考研英语真题及答案解析(2008年卷二).docx

企 企学诚考研资料 企 企学诚考研资料 学遮敎肓 XUE CHENG EDUCATION 考研资料 2008年全国研究生入学考试（二）及参考答案（精校版）英语 学诚考研资料 第 第 PAGE #页共42页 学诚考研资料 第 第 PAGE #页共42页 2008年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语试题 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) fbr 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 Cocliran is to say it anyway. He is that bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4 thouglit 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 wliich 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 are a paiticular people originated fioin central Europe. The process is natural selection. This group generally do well in IQ test. 9 12-15 points above the 12 value of 100, and have contributed LL to tlie intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the 12 of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, J , have previously been thouglit unrelated. The former has been to social effects, such as a strong tiadition of M education. The latter was seen as a (an) IZ of genetic isolation. Dr. Cocluan suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately His argument is that the unusual history of these people has them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this * state of affairs. selected prepared obliged pleased 会学诚考研资料 会学诚考研资料 第 第 PAGE #页共42页 会学诚考研资料 会学诚考研资料 第 第 PAGE #页共42页 金 金学诚考研资料 第 第 PA