The women in the story 23 birth to children that have the same appearance.
答案：(D) give
【句型】give birth to 固定片語「生下」；send／make／take birth 都不是這個字詞搭配的正確動詞。
birth 你認得是「出生」，四個動詞你也都認得，但如果沒把 give birth to 當成一整組記起來，就會變成四個中文都說得通的組合互相混淆——「帶來出生」、「製造出生」聽起來好像都行。答對率四成六，卡的就是這裡：不是不懂字，是沒把這一組黏在一起。
四個選項都是高頻動詞，可見這一格考的是哪一個能跟 birth 黏成一組。先把句中那個 to 用掉，但要用得準：give、send、take 三個都能走「動詞加受詞加 to 加人」這個句型（Give the book to your brother. 把書拿給你弟弟。／send a letter to a friend 寄信給朋友／take a cup of tea to him 端杯茶給他），make 配的則是 for（make a cake for me 做個蛋糕給我）。所以 birth 後面那個 to 只刷得掉 make，另外兩個刷不掉——這一步要看清楚，別以為看到 to 就等於答案是 give。真正定案的是字詞搭配：四個動詞裡只有 give 與 birth 黏成一組，give birth to 字面是把生命給出去，實際意思是「生下」。這一題的鑑別度 59，分開的就是認不認得這一組；文法上四個刷不乾淨，只能靠平常有沒有把整組記起來。順便把同句型的其他組合一起收進來：give rise to（引起、造成）、give way to（讓位給、被……取代）。give birth to 本身也有引申義，可以用在抽象的事物上（The movement gave birth to a new political party. 這場運動催生了一個新政黨。）。
make（製造）：它接受詞之後配的是 for 不是 to（make a cake for me），句中那個 to 就把它擋在門外，這是四個選項裡唯一能用文法刷掉的。send（送出）、take（拿走）：句型上都接得起 to，文法這一關過得了，但英文裡沒有 send birth、take birth 這樣的說法。碰到這一型只能靠搭配認人，所以背片語時要連介系詞一起背，不要只背動詞。
give birth to（生下、催生出）、give rise to（引起、造成）、give way to（讓位給、被……取代）、at birth（出生時）、birth rate（出生率）、the same appearance（相同的外貌）。
It is a usual sunny afternoon in the village of Midwich, England. It seems not 21 any afternoon in the village, but all of a sudden, people and animals lose consciousness. 22 they awake, all of the women of child-bearing age have become pregnant.
This is an episode from a 1960 science fiction story. The women in the story 23 birth to children that have the same appearance. They all have blond hair and "strange eyes." 24 the children grow, they run around the village in a pack, wearing identical clothing and hairstyles, staring at everyone impolitely. 25 one child learns is also known by the others instantly. Villagers begin to 26 their belief that the children all have "one mind."
In this story, the children are produced by some unexplained force from outer space. But this story written 40 years ago 27 predicted the arrival of a recent method of genetic engineering—cloning. Cloning is the genetic process of producing copies of an individual. Will the genetic copies of a human really have "one mind" as 28 in this story? This situation is so strange to us that we do not know what will 29 of it. Faced with this new situation, people have 30 to find out how to deal with it.