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also perceived their different environments very similarly. When asked about parental pressure to achieve academic success, for example, the identical twins responded similarly about their respective parents. Reunions of these identical twins revealed remarkable “coincidences” in career choices, marital history, sense of humor, and so on. Certainly heredity cannot account for an individual’s total personality. A child’s early environment may play an important role in his or her temperament as well. What we do learn from genetic studies, though, should help us to deal with any physical and psychological difficulties that may be anticipated.1.Adoptive parents should know the histories of their children.D)make a fresh start.C)For how long has Thomas Bouchard been conducting his twin study?A) One year B) Over ten years C) Less than ten years and more than one year D)significantly affected by environment.B) 5. they are anxious also because they are unable to acquire any real satisfaction of interesting life. They live and die without ever having confronted the fundamental realities of human existence as emotionally and intellectually independent and productive human beings. Those higher up on the social ladder are no less anxious. Their lives are no less empty than those of their subordinates. They are even more insecure in some respects. They are in a highly petitive race. To be promoted or to fall behind is not a matter of salary but even more a matter of selfrespect. When they apply for their first job, they are tested for intelligence as well as for the right mixture of submissiveness and independence. From the moment on they are tested again and again – by the psychologists, for whom testing┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉密┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉封┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉線┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉┉is a big business, and by their superiors, who judge their behavior, sociability, capacity to get along, etc. This constant need to prove that one is as good as or better than one’s fellow – petitor creates constant anxiety and stress, the very causes of unhappiness and illness.Am I suggesting that we should return to the preindustrial mode of production or to nineteenthcentury “free enterprise “capitalism? Certainly not. Problems are never solved by returning to a stage which one has already outgrown. I suggest transforming our social system form a bureaucratically managed industrialism in which maximal production and consumption are ends in themselves into a humanist industrialism in which man and full development of his potentialities – those of all love and of reason – are the aims of social arrangements. Production and consumption should serve only as means to this end, and should be prevented from ruling man.6. By “a welloiled cog in the machinery” the author intends to deliver the idea that man is _____. A) a necessary part of the society though each individual’s function is negligible B) working in plete harmony with the rest of the society C) an unimportant part in parison with the rest of the society D) a humble ponent of the society, especially when working smoothly7. The real cause of the anxiety of the workers and employees is that _____. A) they are likely to lose their hobs B) they have no genuine satisfaction or interest in life C) they are faced with the fundamental realities of human existence D) they are deprived of their individuality and independence8. From the passage we can conclude that real happiness of life belongs to those _____. A) who are at the bottom of the society B) who are higher up in their social status C) who prove better than their fellow – petitors D) who could dip far away from this petitive world9. To solve the present social problems the author puts forward a suggestion that we should _____. A) resort to the production mode of our ancestors B) offer higher wages to the workers and employees C) enable man to fully develop his potentialities D) take the fundamental realities for granted10. The author’s attitude toward