2015年研究生考试英语一试题及答案详解概要1.docVIP

2015年研究生考试英语一试题（word版） 2015年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语(课程)一试题 Section I Use of English Directions: 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) 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?燼?study publishedfrom the University of California and Yale University in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, has? . The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted??932 unique subjects which?pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same peangeople were used in both?. While 1% may seem?? 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?their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who?爋ur kin. The team?燿eveloped a friendship score which can predict who will be your friend based on their genes. The study燼lso爁ound 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.?0, as the team suggests, it draws us?1similar environments but there is more to it. There could be many mechanisms working in tandem that?2us in choosing genetically similar friends?3?functional kinship of being friends with?4? One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving?5爐han other genes. Studying this could help?6爓hy human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major?7爁actor. The findings do not simply corroborate peoples?8to befriend those of similar爀t 19燽ackgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to?0that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken