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gre2015真题 GRE点题201509 导读：就爱阅读网友为您分享以下“GRE点题201509”的资讯，希望对您有所帮助，感谢您对的支持!(B) It demonstrates the need for additional research on a phenomenon mentioned earlier in the passage. (C) It underscores the importance of a trait mentioned earlier in the passage. (D) It supports an assertion made earlier in the passage. (E) It questions the evidence for a tradition mentioned earlier in the passage. Questions 1920 are based on the following passage. Founder mutations are a class of disease-causing genetic mutations, each derived from its own ancestral “founder” in whom the mutation originated. While most disease-causing mutated are found in humans at a rate of one in a few thousand to one in a few million people, founder mutation can occur at much higher rates. This apparent anomaly is partially explained by the fact that most founder mutations are recessive: only a person with copies of the affected gene from both parents becomes ill. Most people with only one copy of the gene“carriers”survive and pass the gene to offspring. Furthermore, the single copy of a founder mutation often confers a survival advantage on carriers. For example, thehemochromatosis mutation protects carriers from iron-deficiency anemia because the mutated gene allows increased efficiency of iron absorption. 19. The passage indicates which of the following about founder mutations? (A) Carriers of founder mutation may receive certain benefits from the mutated gene. (B) People who inherit founder mutations from both parents can become ill as a result. (C) Founder mutations are less likely than other mutations to be passed to offspring. 20. The author of the passage mentions the “hereditary hemochromatosis mutation” primarily in order to illustrate (A) the circumstances under which a founder mutation fails to cause a disease. (B) how difficult it is to predict the effects of founder mutations on carriers. (C) the difference between harmful founder mutation and those that are beneficial. (D) how a single copy of a founder mutation can benefit a carrier. (E) a challenge to a particular theory about the transmission of founder mutations. ? ? ? ? ? ? ? MOCK ?TEST ?8 ? ? ? Section 1 Verbal Reasoning 30 minutes, 20 Questions For questions 1 to 6, select one entry for each blank from the corresponding column of choices. Fill all blanks in the way that best completes the text. 1. Anthropologist Jane Goodall was _ in her determination to anthropomorphize the animals she observed with such empathy, and so resisted her editors attempts to recast her descriptions in more dispassionate language. A. fickle B. stalwart C. solicitous D. pretentious E. whimsical 2. The science of astronomy was begun by amateurs and today remains dependent on their contributions, which are incisive by virtue of being _ by a prior assumptions that often vitiate the work of professional research scientists. A. characterized B. unencumbered C. supported D. contradicted E. inspired 3. Far from (i) _ the actions taken by the newspapers executives, Willes praised the executives resistance to corruption yet he doubted that their policies were practical enough to warrant (ii) _ by other papers. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. lionizing D. criticism B. impugning E. admiration C. surveying F. emulation 4. In the search for truth, the knowledge gained by scientists consists of approximations with varying degrees of certainty. Such (i) _ truth can be highly (ii) _, as the rapid and the relatively steady progress of medical knowledge well exemplifies. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. unambiguous D. useful B. esoteric E. equivocal C. provisional F. contentious 5. The prosecutor belied his hard-boiled reputation by submitting (i) _ queries to the witness and accepting in turn (ii) _ responses. Blank (i) Blank (ii) A. innocuous D. evasive B. quizzical E. elaborate C. impertinent F. informative 6. The cowbird can seem a rather comical creature with a slow, awkward walk and often upraised tail. Less (i)_ is the cowbirds habit of laying their eggs in the nests of other birds. The (ii)_ nesters will usually accept the cowbird egg and raise the baby cowbird as their own. Unfortunately, cowbird eggs hatch sooner than the eggs of other species and the young cowbirds (iii)_, using their size to their advantage in getting more food from the parents. Blank (i) Blank (ii) Blank (ii) A. amusing D. feckless G. grow quickly B. painful E. resistant H. leave the nest C. galling F. unwitting I. share their food Questions 7 and 8 are based on the following passage. While historian Linda Nicholson sees womens participation in voluntary associations as activities consistent with the increasing relegation of womens lives to a separate, “private” sphere in nineteenth-century Europe, historian Katherine Lynch argues that these kinds of activities enabled women to join with one another and to develop a kind of shadow citizenship within civil society, if not the formal state. These kinds of experiencesactual political entitlements, Lynch suggests, but they deserve more attention for their importance in helping individuals forge enduring bonds of community and identity beyond domestic life. Only by limiting ones notion of public life to formal political participation, she says, can one conclude that most women in Western society have ever been literally consigned to a separate or “private” sphere.