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2015 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（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 the ANSWER SHEET. (10 points) ① Though not biologically related, friends are as “related ” as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. ② That is 1 a study, published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , has 2 . ① The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted 3 1,932 unique subjects which 4 pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. ② The same people were used in both 5 . ①While 1% may seem 6 , it is not so to a geneticist. ②As James Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UC San Diego, says, “Most people do not even7 their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who 8 our kin. ” ① The study 9 found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. ②Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now. ③ 10 , as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more 11 it. ④ There could be many mechanisms working together that 12 us in choosing genetically similar friends 13 “functional kinship ” of being friends with14 ! ① One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving 15 than other genes. ② Studying this could help 16 why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a