2012年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语（二）真题.PDFVIP

2012年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语 （二）真题 SectionI UseofEnglish Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank andmark [A], [B], [C]or [D]onANSWER SHEET 1.( 10points) Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s not how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War and thepeople they liberated, the G.I. Ⅱ was the 2 man grown into hero,thepoor farm kid torn away from hishome,the guy who 3 all theburdens ofbattle,who slept in cold foxholes,whowent without the 4 of food and shelter, who stuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. Thiswas not a volunteer soldier,not someone well paid, 5 an average guy up 6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name isnt much. G.I. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue,and it wason all ofthe articles 8 to soldiers.AndJoe， acommon 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 ofstateJoe. G.I. 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 G.I. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 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