克漏字：
| It has long been part of folk wisdom that birth order strongly | |
| affects personality. However, most of the research claiming that | |
| firstborns are radically different from other children has been __1__. It | |
| now seems that any effects of birth order on personality will likely be | |
| 5 | washed out by all the other influences in a person’s life. __2__, the |
| belief in the permanent impact of birth order, according to Toni | |
| Falbo, a social psychologist at the University of Texas at Austin, | |
| “comes from the psychological theory that your personality is fixed by | |
| the time you are six. That __3__ simply is incorrect.” | |
| 10 | The better, later and larger studies are less likely to find birth |
| order a useful predictor of anything. When two Swiss social | |
| scientists, Cecile Ernst and Jules Angst, __4__ 1,500 studies a few | |
| years ago, they concluded that “birth-order differences in personality | |
| are nonexistent in our sample” and that “in particular, there is no | |
| 15 | evidence for a ‘firstborn personality.’” |
