文档介绍：2012 年
Section I Use of English
Directions:
Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered black and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)
Millions of Americans and foreigners see . 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 served in World War II and the people they liberated, the . was mon man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who bore all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the necessices 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, but an average guy, up against the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
His name is not . is just a military abbreviation claiming Government Issue, and it was on all of the article hand out to soldiers. And Joe? mon name for a guy who never made it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrac… a working class name. The United States has never had a president or vicepresident or secretary of state Joe.
. joe had a distinguished career fighting German ,Japanese, and Korean troops. He appers as a character, or a collection of american personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of . Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle interviewed portrayde themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the human side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow -and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were
gained 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, o, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 19 Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, . Joe was any American soldier,