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  3. The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequenci

The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequenci

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问题     The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian
cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is
helping scientists draw a surprising complex new picture of human origins, 1.______
    The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian 2.______
cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is 3. ______
helping scientists draw a surprising complex new picture of human origins,
    Instead, the genetic analysis shows, modern humans encountered and
breed with at least two groups of ancient humans in relatively recent times: 4.______
the Neanderthals, who lived in Europe and Asia, dying of roughly 30,000 5.______
years ago, and a mysterious group known as the Denisovans, who lived in
Asia and the most likely vanished around the same time. 6.______
    Their DNA lives on in us since they are extinct. "In a sense, we are a hybrid 7.______
species," Chris Stringer, a paleoanthropologist who is the research leader in
human origins at the Natural History Museum in London, said in an interview.
    The Denisovans were first described a year ago in a groundbreaking
paper in the journal Nature, which made it possible by genetic sequencing 8.______
of the girl’s pinky bone and of an oddly shaped molar from a young adult.
    Those findings have unleashed a spate of new analysis. 9.______
    Scientists are trying to envision the ancient couplings and their
consequences: when and where they took place, how they happened, how many
produced offspring and what affect the archaic genes have on humans today. 10.______
    Other scientists are trying to learn more about the Denisovans: who
they were, where they lived and how they became extinct.  
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答案of—out
解析 本题为介词误用。die of表示“死于……原因”，而die out表示“灭绝”。本句提及那群古人早在大约3万年前已经从地球上消失了，故用后者。
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