考研英语一试卷全国硕士研究生考试真题完整版（2015年）

絶密启用前2015年全囯硬士研究生招生考试英语（一）（科目代碼：201)考生注意事頊1.答題前，考生須在试題冊指定位置上填写考生編丹和考生姓名；在答題卡指定位置上填写扳考单位、考生姓名和考生編弓，并涂写考生編弓信息熹。2.考生須把试題冊上的试卷糸形碼粘貼茶取下，粘貼在答題卡的试卷糸形碼粘貼位置框中。不按規定粘貼糸形碼而影喃讠平卷結果的，貴任由考生自負。3.造拌題的答案必須涂写在答題卡相成題另的造璜上，非造拌題的答案必須节写在答題卡指定位置的辺框図域內。超出答題図域节写的答案元效；在草稿纸、试題冊上答題元效。4.填（节）写部分必須使用黑色字迹签字黽节写，字迹工整、竜迹清楚；涂写部分必須使用2B铂僊填涂。5.考试結束，将答題卡和试題冊按規定交回。（以下信息考生必颜从真填写）二二I11111111111111 I Directions:Section I Use of English Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or Don the ANSWER SHEET.(lOpoints)Though not biologically related,friends are as related as fourth cousins,sharing about 1%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 pairs 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 many mechanisms working together that 12 us m choosing genetically similar friends 13 functional kinship of being friends with 14!One of the remarkable findings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving 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 explain peoples 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 subjects,friends and strangers,were taken from the same population.1.1.A when 2.A defended 3.A for 4.A compared 5.A tests 6.A insignificant 7.A visit 8.A resemble 9.A again 10.A Meanwhile 11.A about 12.A drive 13.A according to 14.A chances 15.A later 16.A forecast 17.A unpredictable 18.A endeavor 19.A political 20.A see Part A Directions:B why C how D what B concluded C withdrawn D advised B with C on D by B sought C separated D connected B objects C samples D examples B unexpected C unreliable D incredible B miss C seek D know B influence C favor D surpass B also C instead D thus B Furthermore C Likewise D Perhaps B to C from D like B observe C confuse D limit B rather than C regardless of D along with B responses C missions D benefits B slower C faster D earlier B remember C understand D express B contributory C controllable D disruptive B decision C arrangement D tendency B religious C ethnic D economic B show C prove D tell Section II Reading Comprehension Read the following four texts.Answer the questions below each text by choosing A,B,C or D.Mark your answers on the ANSWER SHEET.(40 points).2.Text 1 King Juan Carlos of Spain once insisted kings dont abdicate,they die in their sleep.But embarrassing scandals and the popularity of the republican left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and stand down.So,does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its last days?Does that mean the writing is on the wall for all European royals,with their magnificent uniforms and majestic lifestyles?The Spanish case provides arguments both for and against monarchy.When public opinion is particularly polarised,as it was following the end of the Franco regime,monarchs can rise above mere politics and embody a spirit of national unity.It is this apparent transcendence of politics that explains monarchs continuing popularity as heads of state.And so,the Middle East excepted,Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world,with 10 kingdoms(not counting Vatican city and Andorra).But unlike their absolutist counterparts in the Gulf and Asia,most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial but respected public figure.Even so,kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside.Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be,their very history-and sometimes the way they behave today-embodies outdated and indefensible privileges and inequalities.At a time when Thomas Piketty and other economists are warning of rising inequality and the increasing power of inherited wealth,it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolic heart of modem democratic states.The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways.Princes and princesses have day-jobs and ride bicycles,not horses(or helicopters).Even so,these are wealthy families who party with the international 1%,and media intrusiveness makes it increasing