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2009年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语（一） （科目代码：201） （考试时间：上午14:00-17:00） 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。 2009年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（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) ①Research on animal intelligence always makes us wonder just how smart humans are. ② 1 the fruit-fly experiments described by Carl Zimmer in the Science Times. ③Fruit flies who were taught to be smarter than the average fruit fly 2to live shorter lives. ④This suggests that 3bulbs burn longer, that there is a(n) 4in not being too bright. ①Intelligence, it 5, is a high-priced option. ②It takes more upkeep, burns more fuel and is slow 6the starting line because it depends on learning—a(n) 7process—instead of instinct. ③Plenty of other species are able to learn, and one of the things they’ve apparently learned is when to 8. ①Is there an adaptive value to 9intelligence? ②That’s the question behind this new research. ③Instead of casting a wistful glance 10at all the species we’ve left in the dust I.Q.-wise, it implicitly asks what the real 11of our own intelligence might be. ④This is 12the mind of every animal we’ve ever met. ①Research on animal intelligence also makes us wonder what experiments animals would 13on humans if they had the chance. ②Every cat with an owner, 14, is running a small-scale study in operant conditioning. ③We believe that 15animals ran the labs, they would test us to 16the limits of our patience, our faithfulness, our memory for locations. ④They would try to decide what intelligence in humans is really 17, not merely how much of it there is. ⑤18, they would hope to study a(n) 19question: Are humans actually aware of the world they live in? ⑥20the results are inconclusive.(278 word