题目内容
阅读下面材料，在空白处填入适当的内容（不多于3个单词）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 think1.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 happens to the6.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 youngest child,7., often gets special treatment. Often this child grows up to be funny. But a recent study saw things quite8.(difference). The study found that first children believed in family rules. They didn’t take many chances in9.lives. They usually10.(follow) orders. Rules didn’t mean as much to later children in the family. They took chances and they often did better in life.
