文档介绍：2008年硕士研究生入学考试考研英语真题答案
第一部分 USE OF ENGLISH
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10points)
The idea that some groups of people may be intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. But Gregory Cochran is 1 to say it any way. He is that 2 bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4 thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested.
5 he, however, might tremble at the 6 of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only 7 that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, hut 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 10 value of 100, and have contributed 11 to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the
12 of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, 13 . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty ic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, 14 , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been 15 to social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 education. The latter was seen as a (an) 17 of ic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has 19 them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this 20 state of affairs.
1.[A]selected [B]prepared [C]obliged [D]Pleased
2.[A]unique [B]particular [C]special [D]rare
3.[A]of [B]with [C]in [D]against
4.[A]subsequently [B]presently [C]previously [D]lately
5.[A]Only [B]So [C]Even [D]Hence
6.[A]thought [B]sight [C