According to scientists' research, the month in which babies are born could affect them in some ways.
Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn  Scientists believe many of the differences can be explained by the mother's exposure to sunlight in pregnancy(懷孕).  Sunlight helps lead to the production of Vitamin D in the body. The lack of this in the first months of life may have a bad effect on mental and physical health.
Vitamin D, called the "sunshine vitamin", is known to help regulate（調(diào)節(jié)） thousands of genes during development, according to a study of more than two million people. So Vitamin D has a good effect on health  This study showed that people born from April to June had slightly shorter lives than those born in October, November or December. Similar studies in the USA showed that people born in autumn lived about 160 days longer than those born in spring.
Professor Russell Foster, an Oxford University neuroscientist on seasonal biology, said the conclusions were surprising and interesting. He added, "These are small effects but they are very, very clear. I am not giving voice to star signs and they are just for fun. But it is true that we are affected by our season of birth."
小題1:A baby's season of birth doesn't affect its_______.
A．healthB．heightC．length of lifeD．mind
小題2:According to the passage,_______ can help people get Vitamin D.
A. enough sleep                B. enough sunlight   
C. fresh air                        D. suitable seasons
小題3:Which of the following is TRUE according to the passage?
A．People born in spring may not be in good health.
B．Children born under Aquarius are cleverer than those born under Libra.
C．Professor Russell Foster is interested in star signs and believes in them
D．People born in May will live longer than those born in October.
小題4:What does the passage mainly tell us?
A. People can know the length of life by star sign.
B. Women should choose to give birth to children in spring.
C A child's season of birth has some effect on him or her.
D. Vitamin D is very important to people's health.

小題1:B
小題2:B
小題3:A
小題4:C

試題分析：這篇短文主要介紹了嬰兒出生的月份會(huì)對(duì)孩子有影響。這種影響非常非常小，但是卻是非常明顯的。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)短文第二段Babies born in spring get sick easily. Children born under Aquarius may be less clever than those born in other seasons. They may also have shorter lives than those born in autumn描述，可知出生的時(shí)間不同會(huì)影響健康，智力和壽命的長(zhǎng)短。沒有提及身高，故選B。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段Sunlight helps lead to the production of Vitamin D in the body可知陽光導(dǎo)致了維生素D在身體的產(chǎn)生。故選B。
小題3:是非判斷題。根據(jù)第二段Babies born in spring get sick easily描述可知在春天出生的人容易生病，故選A
小題4:歸納理解題。根據(jù)短文的描述，可知孩子的出生月份對(duì)孩子是有影響的。故選C
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