2012考研英语二真题及参考答案思维导图

Read the following text.Choose the best word(s)for each numbered blank and mark A，B，C or D on ANSWER SHEET.(10 points)

①Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I.Joe as a mindless war toy,the symbol of American military adventurism,but that’s not how it used to be.②To the men and women who 1 in World War II and the people they liberated,the G.I.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.③This 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.

①G.I.Joe had a 11 career fighting German,Japanese,and Korean troops.②He 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 Ernie Pyle.③Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film.④Pyle 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.⑤His reports 16 the"Willie"cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden.⑥Both 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.⑦19 Egypt,France,and a dozen more countries,G.I.Joe was an American soldier,20 the most important person in their lives.