文档介绍：-1- 2012 年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语二试题 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) Millions of Americans and foreigners see asa mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that ’snot how it used to be. To the men and women who 1 in World War Ⅱ and 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 battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4of food and shelter, who stuck itout and drove back the Nazi reign of murder. This was not a volunteer soldier, not someone well paid, 5 an average guy up6 the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name isn't much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue, and it was on allof the articles 8 to soldiers. And Joe? mon 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. . Joe had a11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears asa character. ora12of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of . 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 15or 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 18of 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, 20 the most important person in their lives. 1.[A] performed [