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  3. David Hume was bom in Edinburgh on 26 th April 1711 to Joseph and Katherine Hume.Both parents were of a good, 【C1】al__________no

David Hume was bom in Edinburgh on 26 th April 1711 to Joseph and Katherine Hume.Both parents were of a good, 【C1】al__________no

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       David Hume was bom in Edinburgh on 26 th April 1711 to Joseph and Katherine Hume.Both parents were of a good, 【C1】al__________not especially wealthy, background.His father’s family is a branch of the Earl of Hume’s and his ancestors have been proprietors of a modest estate for several【C2】gen__________, while his mother was the daughter of Sir David Falconer, a distinguished lawyer 【C3】__________became President of the College of Justice.Not much is known about Hume’s early childhood and education.It is likely that he spent his childhood 【C4】__________(divide) between the family’s Edinburgh house on the south side of the Lawnmarket, the dwelling presumably in which Hume was bom, and Ninewells, the family estate on the WhiteadderRiver in the border lowlands near Berwick.The house at Ninewells stands on a bluff above the waters of the Whiteadder.Down the bluff a few yards to the southeast of the house, an overhanging rock forms a shallow cave where local【C5】leg__________has it he indulged in profound philosophical reflections.Further【C6】alo__________the waterside are more caves, quarries and freestone rocks, and it is around these parts where Hume probably played as a young boy with his elder brother John, in addition to【C7】__________( engage) in activities like hunting, fishing and horse riding.Since attendance at church was【C8】 req__________by law at that time presumably Hume and his family also attended the local Church of Scotland pastored by his uncle.
       Most likely educated at home by local tutors in addition to his Mother’s instruction, until at the age of eleven, Hume accompanied his brother to Edinburgh University.His studies there probably【C9】inc__________Latin, Greek, logic, metaphysics, moral philosophy, history, mathematics and natural philosophy.He left Edinburgh University in either 1725 or 1726, when he was around fifteen years old, without formally taking a degree to pursue his education privately.His scholarly disposition, coupled with the fact【C10】__________both his father and maternal grandfather had been lawyers, meant that a career in law was encouraged, but his scholarly interests soon turned to literature and philosophy.
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答案generations
解析 该句的意思是“…他的祖先几代以来一直拥有一块规模不大的地产…”。根据空白前面ancestors及句意，判断所填词为“一代、一辈”之意。再根据所给字母提示，故填入generations。
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