2012年考研英语二试题及答案.docVIP

12年2卷 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) Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it need to be. To the men and women who?1?in World War Ⅱand the people they liberated, the GI was the?2?man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who?3?all the burdens of battles, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the?4?of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid,?5?an average guy up?6?the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies in centuries. His name isn’t much.GI. is just a military abbreviation?7?Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles?8?to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never?9?it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka, Joe Magrac…a working class name. The United States has?10?had a president or vice- president or secretary of state Joe. GI. Joe had a?11?career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character or a?12?of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of GI. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Poly?13?portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the?14?side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were?15?or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports?16?the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men?17?the dirt and exhaustion of war, the?18?of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.19?Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, GI. Joe was American soldiers,?20?the most important person in their lives.??? 1. [A]performed[B]served[C]rebelled[