2012年考研英语（二）真题（解析卷）.pdf

12012 年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）试题年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）试题National Entrance Test of English for MA/MSCandidates (NETEM)Section Use of EnglishDirections:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or DonANSWER SHEET 1. ( 10 points)Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American militaryadventurism, but thats not how it used to be. To the men and women who1in World Warand the peoplethey liberated, the GI. was the2man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guywho3all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the4of 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,5an average guy up6the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.His name isnt much. GI. is just a military abbreviation7.Government Issue, and it was on all of thearticles8to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never9it to the top. Joe Blow, JoePalooka. Joe Magrac.a working class name. The United States has 10had a president or vice-president orsecretary of state Joe.G.I. Joe had a11career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character. or a12of American personalities, in the 1945 movie The Story of G.I. Joe, based on the last days of warcorrespondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle13portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famousfor covering the14side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers not how many miles were15or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports16the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars andStripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men17the dirt and exhaustion of war, the18of civilization that thesoldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.19Egypt, France,and a dozen more countries, G.I. Joe was anyAmerican soldier,20the most important person in their lives.1.A performedB servedC rebelledD betrayed2.A actualB commonC specialD normal3.A boreB casedC removedD loaded4.A necessitiesB facilitiesC commoditiesD properties5.A andB norC butD hence6.A forB intoC formD against7.A meaningB implyingC symbolizingD claiming8.A handed outB turn overC brought backD passed down9.A pushedB gotC madeD managed10.A everB neverC eitherD neither11.A disguisedB disturbedC disputedD distinguished12.A companyB collectionC communityD colony13.A employedB appointedC interviewedD questioned14.A ethicalB militaryC politicalD human全国硕士研究生入学考试英语（二）真题第 1 页，共 43 页215.A ruinedB commutedC patrolledD gained16.A paralleledB counteractedC duplicatedD contradicted17.A neglectedB avoidedC emphasizedD admired18.A stagesB illusionsC fragmentsD advances19.A WithB ToCAmongD Beyond20.A on the contrary B by this meansC from the outsetD at that pointSection Reading ComprehensionText 1Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it hasbeen particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising theirthinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A. Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandatesthat with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of astudents academic grade.This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have incompleting their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should beassigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass tostudents who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to theimplication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.District administrators say that homework will still be a pat of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign asmuch of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easilyskip half their homework and see vey little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on statetests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did theirhomework? It is quite possible that the 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, the policy addresses none of the truly thorny questions about homework. If the district findshomework to be unimportant to its students academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate theassignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework does nothing to ensure that thehomework students are not assigning more than they are willing to review and correct.The homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educa。