全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题及解析全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题及解析.pdf

Born to win 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) for 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 Cochran is 大1家E A to say it anyway. He is that A 大2家E A bird, a scientist who works independently A 大3家E A any institution. He helped popularize the idea that some diseases not A 大4家E A thought to have a bacterial cause were actually infections, which aroused much controversy when it was first suggested. A 大5家E A he, however, might tremble at the A 大6家E A of what he is about to do. Together with another two scientists, he is publishing a paper which not only A 大7家E A that one group of humanity is more intelligent than the others, but explains the process that has brought this about. The group in A 大8家E A are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection. This group generally do well in IQ test, A 大9家E A 12-15 points above the A 大10家E A value of 100, and have contributed A 大11家E A to the intellectual and cultural life of the West, as the A 大12家E A of their elites, including several world-renowned scientists, A 大13家E A . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, A 大14家E A , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been A 大15家E A to social effects, such