2012考研英语试题 带答案

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 War II and 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 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 who never 9 _____ it to the top. Joe Blow, 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 appers 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 Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 _____ portrayde 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]facilitice [C]commodities [D]propertoes

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]advancea

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

Section II Resdiong Comprehension

Part A

Directions: Read the following four texts. answer the question after each text by choosing A,B,C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.(40 points)

Text 1

Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years it has been particularly scorned. School districts across the country, most recently Los Angeles Unified, are revising their thinking on his educational ritual. Unfortunately, L.A.

Unified has produced an inflexible policy which mandates that with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student’s academic grade.

This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing their homework. But the policy is unclear and contradictory. Certainly, no homework should be assigned that students cannot do without expensive equipment. But if the district is essentially giving a pass to students who do not do their homework because of complicated family lives, it is going riskily close to the implication that standards need to be lowered for poor children.

District administrators say that homework will still be a part of schooling: teachers are allowed to assign as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easily skip half their homework and see very little difference on their report cards. Some students might do well on state tests without completing their homework, but what about the students who performed well on the tests and did their homework? It is quite possible that the homework helped. Yet rather than empowering teachers to find what works best 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 finds homework to be unimportant to its students’ academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not make them count for almost nothing. Conversely, if homework does nothing to ensure that the homework 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 educational policy, looks into the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right.

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