考研2012英语（二）真题.pdfVIP

新东方在线考研英语讲义 2012年全国硕士研究生招生考试 英语二试题 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) ① 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. ② To the men and women who 1 in World War Ⅱ and the people they liberated, the G.I. was the 2 man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, 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. ③This was 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. ①His name isn ’t much. G.I. is just a military abbreviation 7 Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles 8 to soldiers. ②And Joe? ③A common name for a guy who never 9 it to the top. ④Joe Blow, Joe Palooka, Joe Magrac... a working class name. ⑤The United States has 10 had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe. ① G.I. Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. ② 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 Ernie Pyle. ③ Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. ④ 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