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The Relationship Between Our Personality and Siblings For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes

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问题              The Relationship Between Our Personality and Siblings
    For a long time, researchers have tried to nail down just what shapes us—or what, at least, shapes us most. And over the years, they’ve had a lot of finding moments. First it was our parents, particularly our mothers. Then it was our genes. Next it was our peers, who show up last but hold great sway. And all those ideas were good ones—but only as far as they went.
    The fact is once investigators had exposed all the data from those theories, they still came away with as many questions as answers. Somewhere, there was a sort of temperamental dark matter exerting an invisible gravitational pull of its own. More and more, scientists are concluding that this unexplained force is our siblings.
    From the time they are born, our brothers and sisters are our collaborators and coconspirators, our role models and cautionary tales. They are our scolds, protectors, goads, tormentors, playmates, counselors, sources of envy, objects of pride. They teach us how to resolve conflicts and how not to; how to conduct friendships and when to walk away from them. Sisters teach brothers about the mysteries of girls; brothers teach sisters about the puzzle of boys. Our spouses arrive comparatively late in our lives; our parents eventually leave us. Our siblings may be the only people we’ll ever know who truly qualify as partners for life. "Siblings," says family sociologist Katherine Conger, "are with us for the whole journey."
    Within the scientific community, siblings have not been wholly ignored, but research has been limited mostly to discussions of birth order. Older sibs were said to be strivers; younger ones rebels; middle kids the lost souls.
    The stereotypes were broad, if not entirely untrue, and there the discussion mostly ended. But all that’s changing. At research centers in the U. S. , Canada, Europe and elsewhere, investigators are launching a wealth of new studies into the sibling dynamic, looking at ways brothers and sisters steer one another into—or away from—risky behavior; how they form a protective buffer against family upheaval; how they educate one another about the opposite sex; how all siblings compete for family recognition and come to terms over such impossibly charged issues as parental favoritism.
    From that research, scientists are gaining intriguing insights into the people we become as adults. Does the manager who runs a congenial office call on the peacemaking skills learned in the family playroom? Do husbands and wives benefit from the inter-gender negotiations they waged when their most important partners were their sisters and brothers? All that is under investigation. "Siblings have just been off the radar screen until now," says Conger. But today serious work is revealing exactly how our brothers and sisters influence us.
Studies on siblings by scientists used to______.
选项 A、be totally forgotten
B、focus only on the sons not daughters
C、mainly focus on the orders of the kids
D、focus on the sibling dynamic
答案C
解析 事实细节题。因为本题题干中的关键词siblings在文中出现过多，由该词无法直接定位。由于前三段已经设题，因此本题最可能的出题点在紧接着的第四段和第五段。第四段提到了siblings和research，这与题干吻合，因此定位至该段。首句指出：在科学界，兄弟姐妹的影响并没有被完全忽略，但是对他们的研究主要局限在出生顺序上，可见C为答案。A与该句中siblings have not been wholly ignored矛盾，排除；此处没有提到性别问题，排除B；第五段第二句提到new studies into the sibling dynamic，这是提到现在的研究内容，不是过去的内容，排除D。
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