英语四级晨读100篇精华版074：Genes and Human基因与人类
74. Genes and Human基因与人类
What determines the kind of person you are? What factors make you more or less bold, intelligent, or able to read a map? All of these are influenced by the interaction of your genes and the environment in which you were raised. The study of how genes and environment interact to influence displayed activity is known as behavioral genetics. Behavioral genetics has made important contribution to the biological revolution, providing information about the extent to which biology influences mind, brain and behavior.
什么因素决定了你是哪种类型的人?哪些因素决定你勇敢与否、聪明与否、或者会不会看地图?所有这一切都受到你的基因和所处的成长环境之间的相互作用的影响。研究基因和外部环境如何相互作用影响人心理活动的学科被称为行为遗传学。行为遗传学提供了一些关于生物学能够影响^的思维、大脑和行为的畴，这为生物学革命做出了重大的贡献。
Any research that suggests that abilities to perform certain behaviors are based in biology is controversial. Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes? It is easy to accept that genes control physical characteristics such as sex, race and eye color. But can genes also determine whether people will get divorced, how they are, or what career they are likely to choose? A concern of psychological scientists is the to which all of these characteristics are influenced by nature and nurture, by genetic makeup and the environment. Increasingly,science that genes lay the groundwork for many human traits. From this perspective, people are born like undeveloped photographs: The image is already captured, but the way it appears can vary based on the development process. However, the basic picture is there from the beginning.
基于生物学研究的任何一项宣称人类做出某种行为的能力都是备受争议的。有谁愿意听到，自己能够取得多大的成就取决于某些自己无法控制的事情，例如你的基因?基园可以控制性别、种族和眼球的颜色等生理特征，这一点易于被人们接受。但是基因是否能够决定人是否会离婚，人会有多么聪明，或者有可能选择什么样的职业呢?心理学家们一直在关注着本性和后天养育。基因组成和生活环境能够在多大程度上影响以上这些特征。科学的发展逐渐表明，基因是人类很多特征的基础。从这个角度来看，人生来就像一张未经曝光的照片一样：图像早已经捕捉到，但是最终其呈现形式可能会因曝光过程的不同而有所变化。不过，基本的画面从一开始就已经在那儿了。
CET4四级词汇：
intelligent 聪明的;理解力强的
interact 合作
revolution 革命
limitation 局限;限制
nurture 养育;培养
capture 捕获;捕捉
CET4阅读单词短语考点：
Who wants to be told that there are limitations to what you can based on something that is beyond your control, such as your genes?
有谁愿意听到，自己能够取得多大的成就取决于某些自己无法控制的事情，例如你的基因?
本句是一个由who引导的问句，句中that there are limitations to what you can achieve hased呻something为宾语从甸，而第二个
that从句that is beyond your control是定语从句。