2015年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语复习练习题（1）
Section I Use of EnglishDirections:
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 need to be. To
the men and women who 1 in World War Ⅱand 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 battles, 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 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.
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. Joe, based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of
the soldiers Poly 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, GI. Joe was American
soldiers, 20 the most important person in their lives.
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10. evernevereitherneither
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13. employedappointedinterviewedquestioned
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16. paralleled counteracted duplicated contradicted
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