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1、考研英语二真题已排版好可直接打印实用文档 2012年全国硕士研究生入学考试英语二试题 National Entrance Test of English for MA/MS Candidates (NETEM) Section Use of English 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 foreign

2、ers 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 Warand 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

3、 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.

4、. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue, and it His name isnt much. GI 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-presiden

5、t or secretary of state Joe. G.I. Joe had a 11 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as The Story of G.I. Joe, a character. or a 12 of American personalities, in the 1945 movie based on the last days of war correspondent Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed the

6、mselves 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 Stars and cartoons of famedWillie”were captured or liberated. His reports 16 the “ Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men 17 the dirt and exh

7、austion 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

8、 D betrayed 2.A actual B common C special D normal 3.A bore B cased C removed D loaded 4.A necessities B facilities C commodities D properties 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 passe

9、d down 实用文档 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 commu

10、ted 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 advances 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 Reading Co

11、mprehension 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. Un

12、ified 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 students academic grade. This rule is meant to address the difficulty that students from impoverished or chaotic homes might have in completing

13、 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 risk

14、ily close to the implication 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 as much of it as they want. But with homework counting for no more than 10% of their grades, students can easil

15、y skip half their homework and see vey 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

16、than empowering teachers to find what works best for their students, the policy imposes a flat, across-the-board rule. 实用文档 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,

17、 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 boar

18、d, 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. 21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_. A is receiving more criticism Bis no longer an educational ritual Cis not req

19、uired for advanced courses Dis gaining more preferences 22.L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because 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 the

20、ir complaints about homework 23.According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may_. Adiscourage 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 Para

21、graph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is whether_. A it should be eliminated Bit counts much in schooling 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 Po

22、or Students CThorny Questions about Homework DA Faulty Approach to Homework Text 2 Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the colour, yet it is pervasive in our young girls lives. It is not that pink intrinsically bad, but it is a tiny slice of the rainbow and, though it

23、may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fused girls identity 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

24、lives and interests. Girls attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded 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 bab

25、ies wore white as a practical matter, since the only way of getting clothes clean was to boil them. Whats 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 r

26、ed, which was associated with strength. Blue, with its intimations of the Virgin Mary, constancy and faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the 实用文档 mid-1980s, when amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant childrens marketing strategy, that pink fully came into its own, wh

27、en it began to seem innately attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years. I had not realised how profoundly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, including our core beliefs about their psychological development. T

28、ake the toddler. I assumed that phase was something experts developed after years of research into childrens behaviour: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Cook, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s. Trade publicatio

29、ns counseled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a hird stepping stone between infant wear and older kids clothes. It was only after oddler became common shoppers term that it evolved into a broadly accepted developmental stage. Splitting kids, or adults, into ever

30、-tinier categories has proved a sure-fire way to boost profits. And one of the easiest ways to segment 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 rep

31、resentation of girlhood B should not be associated with girls innocence C cannot explain girls lack of imagination D cannot influence girls lives and interests 27. According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours? A Colors are encoded in girls DNA B Blue used to be regarded as the color for girls