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People have wondered for a long time how their personalities and behaviors arc formed.It's not easy to explain why one person is intelligent and another is not. or why one is cooperative and another is competitive.
Social scientists are, of course, extremely interested in these types of question. They want to explain why we possess certain characteristics and exhibits certain behaviors. There are no clear answers yet, but two distinct schools of thought on thee matter have developed. As one might expect the two approaches are very different from one another. and there is a great deal of debate between proponents of each theory. Thecontroversy is often conveniently referred to as"nature/nurture".
Those who support the "nature" side of the conflict believe that our personalities and behavior patterns are largely determined by biological and genetic factor. That our environment has little. if anything to do with our abilities. characteristics. and behavior is central to this theory. Taken to an extreme, this theory Maintains that our behavior is predetermined to such a great degree that we are almost completely governed by our instincts.
Proponents of the "nurture" theory, or, as they are often called. behaviorists. claim that our environmentis more important than our biologically based instincts in determining how we will act. Behaviorists see humans as being whose behavior is almost completely shaped by their surroundings. Their view of the human being is quite mechanistic; they maintain that like machines. humans respond to environmental stimuli as the basis of their behavior.
The social and political implications or these two theories are profound. In the United Stares, for example, blacks often score below whites on standardized intelligent test. This leads some "nature" proponents to conclude that blacks are genetically interior to whites. Behaviorists, in contrast. say that the differences in scores are due to the fact that blacks are often deprived of many of the educational and other environmental advantages that white enjoy. and that. as a result. they do not develop the same responses thatwhites do.
Neither of these theories can yet fully explain human behavior. In fact, it is quite likely that the key to our behavior lies somewhere between these two extremes. That the controversy will continue for a long time is certain.
1. The author is mainly concerned about solving the problem__________________.
A) why one's behaviors differ from others'
B) what makes different stages of intelligence
C) how social scientists form different theories
D) what causes the "nature/nurture" controversy
2. The word "proponents" can best be replaced by _____.
A) approaches
B) advocates
C) principles
D) characters
3. Which of the following statements may be supported by the "nature" school?
A) We are born will certain personalities and behaviors.
B) Environment has nothing to do with our personalities.
C) Abilities and characteristics are revealed by behaviors.
D) Only extreme behaviors are determined by instinct.
4. What can we learn about the behaviorists?
A) They believe human beings are mechanical.
B) They compare our behaviors to the machines.
C) They suggest that we react to the environment as the machines do.
D) They uphold that the mechanistic theory can be applied on us as well.
5. The "nature” theorists believe that the blacks' low scores____________.
A) are the result of the educational disadvantages
B) are a manifestation of the blacks' poor intelligence
C) have nothing to do with their true intelligence
D) have nothing to do will factors other than heredity
答案：
1.作者主要關(guān)注于解決什么問(wèn)題?
A) 為什么一個(gè)人的行為與其他人的行為不一樣?
B) 智力發(fā)展的不同階段是怎么形成的?
C)社會(huì)科學(xué)家是如何形成不同的理論的?
D) 是什么造成了“天性論，教養(yǎng)論”的爭(zhēng)議?
[A]原文開(kāi)頭兩段指出作者要討論的問(wèn)題，第2段末開(kāi)始從兩個(gè)方面解釋該問(wèn)題，末段是總結(jié)段，從文章的結(jié)構(gòu)可見(jiàn)文章要探討的是人類(lèi)行為如何形成。從選項(xiàng)來(lái)看，似乎沒(méi)有一個(gè)表達(dá)此意，但首段末句和第2段第2句中的why...從句表明how(怎樣形成)和why(為什么不同)其實(shí)是對(duì)文章關(guān)注的問(wèn)題的兩個(gè)不同表述，故選A。
2. 能替換“proponents”(支持者)一詞的是哪一個(gè)?
A)方法 B)倡導(dǎo)者 C)原則 D)特征
[D]第4段首句可以比較明顯看出proponents和該句中的they以及behaviorists所指相同。由此可見(jiàn)，proponents 一詞指的應(yīng)該是人;第5段第3句中的conclude也表明proponents是有行為能力的人，只有選項(xiàng)B符臺(tái)這種推測(cè)。其他選項(xiàng)都是無(wú)行為能力的“方法”、“原則”或“特征”，都不適于原文句子的內(nèi)容和搭配。
3.下列哪一種言論能得到“天性論”的支持?
A) 我們的一些性格和行為是與生俱來(lái)的
B) 環(huán)境與我們的性格沒(méi)有關(guān)系。
C) 能力和個(gè)性是可以從行為中反映出來(lái)的。
D)只有極端行為才是由天性決定的。
[A]第3段首句中的determined by biological and genetic factor和未句中的governed by our instincts/表明“天性論”派會(huì)認(rèn)同選項(xiàng)A的看法。第3段第2句表明選項(xiàng)B中的has nothing to do with... 不正確;原文并未提及選項(xiàng)C中提到的能力、特點(diǎn)和行為之間的關(guān)系;選項(xiàng)D只是將第3段末句的某些詞語(yǔ)拼合在一起，原文并未討論有關(guān)extreme behaviors的內(nèi)容。
4.關(guān)于行為學(xué)家我們了解到的是什么?
A) 他們相信人類(lèi)具有機(jī)械性。
B) 他們將我們的行為比作機(jī)器。
C) 他們暗示我們對(duì)環(huán)境做出的反應(yīng)就像機(jī)器做出的反應(yīng)一樣。
D) 他們認(rèn)為，機(jī)械性理論也可以適用于我們。
[C]本題實(shí)際上考查對(duì)第4段末句的正確理解。原文該句中的like machines, humans respond...表明作者并非單純把人類(lèi)比作機(jī)器，而是把人類(lèi)對(duì)環(huán)境的反應(yīng)與機(jī)械對(duì)環(huán)境的反應(yīng)作對(duì)比，故選項(xiàng)C正確。
5.“天性論”理論者認(rèn)為，黑人的分?jǐn)?shù)很低_____________。
A) 因?yàn)榇嬖诮逃觿?shì)。
B) 顯示出黑有和智力低下。
C) 與他們真正的智力沒(méi)有關(guān)系。
D) 與除遺傳以外的其他的因素毫無(wú)關(guān)系。
[D]將第5段第3句與第3段結(jié)合起來(lái)，可以確定選項(xiàng)D為本題答案，只有選項(xiàng)D才符合“天性論”派對(duì)性格與行為形成的看法。選項(xiàng)A是另一派，即行為主義者的看法;原文該處雖也有intelligent一詞，但是“天性論”者關(guān)注的并非分?jǐn)?shù)與真正的智力之間的關(guān)系，他們關(guān)注的是造成黑人分?jǐn)?shù)低下的原因，事實(shí)上，原文也沒(méi)有提到分?jǐn)?shù)和智力之間是否存在某種關(guān)系，因此選項(xiàng)B和C都沒(méi)有原文依據(jù)。
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