2012 年全国硕士研究生入学统一考试 英语二真题SectionSection 1 1 UseUse ofof EnglishEnglish Directions:Directions: Millions of Americansand foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of Americanmilitary adventurism, but thats not how it used to be .To the men and womenwho 1 in World War II and the people theyliberated ,the GI. was the 2) man grown into hero ,the pool farm kidtorn away from his home ,the guy who3) all the burdens of battle ,whoslept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4) of food and shelter ,whostuck it out and drove back the Nazi reign of murder .this was not a volunteersoldier ,not someone well paid ,5) an average guy ,up6 )the besttrained ,best equipped ,fiercest ,most brutal enemies seen in centuries. His name is not much.GI.is just a military abbreviation 7) Government Issue ,and it was on all of the article 8) to soldiers .And Joe? A common name for a guy whonever9) it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrac a working class name. TheUnited States has 10) had a president or vice-president or secretary ofstate Joe. GI .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 GI. Joebased on the last days of war correspondent Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiersPyle (13) portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the(14)side of the warl, writing about the dirt-snow and-mud soldiers, not howmany miles were(15)or what towns were captured or liberated, His reports(16)the“willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Bothmen(17)the dirt and exhaustion of war, the (18)of civilization that thesoldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey,shelter, sleep. (19)Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was anyAmerican soldier,(20)the most important person in their lives. 1.A performed Bserved Crebelled Dbetrayed 2.A actual Bcommon Cspecial Dnormal 3.Abore Bcased Cremoved Dloaded 4.Anecessities Bfacilitice Ccommodities Dpropertoes 5.Aand Bnor Cbut Dhence 6.Afor Binto Cform Dagainst 7.Ameaning Bimplying Csymbolizing Dclaiming 8.Ahandedout Bturnover Cbrought back Dpassed down 9.Apushed Bgot Cmade Dmanaged 10.Aever Bnever Ceither Dneither 11.Adisguised Bdisturbed Cdisputed Ddistinguished12.Acompany Bcollection Ccommunity Dcolony 13.Aemployed Bappointed Cinterviewed Dquestioned 14.Aethical Bmilitary Cpolitical Dhuman 15.Aruined Bcommuted Cpatrolled Dgained 16.Aparalleled Bcounteracted Cduplicated Dcontradicted 17.Aneglected Bavoided Cemphasized Dadmired 18.Astages Billusions Cfragments Dadvancea 19.AWith BTo CAmong DBeyond 20.Aon thecontrary B by this means Cfrom theoutset Dat that point SectionSection IIII ReadingComprehensionReadingComprehension PartPart A A Directions:Directions: ReadRead thethe followingfollowing fourtexts.fourtexts. answeranswer thethe questionquestion afterafter eacheach texttext byby choosingchoosing A,B,CA,B,C oror D.D. MarkMark youranswersyouranswers onon ANSWERANSWER SHEETSHEET 1.(401.(40 points)points) TextText 1 1 Homework has never beenterribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years ithas been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, mostrecently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educationalritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy whichmandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may nolonger count for more than 10% of a students academic grade. This rule is meant toaddress the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes mighthave in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory.Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do withoutexpensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass tostudents who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, itis going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered forpoor children. District administratorssay that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed toassign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see veylittle difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on statetests without completing their homework, but what about the students whoperformed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible thatthe homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what worksbest for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule. At the same time, thepolicy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If thedistrict finds h