2015年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语一试题
Section I U of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choo the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
We have more genes in common with people we pick to be our friends than with strangers.
Though not biologically related, friends are as "related" as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. That is 1 a study publishedfrom the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has 2 .
The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted 3 1932 unique subjects which 4 pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were ud in both 5.
复方大青叶While 1% may em 6 , it is not so to a geneticist. As co-author of the study James Fowler,
professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego says, "Most people do not even 7their fourth cousins but somehow manage to lect as friends the people who 8 our kin."
The team 9 developed a "friendship score" which can predict who will be your friend bad on their genes.
The study also found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. Why this similarity in olfactory genes is difficult to explain, for now. 10, as the team suggests, it draws us 11similar environments but there is more to it. There could be many mechanisms working in tandem that 12us in choosing genetically similar friends 13 "functional kinship" of being friends with 14 !
One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes em to be evolving 15 than other genes. Studying this could help 16 虾煮多长时间why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major 17 factor.
The findings do not simply corroborate people's 18to befriend tho of similar 幼师个人简历模板et 19 backg
rounds, say the rearchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to 20that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken from the same population. The team also controlled the data to check ancestry of subjects.
1.曾轶可狮子座
[A] when [B] why [C] how [D] what
2.[A] defended [B] concluded [C] withdrawn [D] advid
3.[A] for [B] with [C] on [D] by
4.[A] compared [B] sought [C] parated [D] connected
5.[A] tests [B] objects [C] samples [D] examples
6.[A] insignificant [B] unexpected [C] unreliable [D] incredible
7.[A] visit [B] miss [C] ek [D] know
8.[A] remble [B] influence [C] favor [D] surpass
9.[A] again [B] also [C] instead [D] thus
10.[A] Meanwhile [B] Furthermore [C] Likewi [D] Perhaps
安全教育中班教案11.[A] about [B] to [C] from [D] like
12.[A] drive [B] obrve [C] confu [D] limit
13.[A] according to [B] rather than [C] regardless of [D] along with
14.[A] chances [B] respons [C] missions [D] benefits
午餐菜谱15.[A] later [B] slower [C] faster [D] earlier
16.[A] forecast [B] remember [C] understand [D] express
17.[A] unpredictable [B] contributory [C] controllable [D] disruptive
18.[A] endeavor [B] decision [C] arrangement [D] tendency
19.[A] political [B] religious [C] ethnic [D] economic
20.[A] e [B] show [C] prove [D] tell
Section Ⅱ自解压文件Reading Comprehension
Part A
Directions:
Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)
Text1
King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted “kings don’t abdicate, they die in their sleep.” But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is eing its last days? Does that mean the writing is on the wall f
or all European royals, with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?
The Spanish ca provides arguments both for and against monarchy. When public opinion is particularly polarid, as it was following the end of the Franco regime, monarchs can ri above “mere”politics and “embody” a spirit of national unity.
It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs’ continuing popularity as heads of state. And so, the Middle East excepted, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived becau they allow voters to avoid the difficult arch for a non-controversial but respected public figure.
日本和尚 Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, their very history—and sometimes the way they behave today——embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities. At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of
inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modern democratic states.
