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Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was one of them.【21】______Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Ga
Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was one of them.【21】______Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Ga
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Some people were just born to rebel; Charles Darwin was one of them.【21】______Nicholas Copernicus, Benjamin Franklin and Bill Gates. They were【22】______"laterborns" -that is, they had【23】______one older sibling — brother or sister — when they were born.
【24】______, laterborns are up to 15 times more likely than firstborns to【25】______authority and break new【26】______, says Frank J. Sulloway, a researcher scholar at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
In his book"Born To Rebel"being【27】______this week, Sulloway claims that【28】______someone is an older or younger sibling is the most important【29】______shaping personality - more significant than gender, race, nationality【30】______class.
He spent 26 years【31】______the lives - and birth orders - of 6, 566 historical【32】______to reach his conclusions.
A laterborn himself, Sulloway first【33】______how birth order affected personality【34】______a scholar of Darwin at Harvard University.
" How could a somewhat【35】______student at Cambridge become the most【36】______thinker in the 19th century?" he said.
Darwin, the first to【37】______the belief that God created the world with his theory of evolution, was the fifth of six children. Most of his【38】______were firstborns.
Sulloway’s theory held【39】______with Copernicus, the first astronomer to【40】______that the Sun was the center of the universe, and computer revolutionary Gates of Microsoft.
【36】
选项
A、questionable
B、indifferent
C、traditional
D、revolutionary
答案
D
解析
从自身的知识我们知道达尔文是一个非常具有创新精神的人,且他的进化论对全人类来说是一种革命性的突破。questionable可疑的;indifferent无关紧要的;traditional传统的;revolutionary创新的,革命的;只有revolutionary符合文意。
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