2008年考研英语（一）真题.docx

2008年全国硕士研究生入统一考试 英语（一） （目代码：201） （考试时间：上午1400-1700） 考生注意事项 1.答题前，考生须在试题册指定位置填写考生姓名和考生编号；在答题卡指定位置填写报考单位、考生姓名和考生编号，并涂写考生编号信息点。 2.选择题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。 3.填（书）写部分必须使用黑色签字笔或者钢笔书写，字迹工整、笔迹清楚；涂写部分必须使用 2B 铅笔填涂。 4.考试结束，将答题卡和试题册按规定交回。 2008年全国硕士研究生入考试英语（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 ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) ①The idea that some groups of people may be more intelligent than others is one of those hypotheses that dare not speak its name. ②But Gregory Cochran is 1 to say it anyway. ③He is that 2 bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. ④He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not 4 thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested. ① 5 he, however, might tremble at the 6 of what he is about to do. ②Together with another two scientists, he is 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. ③The group in 8 are a particular people originated from central Europe. ④The process is natural selection. ①This group generally do well in IQ test, 9 12-15 points above the 10 value of 100, and have contributed 11 to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the 12 of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, 13 . ②They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. ③These facts, 14 , have previously been thought unrelated. ④The former has been 15 to social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 education. ⑤The latter was seen as a(n) 17 of genetic isolation. ⑥Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 .⑦His argument is that the unusual history of these