2008年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题
Section I Use of EnglishDirections:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is 1to say it anyway. He is that 2bird, a scientist who works independently 3any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.
5 he, however, might tremble at the 6of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only 7that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in 8 are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection.
This group generally do well in IQ test, 9 12-15 points above the 10value of 100, and have contributed 11to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the 12of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists,13 they also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, 14 ave previously been thought unrelated. The former has been 15social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 ucation. The latter was seen as a (an) 17 genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately18 is argument is that the unusual history of these people has 19 em to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this 20 ate of affairs.
1. selected prepared obliged pleased
2. unique particular special rare
3. of with in against
4. subsequently presently previously lately
5. Only So Even Hence
6. thought sight cost risk
7. advises suggests protests objects
8. progress fact need question
9. attaining scoring reaching calculating
10. normal common mean total
11. unconsciously disproportionately
indefinitely unaccountably
12. missions fortunes interests careers
13. affirm witness observe approve
14. moreover therefore however meanwhile
15. given up got over carried on put down
16. assessing supervising administering valuing
17. development origin consequence instrument
18. linked integrated woven combined
19. limited subjected converted directed
20. paradoxical incompatible inevitable continuous
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