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2017考研双语新闻阅读：基因揭晓狗的来源 考研英语阅读提分要多看多练多总结，很多题材都离不开时事新闻，大家平时要多注意阅读一些双语新闻，提升词汇量，拓展知识面。下面凯程网考研频道分享双语新闻阅读，大家要多练练。 2017考研双语新闻阅读：基因揭晓狗的来源 　　Where do dogs come from 狗是从哪里来的 Gray wolves are their ancestors. Scientists are pretty consistent about that. And researchershave suggested that dogs’ origins can be traced to Europe, the Near East, Siberia and SouthChina. 　　灰狼是狗的祖先。在这件事上，科学家们的意见相当一致。研究人员认为，狗的起源可以追溯到欧洲、近东、西伯利亚和中国南方。 　　Central Asia is the newest and best candidate, according to a large study of dogs from aroundthe world. 　　对世界各地犬只进行的一项大型研究最新显示，狗最有可能的起源地是中亚。 　　Laura M. Shannon and Adam R. Boyko at Cornell University, and an international group of otherscientists, studied not only purebred dogs, but also street or village dogs — the free-rangingscavengers that make up about 75 percent of the planet’s one billion dogs. 　　康奈尔大学 Cornell University 的劳拉·M·莎伦 Laura M. Shannon 和亚当·R·博伊科 Adam R. Boyko 与其他科学家一起，组成了一个国际研究小组。该小组不只调查纯种犬，也包括街上或乡村里的狗——全球共有十亿只狗，其中大约75%是自由来去的流浪狗。 　　Dr. Shannon analyzed three different kinds of DNA, Dr. Boyko said, the first time this has beendone for such a large and diverse group of dogs, more than 4,500 dogs of 161 breeds and549 village dogs from 38 countries. That allowed the researchers to determine whichgeographic groups of modern dogs were closest to ancestral populations genetically. And thatled them to Central Asia as the place of origin for dogs in much the same way that geneticstudies have located the origin of modern humans in East Africa. 　　莎伦博士分析了三种不同类型的DNA，博伊科博士说，这是第一次对如此众多、如此多样化的犬只进行研究，包括了161个品种的逾4500只狗，以及来自38个国家的549只乡村狗。因此研究人员能够分析出哪些现代犬只的地理群落在基因上最接近其祖先群体。基因研究确定了现代人类起源于东非，而他们也采用大致一样的方式，确定了犬类的起源地是中亚。 　　The analysis, Dr. Boyko said, pointed to Central Asia, including Mongolia and Nepal, as theplace where “all the dogs alive today” come from. The data did not allow precise dating of theorigin, he said, but showed it occurred at least 15,000 years ago. They reported their findingsMonday in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. 　　博伊科博士