MCQ Practice ID: 20416 English

Various research centres are studying identical...

Various research centres are studying identical twins in order to discover the “heritability” of behavioural characteristics – that is the degree to which a trait is due to genes (“nature”) instead of the environment/. They have reached some startling conclusions. One study found, for example, that optimism and pessimism are both very much influenced by genes, but only optimism is affected by environment as well. According to another study, genes influence our coffee consumption, but not consumption of tea. Anxiety seems to be 40 to 50 percent heritable. Another study tells us that happiness does not depend much on money or love or professional success; instead, it is 80 percent heritable! Among the traits that appear to be largely heritable are shyness, attraction to danger (thrill seeking),choice of career and religious belief. In line 3, startling is nearest in meaning to-

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Blue blood. (অভিজাত বংশীয়)

Rani is proud of her blue blood.

Question Answer ID: 39926 · English

Give-up. (ত্যাগ করা)

You should give-up smoking.

Question Answer ID: 39925 · English

Caught red-handed. (হাতে নাতে ধরা)

The police caught the thief red-handed.

Question Answer ID: 39924 · English

Get rid of (পরিত্রাণ পাওয়া)

You should get rid of the rogue.

Question Answer ID: 39923 · English

খাবারের বৈচিত্র স্বাস্থ্যের জন্য ভালো।

Diversity in food is good for health.

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