2015 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语一试题Section 1 Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D onANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)Though not biologically related, friends are as related as fourth cousins,sharing about 1% of genes. That is 1 astudy published from the University of California and Yale University in the Proceedings of the NationalAcademy of Sciences, has 2 .The study is a genome-wide analysis conducted 3 1932 unique subjects which4 pairs of unrelated friends andunrelated strangers. The same people were used in both 5 .While 1% may seem6 , it is not so to a geneticist. AsJames Fowler, professor of medical genetics at UCSan Diego, says, Most people do not even 7 their fourthcousins 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 friendsbut not genes for immunity. Whythis similarity in olfactory genes is difficult to explain, for now. 10Perhaps, as the team suggests, it draws us tosimilar environments but there is more 11 it. There could be many mechanismsworking in tandem that 12 us inchoosing genetically similar friends 13 than nal kinship of being friendswith 14 !One of the remarkablefindings of the study was that the similar genes seem to be evolving 15 than other genes. Studying this couldhelp 16 why humanevolution picked pace in the last 30,000 years, with social environment being a major 17factor.The findings do not simply corroborate peoples 18 to befriend those of similar 19 backgrounds, say theresearchers. Though all the subjects were drawn from a population of European extraction, care was taken to 20that all subjects, friends and strangers were taken from the samepopulation.The team also controlled the data to check ancestry of subjects.Section II Reading Comprehension1、 What2、 Concluded223、 On4、 Compared5、 Samples6、 Insignificant7、 Know8、 Resemble9、 Also10、 Perhaps12 、 Drive13 、 Ratherthan14 、 Benefits15 、 Faster16 、 understand17 、 Contributory18 、 Tendency19 、 Ethnic20 、 see23Part ARead the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text bychoosing A, B, C or D. Markyour answers on ANSWER SHEET 1. (40 points)原标题： 2015 年考研英语一真题答案(完整版)King Juan Carlos of Spain once insistedkings dont abdicate, they die in their sleep. But embarrassing scandalsand the popularity of the republicans left in the recent Euro-elections have forced him to eat his words and standdown. So, does the Spanish crisis suggest that monarchy is seeing its lastdays? Does that mean the writing is onthe 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 particularlypolarized, as it was following the end of the France regime, monarchs canrise above mere polities and embodya spirit of national unity.It is this apparent transcendence of polities that explains monarchys continuing popularity as heads of state. Andso, the Middle East expected, Europe is the most monarch-infested region in the world, with 10 kingdoms (not counting Vatican City and Andorra). But unlike their absolutist counterpartsin the Gulf and Asia, most royal families have survived because they allow voters to avoid the difficult search for a non-controversial butrespected public figure.Even so, kings and queens undoubtedly have a downside. Symbolic of national unity as they claim to be, theirvery history-and sometimes the way they behave today-embodies outdated and indefensible privileges andinequalities. At a time when ThomasPiketty and other economists are warming of rising inequality and theincreasing power of inherited wealth, it is bizarre that wealthy aristocratic families should still be the symbolicheart of modern democratic states.The most successful monarchies strive to abandon or hide their old aristocratic ways. Princes and princesseshave day-jobs and ride bicycles, not horses (or helicopters). Even so, these are wealthy families who party withthe international1%, and media intrusiveness makes it increasinglydifficult to maintain the right image.While Europes monarchies will no doubt be smart enough to survive for sometime to come, it is the Britishroyals who have most to fear from the Spanish example.24It is only the Queen who has preserved the monarchys reputation with her rather ordinary (if well-heeled)granny style. The danger will come with Charles, who has both an expensivetaste of lifestyle and a prettyhierarchical view of the world. He has failed to understand that monarchies have largely survived because theyprovide a service-as non-controversial and non-political heads of state.Charles ought to know that as Englishhistory shows, it is kings, not republicans, who are the mo