全国硕士研究生入学考试英语试题
National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates
(NETEM)
试题册
(180分钟)
注意事项
1. 严格遵守考场规则，考生得到监考人员指令后方可开始答题。
2. 答题前，考生应将答题卡上的“考生姓名”、“报考单位”、“考试语种”、“考生编号”等信息填写清楚，并与准考证上的一致。
3. 本试题的答案必须填写在规定的答题卡上，仅写在试题册上不给分。
4. 英语知识运用、阅读理解A节的答案必须按要求直接填涂在答题卡1上，阅读理解B节和写作部分的答案必须写在答题卡2上。
5. 各项填涂部分一律用2B铅笔按照答题卡上的要求填涂。如要改动，必须用橡皮擦干净。
6. 阅读理解部分B节和写作部分必须用蓝（黑）圆珠笔在答题卡2上答题。注意字迹清楚。
7. 考试结束后，将答题卡1、答题卡2一并装入原试卷袋中，试题交给监考人员。
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, 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 1 to say it anyway. He is that 2 bird, a scientist who works independently 3 any institution. He 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.
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 which 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 8 are a particular people originated from central Europe. The process is natural selection.
This 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 . They also suffer more often than most people from a number of nasty genetic diseases, such as breast cancer. These facts, 14 , have previously been thought unrelated. The former has been 15 to social effects, such as a strong tradition of 16 education. The latter was seen as a (an) 17 of genetic isolation. Dr. Cochran suggests that the intelligence and diseases are intimately 18 . His argument is that the unusual history of these people has 19 them to unique evolutionary pressures that have resulted in this 20 state of affairs.
1. [A] selected
[B] prepared
[C] obliged
[D] pleased
2. [A] unique
[B] particular
[C] special
[D] rare
3. [A] of
[B] with
[C] in
[D] against
4. [A] subsequently
[B] presently
[C] previously
[D] lately
5. [A] Only
[B] So
[C] Even
[D] Hence
