Section II Use of English
(15 minutes)
Directions :
Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and markA, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET1.
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) 0ne older sibling - brother or sister - when they were born.
(24), laterborns are up t0 15 times more likely than firstboms 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 - of6,566 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) thinkerin the 19th century?" he said.
Darwin, the first t0 (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.
21.
[A] Likewise
[B] Likely
[C] Alike
[D] Unlike