When a human infant is born into any community in any part of
the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided 1.______
neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or 2.______
during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children are
completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to 3.______
their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new born
child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some
other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human
group, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human
infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new
born animals to get on their feet within minutes of birth and run 4.______
with the herd within a few hours.
Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for 5.______
weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant
they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. 6.______
It is during this very long period in which the human infant is
totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature 7.______
which it shares with all other undamaged human infants,
a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that
language be ‘species specific’ to the human race, that is to say, they 8.______
consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in 9.______
such a way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that 10.______
just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color, and just
as they are designed to stand upright rather than to
move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as
part of their normal development as.
_____
A Greek was born on the 260th day of 20 BC and died on the 260th day of 60 AD. How many years did he live?
He()lives in the house where he was born.
When a human infant is born into any community in any part of
the world it has two things in common with any infant, provided 1.______
neither of them have been damaged in any way either before or 2.______
during birth. Firstly, and most obviously, new born children are
completely helpless. Apart from a powerful capacity to pay attention to 3.______
their helplessness by using sound, there is nothing the new born
child can do to ensure his own survival. Without care from some
other human being or beings, be it mother, grandmother, or human
group, a child is very unlikely to survive. This helplessness of human
infants is in marked contrast with the capacity of many new
born animals to get on their feet within minutes of birth and run 4.______
with the herd within a few hours.
Although young animals are certainly in risk, sometimes for 5.______
weeks or even months after birth, compared with the human infant
they very quickly develop the capacity to fend for them. 6.______
It is during this very long period in which the human infant is
totally dependent on the others that it reveals the second feature 7.______
which it shares with all other undamaged human infants,
a capacity to learn language. For this reason, biologists now suggest that
language be ‘species specific’ to the human race, that is to say, they 8.______
consider the human infant to be genetic programmed in 9.______
such a way that it can acquire language. This suggestion implies that 10.______
just as human beings are designed to see three-dimensionally and in color, and just
as they are designed to stand upright rather than to
move on all fours, so they are designed to learn and use language as
part of their normal development as.
_____
A Greek was born on the 260th day of 20 BC and died on the 260th day of 60 AD. How many years did he live?
Passage 1 Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was 1 of them. Likewise Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates. They were 2 “laterborns” —that is, they had at least one older sibling — brother or sister — when they were born. In fact, laterborns are up to 15 times more 3 than firstborns to resist authority and 4 new ground, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. In his book “Born To Rebel” being released this week, Sulloway claims that 5 someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important 6 shaping personality—more significant 7 gender, race, nationality or class. He 8 26 years studying the lives—and birth orders—of 6,566 historical figures to 9 his conclusions. A laterborn himself, Sulloway first posed how birth order 10 personality as a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University. “ 11 could a somewhat commonplace student at Cambridge become the most revolutionary thinker in the 19th century?” he said. Darwin, the first to 12 the belief 13 God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six 14 . Most of his opponents were firstborns. Sulloway’s theory held 15 with Copernicus, the first astronomer to propose that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.
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He’s very famous not only in Britain, but also in many other ______ in the world. He was born in 1812 and he lived in London.