考研英语二真题试题及答案.docx

1、考研英语二真题试题及答案2012年考研英语(二)真题试题及答案Section 1 Use of Eninglish Directions : Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI.Joe as a mindless war toy ,the symbol of American military adventurism, but thats not how it used to be .To the men and women who 1 )in World War II and the people they liberated ,the G

2、I.was the 2) man grown into hero ,the pool 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

3、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

4、.Joe Blow ,Joe Magrac a working class name.The United States has 10) had a president or vicepresident 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.

5、 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 warl, writing about the dirt-snow and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were(15)or what towns were captured or liberated, His r

6、eports(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

7、. Joe was any American soldier,(20)the most important person in their lives. 1.A performed Bserved Crebelled Dbetrayed 2.A actual Bcommon Cspecial Dnormal 3.Abore Bcased Cremoved Dloaded 4.Anecessities Bfacilitice Ccommodities Dpropertoes 5.Aand Bnor Cbut Dhence 6.Afor Binto C form Dagainst 7.Ameani

8、ng Bimplying Csymbolizing Dclaiming 8.Ahanded out Bturn over Cbrought back Dpassed down 9.Apushed Bgot Cmade Dmanaged 10.Aever Bnever Ceither Dneither 11.Adisguised Bdisturbed Cdisputed Ddistinguished 12.Acompany Bcollection Ccommunity Dcolony 13.Aemployed Bappointed Cinterviewed Dquestioned 14.Aeth

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10、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 recen

11、t 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, home

12、work may no longer count for more than 10% of a students 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

13、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

14、 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 on their report cards. Some students might do well o

15、n 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-bo

16、ard 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 hom

17、ework 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

18、not too late for L.A. Unified to do homework right. 21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_. A is receiving more criticism Bis no longer an educational ritual Cis not required for advanced courses Dis gaining more preferences 22.L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly bec

19、ause poor students_. Atend to have moderate expectations for their education Bhave asked for a different educational standard Cmay have problems finishing their homework Dhave voiced their complaints about homework 23.According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may_. Adiscourage

20、students from doing homework Bresult in students indifference to their report cards Cundermine the authority of state tests Drestrict teachers power in education 24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether_. A it should be eliminated Bit counts much in school

21、ing Cit places extra burdens on teachers Dit is important for grades 25.A suitable title for this text could be_. AWrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy BA Welcomed Policy for Poor Students CThorny Questions about Homework DA Faulty Approach to Homework Text2 Pretty in pink: adult women do n

22、ot rememer being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls lives. Tt is not that pink is intrinsically bad, but it is such a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fuses girls identity to appearance. Then it

23、 presents that connection, even among two-year-olds, between girls as not only innocent but as evidence of innocence. Looking around, I despaired at the singular lack of imagination about girls lives and interests. Girls attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but acco

24、rding to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of American Studies, it is 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 clean was to boil them. What

25、s more, both boys and girls wore what were thought of as gender-neutral dresses.When nursery colours were introduced, pink was actually considered the more masculine colour, a pastel version of red, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and fait

26、hfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant childrens marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, when it began to seem inherently attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the firs

27、t few critical years. I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kins, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. Take the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into childrens

28、 behaviour: wrong. Turns out, acdording to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing trick by clothing manufacrurers in the 1930s. Trade publications counselled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a “third stepping stone”

29、between infant wear and older kids clothes. Tt was only after “toddler”became a common shoppers term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults,into ever-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment

30、a market is to magnify gender differences or invent them where they did not previously exist. 26.By saying it is.the rainbow(Line 3, Para.1),the author means pink_. Ashould not be the sole representation of girlhood Bshould not be associated with girls innocence Ccannot explain girls lack of imagina

31、tion Dcannot influence girls lives and interests 27.According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours？ AColours are encoded in girls DNA. BBlue used to be regarded as the colour for girls. CPink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders. DWhite is prefered by babies. 28.The author suggests that our perception of childrens psychological development was much influenced by_. Athe marketing of