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1、最新整理考研英语高分备考资料本文档中包含考研英语历年真题、考研高频词组汇编、考研口语复习资料汇总等内容,对研究生的考试有很好的帮助作用。2012年研究生考试英语历年真题Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A,B,C or Don ANSWER SHEET 1.(10 points) Millions of Americans and foreigners see GLJoe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of
2、 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 tom away from his home, the guy who 3 all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went w
3、ithout 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 oHis name isnt much. GI. is just a military abbre
4、viation 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。G.I. Joe had a 11 care
5、er fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He 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. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous fbr covering
6、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 “Winie“ cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exhaustion of war, the 18 of civilization that the so
7、ldiers 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 o1 .A performed B served C rebelled D betrayed2 .A actual B common C special D normal3
8、.A bore B cased C removed D loaded4 .A necessities B facilities C commodities D properties5 .A and B nor C but D hence6 .A for B into C form D against7 .A meaning B implying C symbolizing D claiming8 .A handed out B turn over C brought back D passed down9 .A pushed B got C made D managed10 .A ever B
9、 never C either D neither1 l.A disguised B disturbed C disputed D distinguished12 .A company B collection C community D colony13 .A employed B appointed C interviewed D questioned14 .A ethical B military C political D human15 .A ruined B commuted C patrolled D gained16 .A paralleled B counteracted C
10、 duplicated D contradicted17 .A neglected B avoided C emphasized D admired18 .A stages B illusions C fragments D advances19 .A With B To C Among D Beyond20 .A on the contrary B by this means C from the outset D at that pointSection II Reading ComprehensionText 1Homework has never been terribly popul
11、ar 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 th
12、at with the exception of some advanced courses, homework may no longer count for more than 10% of a student s academic grade oThis 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 contradic
13、tory. 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 l
14、owered for poor children0District administrators say that homework will still be a pat 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 vey little difference
15、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 thei
16、r 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 students5 academic achievement, it should move to reduce or eliminate the assignments, not ma
17、ke 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 correctoThe homework rules should be put on hold while the school board, which is responsible for setting educational policy, looks i
18、nto the matter and conducts public hearings. It is not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework righto21.1 t is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework 0A is receiving more criticismBis no longer an educational ritualCis not required for advanced coursesDis gaining more preferences22 .L.A.Unif
19、ied has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students oAtend to have moderate expectations for their educationBhave asked for a different educational standardCmay have problems finishing their homework Dhave voiced their complaints about homework23 .According to Paragraph 3,one problem w
20、ith the policy is that it may。Adiscourage students from doing homeworkBresult in students indifference to their report cards Cundermine the authority of state testsDrestrict teachers power in education24 . As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether.A it should b
21、e eliminatedBit counts much in schoolingCit places extra burdens on teachers Dit is important for grades25.A suitable title for this text could be oA Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy BA Welcomed Policy for Poor StudentsCThorny Questions about Homework DA Faulty Approach to Homework Text
22、 2Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girlsJ lives. It is not that pink intrinsically bad, but it is a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fused girls ide
23、ntity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls lives and interests oGirls* attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow enc
24、oded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, its not. Children were not colour-coded at all until the early 20th century: in the era before domestic washing machines all babies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes cle
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