2008年全国英语硕士研究生入学统一考试试题（含答案）.docVIP

绝密☆启用前 2008年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英 语 (科目代码：201) 考生注意事项 1．考生必须严格遵守各项考场规则。 2．答题前，考生应按准考证上的有关内寄填写答题卡上的“考生姓 名”、“报考单位”、“考生编号”等信息。 3．答案必须按要求涂写或填写在指定的答题卡上。 (1) 英语知识运用和阅读理解A节、B节的答案用2B铅笔涂 写在答题卡1上。如要改动，必须用橡反擦干净。 (2) 阅读理解C节 (英译英) 的答案和作文必须用蓝（黑）色迹钢笔、圆珠笔或签字笔写在答题卡2上。 字迹要清楚。 4．考试结束，将答题卡1、答题卡2及试题一并装入试题袋中交回。 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) 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 1 to say it anyway. 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, 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 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 genetic 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 t