Text 2Identical twins are a perfect test case
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Identical twins are a perfect test case for theories of personality development. If a theory can" t explain the differences between identical twins, then it cannot explain environmental effects on per-sonality. Even identical twins brought up in the same home have different personalities.Take Ladan and Laleh Bijani from Iran. They were identical twins who had spent their entire 29 years joined at the head. And yet, Ladan, the more outspoken of the pair, told journalists,"We are two completely separate individuals. we have different world views,We have different lifestyles, we think very differently about issues. " Why did Ladan and Laleh have different person-alities?
Self-organized systems in insects can provide us with some ideas. A colony of ants, for exam-ple, can be seen as a self-organized system. No supervisor tells the ants what to do, and yet all the jobs get done. The system works in such a way that if one ant carries out a particular job, it be- comes less likely that another ant will attempt that job because it no longer needs doing. The result is what economists call "division of labor. "
Self-organization also produces division of labor in human groups. Each individual looks for something to specialize in, his or her own suitable position in the group. If one position is occu-pied, the individual will seek another. This process increases the differences even between identical twins, because once they" ve chosen different specialities, a circular mechanism causes small initial differences between them to widen.
Although identical twins look very much alike, people who know them well will distinguish between them. They might ,for example, address more questions and comments to one twin than the other-perhaps by chance first. But the consequence is that the twin who is addressed more often will do more talking than the other twin, which will cause people who know them to address still more of their questions and comments to that twm. The result, over time, will be one outspo-ken twin and one quieter one-like Ladan and Laleh Bijani.
51. According to the writer we learn that identical twins_________
[ A] differ in personality
[B] differ in appearance
[C] have the same lifestyle
[D] have the same outlook请帮忙给出正确答案和分析,谢谢!
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正确答案:A
Text2参考译文同卵双胞胎是个性发展理论最完美的检测对象。如果一个理论不能解释同卵双胞胎之间的差异,那它就不能解释环境对个性的影响。即使在同一个家庭成长的同卵双胞胎也有着不同的个性。就拿来自伊朗的LadanBijani和LalechBijani来说,她们是同卵双胞胎,并且29年来她们共用一个脑袋。然而,Ladan,其中更加坦率的一个,告诉记者说:“我们是两个完全不同的个体。我们有不同的世界观,不同的生活方式和思考方式。”为什么她们两个有不同的个性呢?昆虫的自我组织系统可以为我们提供一些想法。例如,一个蚂蚁群体可以被看成是一个自我组织系统。没有谁告诉蚂蚁去做什么,但是他们却完成所有工作。在这样一个系统之中,如果一个蚂蚁执行某项工作,另外的蚂蚁不太可能也做这项工作,因为已经不需要了。这就是经济学家所讲的“劳动分工”。自我组织在人类群体中也产生劳动分工。每一个个体寻找他所擅长的东西,寻找他自己在这个群体中所适合的位置。如果一个位置已经有人了,那么他就会追寻另外的位置。这个过程增加了人与人之间的个体差异,即使是同卵双胞胎也不例外,因为一旦他们选择不同的长处,一种循环机制便使得他们之间原始的较少的差异逐渐扩大。尽管同卵双胞胎在外貌上十分相像,但是了解他们的人还是能够区别他们的。例如,他们可能与双胞胎其中的一个有过更多的交谈一可能起先是偶然的。但结果是,经常与人交谈的那个双胞胎会更加健谈,这就使得熟知他的人更加频繁地与之进行交谈。结果时间长了,双胞胎就会变得一个坦率,一个比较安静一跟LadanBijani和LalehBijani一样。51.A【精析】细节题。从第一段中最后一句“Evenidenticaltwinsbroughtupinthesamehomehavedifferentpersonalities”即使在同一个家庭成长的同卵双胞胎也有着不同的个性,故选A。