《2025年名校金典课堂八年级英语上册人教版成都专版》

五、补全短文。根据短文内容，从短文后的A—F选项中，选出五个适当的选项补全短文。
What makes a child popular in school? The clothes he wears? His taste in music? Or something else? According to new study，it may just depend on（取决于）his age.
1.______ The study analyzed（分析）figure from over 13,000 students aged between 14 and 15 in the Netherlands，Sweden and the UK. Scientists asked the students to name up 5 children who they thought were the most popular in their class. The scientists then analyzed how popular a child was and compared that child with other children born in the same school year.
In the UK，children born in September，the oldest in the class，were the most popular. 2.______ Children born in the following August，the youngest in the class，were the least popular. The results were similar in the Netherlands and Sweden，where older kids were usually more popular.
The scientists wrote that there might be clear differences in size，power（能力）and cognitive development（认知发展）in children who were 11 months older than others in the same class. They were sure that these older children would be more likely to be more powerful and more confident. 3.______
The scientists also analyzed the results of letting a child repeat（重复）a year on the popularity（受欢迎程度）of him/her in the Netherlands. You know what they found? 4.______
5.______ A 2017 study found that the oldest children born in September in Florida did better in school than the youngest ones born in the following August.
A. All of these might make them more popular.
B. The most popular students are usually the oldest and the tallest.
C. The second most popular students were born in October，and then November.
D. A study found that the oldest kids in the class might also be the most popular.
E. Students who repeated a year at middle school were more popular than those who didn't.
F. Being the oldest children in the classroom may also help children do better in school.
1. D
2. C
3. A
4. E
5. F

答案： D; C; A; E; F