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)
    
    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 Greory Cochram 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 explained 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
    
    6. [A] thought   [B] sight    [C] cost    [D] risk
    
    7. [A] advises   [B] suggests   [C] protests   [D] objects
    
    8. [A] progress   [B] fact    [C] need    [D] question
    
    9. [A] attaining   [B] scoring   [C] reaching   [D] calculating
    
    10. [A] normal   [B] common   [C] mean    [D] total
    
    11. [A] unconsciously    [B] disproportionately
    
    [C] indefinitely    [D] unaccountably
    
    12. [A] missions   [B] fortunes   [C] interests   [D] careers
    
    13. [A] affirm   [B] witness   [C] observe   [D] approve
    
    14. [A] moreover   [B] therefore   [C] however   [D] meanwhile
    
    15. [A] given up   [B] got over   [C] carried on   [D] put down
    
    16. [A] assessing   [B] supervising  [C] administering  [D] valuing
    
    17. [A] development  [B] origin    [C] consequence  [D] instrument
    
    18. [A] linked   [B] integrated   [C] woven   [D] combined
    
    19. [A] limited   [B] subjected   [C] converted   [D] directed
    
    20. [A] paradoxical    [B] incompatible  
    
    [C] inevitable     [D] continuous
    
    

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