2015考研英语一真题及答案.doc

2015考研英语一真题及答案 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) Though not biologically related, friends are as "related" as fourth cousins, sharing about 1% of genes. 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?. The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted?3??1932 unique subjects which? 4??pairs of unrelated friends and unrelated strangers. The same people were used in both? 5?. While 1% may seem? 6??, 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? 7??their fourth cousins but somehow manage to select as friends the people who? 8??our kin." The study? 9??found that the genes for smell were something shared in friends but not genes for immunity. Why this similarity exists in smell genes is difficult to explain, for now.? 10?, as the team suggests, it draws us to similar environments but there is more? 11??it. There could be many mechanisms working together that? 12?us in choosing genetically similar friends? 13??"functional kinship" of being friends with? 14??! One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving??15??than other genes. Studying this could help 16 why human evolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major? 17??factor. The findings do not simply explain people's? 18??to befriend those of similar? 19??backgrounds, say the researchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to? 20??that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken from the same population. 1. [A] when [B] why [C] how [D] what 【答案】[D] what 【解析】该题考查的是语法知识。根据句子结构和选项的特点，可以判断出空格处应填从属连词引导从句;再根据句子的内容，可以看出该从句是一项研究的相关内容(what)，不是指研究的时间(when)， 原因(why)和方式(h