2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试
英语试题
Section Ⅰ
Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text Choose the best words for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or D on the ANSWER SHEET 10 points
Though not biologically related, friends are as “related” as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes That is 1 a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has 2
The study is a genomewide analysis conducted 3 1,932 unique subjects which 4 pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers The same people were used in both 5
While 1% may seem 6, it is not so to a geneticist As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, “Most people do not even 7 their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who 8 our kin”
The study 9 found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now10, as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more11it There could be many mechanisms working together that12us in choosing genetically similar friends13“functional kinship” of being friends with14!
One of the remarkable findings of the study was the similar genes seem to be evolving15than other genes Studying this could help16why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major17factor
The findings do not simply explain peoples18 to befriend those of similar19backgrounds, say the researchers Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to20that all subjects, friends and strangers, were taken from the same population
1. A whenB why C how D what
2. A defendedB concludedC withdrawnD advised
3. A forB with C onD by
4. A comparedB soughtC separatedD connected
5. A testsB objects C samples D examples
6. A insignificantB unexpected C unbelievable D incredible
7. A visitB missC seekD know
8. A resembleB influenceC favor D surpass
9. A againB also C insteadD thus
10. A MeanwhileB Furthermore C LikewiseD Perhaps
11. A aboutB to C from D like
12. A driveB observe C confuse D limit
13. A according toB rather than C regardless ofD along with
14. A chancesB responses C missionsD benefits
15. A laterB slowerC faster D earlier
16. A forecastB rememberC understand D express
17. A unpredictableB contributory C controllable D disruptive
18. A endeavorB decisionC arrangement D tendency
19. A politicalB religious C ethnic D economic
20. A seeB show C prove D tell
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2015年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section Ⅱ
Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or DMark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET 40 points
◆Text 1◆
King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings dont abdicate, they die in their sleep”But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euroelections have forced him to eat his words and stand down So, does the Spanish crisis suggest