或括号内单词的正确形式。
Were you the first or the last child in your family? Or were you a middle or an only child? Some people think ____1____ matters where you were born in your family. But there are different ideas about what birth order means. Some people say that the oldest children, ____2____ are smart and strong-willed, are very likely ____3____ (succeed). The reason ____4____ 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 ____5____ same reason.
What ____6____(happen) to the other children in the family? Middle children don’t get so much attention, so they don’t feel that important. If a family has many children, the middle one sometimes gets lost in the crowd. The ____7____(young) child, though, often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite ____8____ (difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many ____9____(chance) in their lives. They usually ____10____ (follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.
【答案】
【1】it
【2】who
【3】to succeed
【4】for
【5】the
【6】happens
【7】youngest
【8】differently
【9】chances
【10】followed
【解析】
【语篇解读】孩子的成功与是第几胎有关系吗？
【1】 考查形式主语。本句中it是形式主语，真正的主语是后面的从句where you were born in your family.句意：一些人认为在家庭中你是第几个出生的很重要。
【2】 考查定语从句。本题定语从句的先行词是the oldest children，关系动词who指代先行词在句中作主语。句意：一些人说最大的孩子很可能会成功，他们聪明而且意志坚定。
【3】 考查固定句式。句式：be likely to do sth很可能做某事。句意：一些人说家里最大的孩子很可能会成功，他们聪明而且意志坚定。
【4】 考查固定搭配。名词reason通常和介词for连用，构成the reason for…＂……的原因＂。句意：这个的原因很简单。
【5】 考查冠词。在英语中定冠词the通常表示特指，本句中使用the修饰same reason。句意：因为同样的原因，独生子女会成功。
【6】 考查主谓一致和时态。在第一段中作者告诉我们家里最大的孩子或者独生子女更容易成功，那么其他孩子的情况又怎么样。本句中主语是What，且整篇文章用了一般现在时，故填happens。
【7】 考查形容词。句意：然而最小的孩子经常会得到特别的优待。本句前两句告诉我们一个大家庭中，中间的孩子往往被忽视，最小的孩子会受到优待。
【8】 考查副词。此处用副词充当状语，修饰动词。
【9】 考查名词。前面是many，此处应用名词的复数形式，故填chances.句意：最大的孩子们在他们的生活中并没有太多的机会。
【10】 考查时态。此处讲的是一篇研究中的发现，都用一般过去时。
