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绝密★启用前 2008年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语 (一) (科目代码:201 ) ???????????? 试卷条形码粘贴位置 考生注意事项 ???????????? 1.答题前,考生须在试题册指定位置上填写考生编号和考生姓名;在答题卡指定位 置上填写报考单位、考生姓名和考生编号,并涂写考生编号信息点。 2.考生须把试题册上的“试卷条形码”粘贴条取下,粘贴在答题卡的“试卷条形码粘 贴位置”框中。不按规定粘贴条形码而影响评卷结果的,责任由考生自负。 3.选择题的答案必须涂写在答题卡相应题号的选项上,非选择题的答案必须书写在 答题卡指定位置的边框区域内。超出答题区域书写的答案无效;在草稿纸、试题 册上答题无效。 4.填(书)写部分必须使用黑色字迹签字笔书写,字迹工整、笔迹清楚;涂写部分必须 使用2B铅笔填涂。 5.考试结束,将答题卡和试题册按规定交回。 (以下信息考生必须认真填写) 考生编号 考生姓名 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word (s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C orD on ANSWER SHEET 1.(10points) The idea that some groups of people may be moreintelligentthan othersis one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name .But Gregory Cochran is 1 to sayit anyway . He is that 2 bird ,a scientist who works independently 3 any institution . H e helped popularize the idea that so m e diseases not 4 thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections , which aroused m uch controversy when it was first suggested . 5 he, however, might tremble at the 6 of what heis aboutto do. Together with another two scientists ,heis 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 fro m central Europe . The process is natural selection . This group generally do wellin IQ test, 9 12-15 points above the 10 valu e of 100 ,and have contributed 11 to the intellectual and culturallife of the W est,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 . T hese facts , 14 ,have previously been thought unrelated . The former has been 15 to social effects ,such as a strong tradition of 16 education .Thelatter was seen as a (an ) 17 of genetic isolation . Dr . Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 . His argumentis tha