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考研英语真题英语一真题完整版 Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,Cor D on ANSWER SHEET.(10 points) Though not biologically related, friends are as “relatedas fourth cousins, sharing about1%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)__ 1,932 unique subjects which (4)p airs 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 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 manymechanisms working together that _ (12)_us in choosing genetically similar friends_(13)_ functional Kinshipof being friends Oneof the remarkable findings of the study was the similar genes seem to be evolution_(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 exp lain 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