According to a recent study, the idea of aging might look different throu

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问题        According to a recent study, the idea of aging might look different through the eyes of little children. A good number of children aged three to five seemed to think that birthday parties were【C1】______for making people grow older. According to those kids, if people don’t have a birthday party, they【C2】______the same age.
       Developmental psychologist Jacqueline Woolley compiled two studies in which they tested children’s understanding of aging by telling them stories. The researchers told them a story about a child who had no birthday party. Then, a story about a child who had two birthday parties. After hearing the stories, the children were asked to tell the age of each character.
       Woolley’s team【C3】______that 4- and 5-year-olds would do【C4】______ better than 3-year-olds at reporting the age of the character in each story. But for the story, in which a child had two birthday parties, all the kids seemed【C5】______ .
       The researchers also tested children’s【C6】______ about the way adults age by telling a story about a woman who does not want to grow older. Seventy-one percent of three-year-olds responded with【C7】______answers. The older kids did better on that question, and all of the kids were able to correctly answer the other questions about the woman’s age.
       Children as young as three understand the idea that living things grow and【C8】______ do not. But birthday parties are a cultural 【C9】______. So the researchers set out to study how a piece of culture might 【C10】______ the way children think about an idea that overlaps culture and biology.
A)affect
B)beliefs
C)confused
D)exert
E)expected
F)extremely
G)guilty
H) mention
I) negative
J) objects
K) practice
L)positive
M) remain
N) responsible
O) significantly [br] 【C10】

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答案 A

解析 动词辨析题。分析句子结构可知,how引导的宾语从句缺谓语,空格处应为动词原形,与might共同作宾语从句的谓语。根据前一句可得知,生日派对是一种文化习俗,空格所在句由So连接,顺承上文,指出研究人员决定研究一种文化现象如何可能孩子们对于那些既覆盖文化又覆盖生物学的观点的认知。由此推断,文化对孩子们认知的“影响”成为研究人员的新课题。结合备选项,可推断affect“影响”符合句意,故为答案。
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