2012考研英语二真题及答案
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2012 考研英语二真题及答案
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 SHEET1.(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 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 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 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. 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 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 Reading 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 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 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.
21. It is implied in paragraph 1 that nowadays homework_____.
[A] is receiving more criticism
[B]is no longer an educational ritual
[C]is not required for advanced courses
[D]is gaining more preferences
22. L.A.Unified has made the rule about homework mainly because poor
students_____.
[A]tend to have moderate expectations for their education
[B]have asked for a different educational standard
[C]may have problems finishing their homework
[D]have voiced their complaints about homework
23. According to Paragraph 3,one problem with the policy is that it may____.
[A]discourage students from doing homework
[B]result in students' indifference to their report cards
[C]undermine the authority of state tests
[D]restrict teachers' power in education
24. As mentioned in Paragraph 4, a key question unanswered about homework is
whether______. [A] it should be eliminated
[B]it counts much in schooling
[C]it places extra burdens on teachers
[D]it is important for grades
25. A suitable title for this text could be______.
[A]Wrong Interpretation of an Educational Policy
[B]A Welcomed Policy for Poor Students
[C]Thorny Questions about Homework
[D]A Faulty Approach to Homework
Text2
Pretty in pink: adult women do not 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 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 according 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’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
faithfulness, symbolised femininity. It was not until the mid-1980s, when
amplifying age and sex differences became a dominant children’s 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
first 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 children’s 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” 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 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______.
[A]should not be the sole representation 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]Colours are encoded in girls' DNA.
[B]Blue used to be regarded as the colour for girls.
[C]Pink used to be a neutral colour in symbolising genders.
[D]White is prefered by babies.
28. The author suggests that our perception of children's psychological
development was much influenced by_____.
[A]the marketing of products for children
[B]the observation of children's nature
[C]researches into children's behavior
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