跨考独家：2012年考研英语二真题及答案完整版

　　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 used to be. To the men and women who __1__in World WarⅡand 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 __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 seen 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.

　　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 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, G.I. Joe was any American soldier, __20__ the most important person in their lives.

　　1.[A] performed [B] served [C] rebelled [D] betrayed

　　2.[A] actual [B] common [C] special [D] normal

　　3.[A] bore [B] cased [C] removed [D] loaded

　　4.[A] necessities [B] facilities [C] commodities [D] properties

　　5.[A] and [B] nor [C] but [D] hence

　　6.[A] for [B] into [C] form [D] against

　　7.[A] meaning [B] implying [C] symbolizing [D] claiming

　　8.[A] handed out [B] turn over [C] brought back [D] passed down

　　9.[A] pushed [B] got [C] made [D] managed

　　10.[A] ever [B] never [C] either [D] neither

　　11.[A] disguised [B] disturbed [C] disputed [D] distinguished

　　12.[A] company [B] collection [C] community [D] colony

　　13.[A] employed [B] appointed [C] interviewed [D] questioned

　　14.[A] ethical [B] military [C] political [D] human

　　15.[A] ruined [B] commuted [C] patrolled [D] gained

　　16.[A] paralleled [B] counteracted [C] duplicated [D] contradicted

　　17.[A] neglected [B] avoided [C] emphasized [D] admired

　　18.[A] stages [B] illusions [C] fragments [D] advances

　　19.[A] With [B] To [C] Among [D] Beyond

　　20.[A] on the contrary [B] by this means [C] from the outset [D] at that point