全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语2试题及答案.docx

1、全国硕士研究生入学统一考试英语2试题及答案Section Use of EnglishDirections: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 GI.Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but t

2、hats 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 battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the 4 of food and shelter, who stu

3、ck 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 isnt much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 7 .Government Issue, and it was o

4、n 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 career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean

5、 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 Emie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Pyle 13 portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the 14 side of the war, writing about the

6、 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 ci

7、vilians: 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 betrayed2.A actual B common C special D normal3.A bore B cased C removed D loaded4.A nec

8、essities 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 never C either D neither11.A disguised B distur

9、bed 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 duplicated D contradicted17.A neglected B avoided C e

10、mphasized 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 Reading ComprehensionText 1Homework has never been terribly popular with students and even many parents, but in recent years i

11、t 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

12、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 students c

13、annot 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 homew

14、ork 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 on state tes

15、ts 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

16、 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 n

17、othing 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

18、for L.A. Unified to do homework right。21.It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_。A is receiving more criticismBis no longer an educational ritualCis not required for advanced coursesDis gaining more preferences22.L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor students_

19、。Atend to have moderate expectations for their educationBhave asked for a different educational standardCmay have problems finishing their homeworkDhave voiced their complaints about homework23.According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may_。Adiscourage students from doing homew

20、orkBresult in students indifference to their report cardsCundermine 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 be eliminatedBit counts much in schoolingCit places extra burdens on

21、 teachersDit is important for grades25.A suitable title for this text could be_。AWrong Interpretation of an Educational PolicyBA Welcomed Policy for Poor StudentsCThorny Questions about HomeworkDA Faulty Approach to HomeworkText 2Pretty in pink: adult women do not remember being so obsessed with the

22、 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 may celebrate girlhood in one way, it also repeatedly and firmly fused girls identity to appearance. Then it presents that connection, even among two-yea

23、r-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。Girls attraction to pink may seem unavoidable, somehow encoded in their DNA, but according to Jo Paoletti, an associate professor of

24、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 clean was to boil them. Whats more, both boys and girls wore what were thought

25、 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 faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until

26、 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 innately attractive to girls, part of what defined them as female, at least for the first few critical years。I had not realised how profoun

27、dly marketing trends dictated our perception of what is natural to kids, 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 behaviour: wrong. Turns out, according to Daniel Co

28、ok, a historian of childhood consumerism, it was popularised as a marketing gimmick by clothing manufacturers in the 1930s。Trade publications counseled department stores that, in order to increase sales, they should create a third stepping stone between infant wear and older kids clothes. It was onl

29、y after toddler became 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 a market is to magnify gender differences or invent them

30、 where they did not previously exist。26. By saying it is . The rainbow(line 3, Para 1)， the author means pink _。A should not be the sole representation of girlhoodB should not be associated with girls innocenceC cannot explain girls lack of imaginationD cannot influence girls lives and interests27.

31、According to Paragraph 2, which of the following is true of colours?A Colors are encoded in girls DNAB Blue used to be regarded as the color for girlsC Pink used to be a neutral color in symbolizing gendersD White is preferred by babies28. The author suggests that our perception of childrens psychological devotement was much influenced by _。A the marketing of products for childrenB the observation of childrens nature