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Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I.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 WarⅡand the people they liberated,the G.I.was the 2 man grown into hero

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Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I.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 WarⅡand the people they liberated,the G.I.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 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 isn't much.GI.is just a military abbreviation 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 career 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 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 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.18选?

A.stages
B.illusions
C.fragments
D.advances

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3."The pen is more powerful than the sword (剑)." There have been many writers who used their pens to fight things that were wrong. Mrs. Harriet Beecher Stowe was one of them. She was born in the USA in 1811. One of her books not only made her famous but has been described as one that excited the world, and was helpful in causing a civil war and freezing the slaves. The civil war was the American Civil War of 1861, in which the Northern States fought the Southern States and finally won. This book was named "Uncle Toms Cabin". There was time when every English-speaking man, woman, and child has read this novel that did so much to stop slavery. Not many people read it today, but it is still very interesting. The book has shown us how a warm-hearted writer can arouse (唤起) peoples sympathies (同情). The writer herself had neither been to the Southern States nor been a slave. The Southern Americans were very angry at the novel, which they said did not at all represent (代表) true state of affairs,1、According to the passage ( ).A、every English-speaking person had read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"B、"Uncle Tom's Cabin" was not very interestingC、those who don''t speak English can not have read "Uncle Tom's Cabin"D、the book "Uncle Tom's Cabin" did a great deal in the American Civil War2、How old was Mrs. Stowe when her world famous book was published? ( )A、About 60 years old.B、Over 50 years old.C、In her forties.D、Around 30 years old.3、What do you learn about Mrs. Stowe from the passage? ( )A、She had been living in the north of America before the American Civil War.B、She herself encouraged the northern Americans to go to war and set the slaves free.C、She was better as writing as using a sword.D、She had once been a slave.4、Why could Mrs. Stowe's book cause a civil war in America? ( )A、She wrote so well that Americans loved her very much.B、She disclosed (揭露) the terrible wrongs that had been done to the slaves in the Southern States.C、The Southern Americans hated the book while the Northern Americans like it.D、The book had been read by many Americans.5、What can we learn from the passage? ( )A、We needn't use weapons (武器) to fight things that are wrong.B、 writer is more helpful in a war than a soldier.C、We must understand the importance of literature and art.D、No war can be won without such a book as "Uncle Tom's Cabin".

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  • 第1题:

    Which of the following can be inferred from Paragraph 3 about Bauhaus?

    A.It was founded by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.

    B.Its designing concept was affected by World War II.

    C.Most American architects used to be associated with it.

    D.It had a great influence upon American architectrue.


    正确答案:D
    解析:推理题。题干的Bauhaus定位在第三段第二句,因此答案指向第二句。第二句是个长难句,。

  • 第2题:

    when the second world war ended,britain no longer was the largest military power in western europe. ()


    参考答案:错误

  • 第3题:

    By saying "the world has been spared a t.rue water war" (Line 1, Para.4), the author means( )

    [A] the water supply in the world is more than needed

    [B] the world has saved enough water to avoid the war

    [C] the world has never suffered a war triggered by water

    [D] the world spares no effort to avoid a war caused by water


    正确答案:C

  • 第4题:

    共用题干
    New Changes in American Life
    Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families,while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children.______(46)But by the middle of this centu-ry,men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
    In the 1950s,economic and social success was the goal of the typical American.But in the 1960s a new force developed called the counterculture.______(47)The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices.Taking more interest in childcare,men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives.In fact,some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes.______(48)Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Vietnam.
    In terms of numbers,the counterculture was not a very large group of people._______(49) Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns.Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on"overtime"work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families.Some doctors,lawyers,and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
    In the 1970s,the feminist movement,or women's liberation,produced additional economic and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers.______(50)But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work,banking,dentistry,and construction work.Women were asking for equal work,and equal opportunities for promotion.
    Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women .Naturally,there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

    _______(50)
    A: In addition,many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
    B: Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching,nursing,and secretarial work.
    C: These roles were firmly fixed for most people,and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
    D: But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
    E: The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.
    F: A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

    答案:B
    解析:
    空格46后面的句子中出现了一个比较级“less firmly",这说明空格中也应有这样一个副词。从句意上看,空格后面的句子以转折词but引导,说明该句与空格中的句子成转折关系。综合考虑,本题选C。


    空格47所在段落主要是在谈论20世纪50年代的“反文化”运动给传统意义下的美国男女作用对比带来的影响。选项中只有E项出现了“the movement”这个词组,所以大致圈定选项E。从上下文来看,选项E实际上是该段中所谈到的变化的总括,故选 E。


    空格48后面的句子是在讲许多年轻人不愿服兵役参加越战,该句与段落中其他句子没有直接联系,这说明空格中的句子应该是承上启下的连接句。选项A中出现in addition连接上文,male role of soldier照应下文,这表明A项是合适的选项。


    空格所在的段落继续谈论“反文化”运动对美国社会的影响,但从上下文来看,该段已不仅仅在说对男女角色关系的影响,所以与上段之间缺少一个连接句来照应。选项 D的意思是“它影响到美国社会的很多方面”,符合题意,故选D。


    本段主要是说美国女权运动所带来的影响,妇女们大量加入劳动力大军。空格50 后面的句子以but引导,这说明两句话之间是对比关系。后者是说明妇女从事了一些以前本属于男人的工作,那么空格所在的句子也就应该是说妇女从事一些传统的工作,这就是选项B的意思,故选B。

  • 第5题:

    Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I.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 WarⅡand the people they liberated,the G.I.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 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 isn't much.GI.is just a military abbreviation 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 career 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 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 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.10选?

    A.ever
    B.never
    C.either
    D.neither

    答案:B
    解析:
    本空格所在句是The United States has 10 had a president or vice president or secretary of state Joe.根据上文中提到的“Joe只是一个普通人、是一个工人阶层普通人的名字”。空格所在句意为“一位名为Joe的总统,副总统或国务卿”。上、下文语义矛盾,所以可判断出,该句空格处需填入一个表示否定含义的词。neither也表否定,但指两者都不,不符合题意,答案选B项never“从没有,从来不是”。【命题思路】此题考查的是语义逻辑及语法搭配。【干扰排除】either…or…和neither…nor…,都仅限于两者间搭配使用,而此句提到总统、副总统和国务卿三者。此外,neither后面接nor,而非or。因此either、neither项都可排除。根据句意,该句“美国的总统,副总统或国务卿从来没有名字是Joe的”,此句表达否定的意思,所以也排除A项。G.I.Joe had a 11 career 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.【译文】G.I.Joe有着非同寻常的战争经历,他曾与德国、日本和朝鲜军队作战,在1945年的名为《美国大兵乔的故事》的电影中,他作为一个角色出现,作为一个集中了美国人性格的人物出现。该电影是根据战地记者Ernie Pyle在战争后期的报道拍摄而成的。

  • 第6题:

    Not only______the fall of the czar, but it also destroyed the provisional government.

    A.did World War I cause
    B.World War I cause
    C.was World War I cause
    D.World War I to cause

    答案:A
    解析:
    本题考察倒装,题目意为“第一次世界大战不仅造成沙皇的垮台,还摧毁了临时政府。”not only … but also 连接两个分句,并且 not only 位于句首时,第一个分句中的主语和谓语要部分倒装。动词“cause”为实意动词,使用do提问或提前,过去时用did,所以选择A选项。

    考点
    倒装

  • 第7题:

    共用题干
    New Changes in American Life
    Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men
    worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families,while women cooked the
    meals and took care of the home and the children._______(46)But by the middle of this century,men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
    In the 1950s,economic and social success was the goal of the typical American. But in the
    1960 s a new force developed called the counterculture._______(47)The counterculture presented men and women with new role choices. Taking more interest in childcare,men began to share
    child-raising tasks with their wives. In fact,some young men and women moved to communal
    homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both sexes._______(48)Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Viet-nam。
    In terms of numbers,the counterculture was not a very large group of people._______(49)
    Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns.Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on“overtime”work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families .Some doctors,lawyers,and teachers turned away from high paying situations to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
    In the 1970s,the feminist movement,or women's liberation,produced additional economic and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers._______(50)But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work,banking,dentistry,and construction work.Women were asking for equal work,and equal opportunities for promotion.
    Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women .Naturally,there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

    _______(49)
    A: In addition,many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
    B:Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching,nursing,and secretarial work.
    C: These roles were firmly fixed for most people,and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
    D: But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
    E: The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.
    F: A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

    答案:D
    解析:
    空格46后面的句子中出现了一个比较级“less firmly”,这说明空格中也应有这样一个副词。从句意上看,空格后面的句子以转折词but引导,说明该句与空格中的句子成转折关系。综合考虑,本题选C。


    空格47所在段落主要是在谈论20世纪50年代的“反文化”运动给传统意义下的美国男女作用对比带来的影响。选项中只有E项出现了“the movement”这个词组,所以大致圈定选项E。从上下文来看,选项E实际上是该段中所谈到的变化的总括,故选E。


    空格48后面的句子是在讲许多年轻人不愿服兵役参加越战,该句与段落中其他句子没有直接联系,这说明空格中的句子应该是承上启下的连接句。选项A中出现in addition连接上文,male role of soldier照应下文,这表明A项是合适的选项。


    空格所在的段落继续谈论“反文化”运动对美国社会的影响,但从上下文来看,该段已不仅仅在说对男女角色关系的影响,所以与上段之间缺少一个连接句来照应。选项 D的意思是“它影响到美国社会的很多方面”,符合题意,故选D。


    本段主要是说美国女权运动所带来的影响,妇女们大量加入劳动力大军。空格50 后面的句子以but引导,这说明两句话之间是对比关系。后者是说明妇女从事了一些以前本属于男人的工作,那么空格所在的句子也就应该是说妇女从事一些传统的工作,这就是选项B的意思,故选B。

  • 第8题:

    What was the main cause of the Second World War?()

    AThe main cause was big power struggle for control of the world.

    BIt was the worldwide economic crisis.

    CIt was the military expansion of Japan,and Germany.


    A

  • 第9题:

    American war time objectives were()

    • A、the total defeat of Axis powers
    • B、the establishment of a postwar world order under American leadership
    • C、coordination of war efforts of the Soviet Union,Britain and the United States
    • D、Both A and B

    正确答案:D

  • 第10题:

    单选题
    The American Revolution is regarded by military historians as a war Britain _____.
    A

    should never lose

    B

    can never lose

    C

    should never have lost

    D

    would never have lost


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    结合选项,可知本题要表达的意思是:美国革命被军事历史学家认为是一场英国原本绝不该输掉的战争。“过去本该做某事但事实上未做”,用should have done结构来表示。would have done表示“如果过去发生了某事,现在就该做但事实上并未做某事”。根据句意,推出最佳答案为C。

  • 第11题:

    单选题
    When did Nadia’s family move to England from Germany?    
    A

    During World War I

    B

    During World War Ⅱ

    C

    Ten years ago


    正确答案: C
    解析: 根据女士说的时间Since the 1940s, my great grandparents came here during the war,可推测她的家人是在二战期间迁居到英国的。
    【录音原文】
    M: How long has your family been in England, Nadia?
    W: Over ages. Since the 1940s, my great grandparents came here during the war. I’ve lived here all my life.
    M: Have you still got relatives in Germany?
    W: Yes, we have. We went to visit them about ten years ago. We haven’t seen them for a long time now, but we keep in touch by e-mail.

  • 第12题:

    问答题
    Passage 2The History of Women’s Suffrage  A  In the early nineteenth century, women were considered second-class citizens whose existence was limited to the interior life of the home and care of the children. Women were considered subsets of their husbands, and after marriage they did not have the right to own property, maintain their wages, or sign a contract, much less vote. It was expected that women be obedient wives, never to hold a thought or opinion independent of their husbands. It was considered improper for women to travel alone or to speak in public. With the belief that intense physical or intellectual activity would be injurious to the delicate female biology and reproductive system, women were taught to refrain from pursuing any serious education. Silently perched in their birdcages, women were considered merely objects of beauty, and were looked upon as intellectually and physically inferior to men. This belief in women’s inferiority to men was further reinforced by organized religion which preached strict and well-defined sex roles.  B The Seneca Falls Convention  The women’s suffrage movement was formally set into motion in 1848 with the first Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, New York.  The catalyst for this gathering was the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in 1840 in London and attended by an American delegation which included a number of women. In attendance were Lucretia Mort and Elizabeth Cady Stanton, who were forced to sit in the galleries as observers because they were women. This poor treatment did not rest well with these women of progressive thoughts, and it was decided that they would hold their own convention to “discuss the social, civil and religious rights of women”.  Using The Declaration of Independence as a guideline, Stanton presented her Declaration of Principles in her hometown chapel and brought to light women’s subordinate status and made recommendations for change.  Resolution 9 requesting the right to vote was perhaps the most important in that it expressed the demand for sexual equality. Subsequent to the Seneca Falls Convention, the demand for the vote became the centerpiece of the women’s rights movement.  C  Suffrage During the Civil War  During the Civil War, women’s suffrage was eclipsed by the war effort and movement for the abolition of slavery. While annual conventions were held on a regular basis, there was much discussion but little action. Activists such as slave-born Sojourner Truth, Elizabeth Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony lectured and petitioned the government for the emancipation of slaves with the belief that, once the war was over, women and slaves alike would be granted the same rights as the white men. At the end of the war, however, the government saw the suffrage of women and that of the negro as two separate issues and it was decided that the negro vote could produce the immediate political gain, particularly in the South, that the women’s vote could not.  Abraham Lincoln declared, “This hour belongs to the negro.”  D  Women Unite  With the side-stepping of women’s rights, women activists became enraged, and the American Equal Rights Association was established by Stanton and her colleagues in 1866 in effort to organize in the fight for women’s rights. In 1868, the ratification of the Fourteenth Amendment proved an affront to the women’s movement, as it defined “citizenship” and “voters” as “male”, and raised the question as to whether women were considered citizens of the United States at all. The exclusion of women was further reinforced with the ratification of the Fifteenth Amendment in 1870, which enfranchised black men. In a disagreement over these Amendments, the women’s movement split into two factions. In New York, Stanton and Anthony established the radical National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell organized the more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston. These two groups later merged in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton.  E  Winning the Vote  Susan B. Anthony was arrested for attempting to vote for Ulysses S. Grant in the 1872 presidential election. Six years later, in 1878, a Women’s Suffrage Amendment was introduced to U.S. Congress. With the formation of numerous groups, such as the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU), the National Council of Jewish Women (NCJW), the National Association of Colored Women (NACW) and, the Women’s Trade Union League, the women’s movement gained a full head of steam during the 1890’s and early 1900’s. The U.S. involvement in World War I in 1918 slowed down the suffrage campaign as women pitched in for the war effort. However, in 1919, after years of petitioning, picketing, and protest parades, the Nineteenth Amendment was passed by both houses of Congress and in 1920 it became ratified under the presidency of Woodrow Wilson.  F Amendment xix  1. The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.  2. Congress shall have power to enforce this Article by appropriate legislation. (Ratified August 26, 1920)  G  Equal Rights Amendment  Upon this victory of the vote, the NAWSA disbanded as an organization, giving birth to the League of Women Voters. The vote was not enough to secure women’s equal rights according to Alice Paul, founder of the National Woman’s Party (NWP), who moved to take women’s rights one step further by proposing the Equal Rights Amendment (E.R.A.) to Congress in 1923. This demand to eliminate discrimination on the basis of gender failed to pass.  The push for the E.R.A. continued on a state-by-state basis, until the newly formed National Organization for Women (NOW) launched a national campaign during the 1960’s.  Despite many heated debates and protests, the E.R.A., while passed by Congress in 1972, has never been ratified.  Do the following statements agree with the information given in Reading Passage 2?  In boxes 1-6 on your answer sheet, write  TRUE       if the statement agrees with the information  FALSE       if the statement contradicts the information  NOT GIVEN     if there is no information on this  1. In the early nineteenth century it was generally believed that men and women performed different roles in society.  2. The World Anti-Slavery Convention preceded the first Women’s Right Convention.  3. During the American Civil War, the Women’s suffrage movement flourished.  4. Men were not allowed to join the National Woman Suffrage Association.  5. The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was less radical than the American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA).  6. Abraham Lincoln was not sympathetic to the women’s movement.

    正确答案: 1. TRUE
    (根据题干关键词early nineteenth century, men and women, different roles可定位到原文A第一段的首句“In the early nineteenth century, women were considered second-class citizens whose existence was limited to the interior life of the home and care of the children”,由此可知在19世纪早期女性被视为二等公民,只能在家中做家务或照顾孩子,所以题干表述是正确的。因而答案为TRUE。)
    2. TRUE
    (根据题干关键词The World Ant-Slavery Convention (ASC)和first Women’s Right Convention (WRC)可定位到B第二段的第一句“The catalyst for this gathering was the World Anti-Slavery Convention held in 1840 in London and attended by an American delegation which included a number of women”,其中this gathering指的就是女权运动,因此可知题干表述是完全正确的。因而答案为TRUE。)
    3. FALSE
    (根据题干关键词American Civil War和flourished可定位到原文C部分首句“During the Civil War, women’s suffrage was eclipsed by the war effort and movement for the abolition of slavery”,文中eclipsed意思是“遮暗,使失色”,因此可知在内战期间女性选举权运动受到了影响,因此题干表述是不符合原文的。因而答案是FALSE。)
    4. NOT GIVEN
    (根据题干关键词National Woman Suffrage Association可定位到原文D部分尾句“Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell organized the more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston. These two groups later merged in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton”,该句中并未提到男人是否可以加入全国妇女选举协会这个组织,因而答案是NOT GIVEN。)
    5. FALSE
    (根据题干关键词National Woman Suffrage Association(NWSA), less radical和American Woman Suffrage Association(AWSA)可定位到D部分倒数第一、二句“Lucy Stone, Julia Ward Howe, and Henry Blackwell organized the more conservative American Woman Suffrage Association (AWSA) in Boston. These two groups later merged in 1890 to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) under the leadership of Elizabeth Cady Stanton”,通过这句话可知AWSA更保守一些,因此,可知答案应该是FALSE。)
    6. NOT GIVEN
    (根据题干关键词Abraham Lincoln和not sympathetic可定位到原文C段尾句“Abraham Lincoln declared, ‘This hour belongs to the negro’”,这句话只是林肯对黑人说的一句话,并不是它对于女权运动的态度,因此,答案是NOT GIVEN。)
    解析: 暂无解析

  • 第13题:

    After the outbreak of the First World War, Australia followed Britain's lead and declared war on ________.

    A.Japan

    B.Turkey

    C.Italy

    D.Germany


    正确答案:D

  • 第14题:

    根据下面材料,回答第 1~20 题:

    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 WarⅡand 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 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 isn't much. GI. is just a military abbreviation 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 career 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 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 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.

    第 1 题 [A] performed

    [B] served

    [C] rebelled

    [D] betrayed


    正确答案:B

  • 第15题:

    The Neutrality of American in the Early World War II
    The establishment of the Third Reich influenced events in American history by starting a chain of events which
    culminated in war between Germany and the United States.The compete destruction of democracy,the persecution of Jews,
    the war on religion,the cruelty and barbarism of the Nazis,and especially the plans of Germany and her allies,Italy and
    Japan,for world conquest caused great indignation in this country and brought on fear of another world war.
    While speaking out against Hitler's atrocities,the American people generally favored is out against policies and
    neutrality.
    The Neutrality Acts of 1935 and 1936 prohibited trade with any belligerents or loans to them.In 1937 the President
    was empowered to declare an arms embargo in wars between nations at his discretion.
    American opinion began to change somewhat after President Roosevelt's“quarantine the aggressor”speech at Chicago
    (1937)in which he severely criticized Hitler's policies.Germany's seizure of Austria and the Munich Pact for the partition of
    Czechoslovakia(1938)also aroused the American people.
    The conquest of Czechoslovakia in March,1939 was another rude awakening to the menace of the Third Reich.In
    August,1939 came the shock of the Nazi-soviet Pact and in September the attack on Poland and the outbreak of European
    war.
    The United States attempted to maintain neutrality in spite of sympathy for the democracies arrayed against the Third
    Reich.The Neutrality Act of 1939 repealed the arms embargo and permitted“cash and carry”exports of arms to belligerent
    nations.A strong national defense program was begun.
    A draft act was passed(1940)to strengthen the military services.A Lend-lease Act(1941)authorized the President to
    sell,exchange,or lend materials to any country deemed necessary by him for the defense of the United States.Help was
    given to Britain by exchanging certain overage destroyers for the right to establish American bases in British territory in the
    Western Hemisphere.In August,1940 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met and issued the Atlantic Charter
    which proclaimed the kind of a world which should be established after the war.
    In December,1941,Japan launched the unprovoked attack on the United States at Pearl Harbor.Immediately thereafter,Germany declared war on the United States.

    We?entered?the?war?against?Germany_______.

    A.becauseGermanydeclaredwar.
    B.becauseJapanwasanallyofGermany.
    C.afterGermanyhadsignedtheNazi-sovietPact.
    D.after peaceful efforts had failed.

    答案:A
    解析:
    本题考查细节。A选项,因为德国宣战。这在第一段已有说明。尽管希特勒坏事做尽,美国还是倾向于中立政策。第二段罗斯福在芝加哥的演讲,态度稍有改变。严厉批评希特勒的政策,但仍然以中立为主。1941年日本袭击珍珠港,不久德国宣战,美国才不得不参战。综上,A选项正确。

    故正确选项为A。

  • 第16题:

    共用题干
    第二篇

    The American Industry

    A history of long and effortless success can be a dreadful handicap,but if properly handled,it may become a driving force.When the United States entered just such a glowing period after the end of the Second World War,it had a market eight times larger than any competitor,giving its industries unparalleled economies of scale.Its scientists were the world's best,its workers the most skilled.America and Americans were prosperous beyond the dreams of the Europeans and Asians whose economies the war had destroyed.
    It was inevitable that this primacy should have narrowed as other countries grew richer. Just as inevitably,the retreat from predominance proved painful.By the mid-1980s Americans had found themselves at a loss over their fading industrial competitiveness.Some huge American industries, such as consumer electronics,had shrunk or vanished in the face of foreign competition.By 1987 there was only one American television maker left,Zenith.(Now there is none:Zenith was bought by South Korea's LG Electronics in July.)Foreign-made cars and textiles were sweeping into the domestic market. America's machine-tool industry was on the ropes.For a while it looked as though the making of semiconductors,which America had which sat at the heart of the new computer age, was going to be the next casualty.
    All of this caused a crisis of confidence.Americans stopped taking prosperity for granted.They began to believe that their way of doing business was failing,and that their incomes would therefore shortly begin to fall as well. The mid-1980s brought one inquiry after another into the causes of America's industrial decline.Their sometimes sensational findings were filled with warnings about the growing competition from overseas.
    How things have changed!In 1995 the United States can look back on five years of solid growth while Japan has been struggling. Few Americans attribute this solely to such obvious causes as a devalued dollar or the turning of the business cycle.Self-doubt has yielded to blind pride."American industry has changed its structure,has gone on a diet,has learnt to be more quick-witted,"according to Richard Cavanagh,executive dean of Harvard's Kennedy School of Government,"It makes me proud to be an American just to see how our businesses are improving their productivity,"says Stephen Moore of the Cato Institute,a think-tank in Washington,DC.And William Sahlman of the Harvard Business School believes that people will look back on this period as"a golden age of business management in the United States."

    The U.S.achieved its predominance after World War Ⅱ because______.
    A:it had made painstaking efforts towards this goal
    B:its domestic market was eight times larger than before
    C:the war had destroyed the economies of most potential competitors
    D:the unparalleled size of its workforce had given an impetus to its economy

    答案:C
    解析:
    第一段指出,“第二次世界大战后,美国就进入了这样的一个辉煌的历史时期。它拥有比任何竞争者大八倍的市场,这使其工业经济规模前所未有。它的科学家是世上最优秀的,它的工人是技术最好的。美国及其民众的富庶是那些经济遭到战争破坏的欧洲人和亚洲人连做梦也不敢想的”。因此利用排除法,确定答案是C。
    A选项错误,因为第二段中说“到1987年,美国只剩下Zenith这一家电视生产商(现在这一家也没有了:Zenith于7月被韩国LG电子公司收购)。”说明它连国内市场也保不住了。B选项错误,文中第二段最后一句提到,“有一段时间,下一个栖牲品看起来似乎该轮到美国的半导体制造业了……”,可是事实上没有。C选项中谈到的机床业已经自取灭亡的说法错误,因为文中提到机床制造业“岌岌可危”(on the ropes),但是还没有灭亡。D选项是合适的,因为第二段第六句提到,“进口车和纺织品横扫国内市场”。
    第三段提到,“所有这一切导致了信心危机。美国人不再视繁荣为理所当然之事。他们开始怀疑自己的商业经营方式出了问题,也怀疑不久他们的收入就会下降。20 世纪80年代中期人们对美国工业衰退的原因作了一次又一次的调查。那些有时耸人听闻的结果充斥着海外竞争加剧的预警”。第四段提到了90年代的经济复苏。其中的含义是:在竞争的压力下,美国人在80年代调整产业结构,美国的工业已经改变了结构,消除了滞胀,变得更机智,因此带来了90年代的经济复苏。因此,可以得出推论:激烈的竞争会导致经济的发展。另外三个选项都不合适。
    在第四段,作者指出,"1995年,美国可以对过去五年的稳步发展作一回顾,而日本还在奋力挣扎。很少有美国人将这一巨变单纯归因于美元贬值或商业周期循环这些显而易见的原因。如今,对自身的怀疑已被盲目乐观所取代”。这里作者实际上对当前美国人的盲目乐观情绪进行了批评,认为20世纪90年代的增长是由美元贬值或经济周期的转机等因素造成的。选项B是“Richard Cavanagh”的看法。选项C是“Stephen Moore”的看法。选项D文中没有提及。
    本题考查的是细节部分理解能力。原文是指美国工业在20世界90年代通过消除机构臃肿得到发展。选项A明显不正确。选项B是最接近原文意思的,指“美国工厂裁减多余的员工,精简机构”。选项C指“美国工业衰减”,不符合题意。选项D只是概括地说“美国工业效率提高”,并没有具体指出原因。因此本题选B。

  • 第17题:

    Millions of Americans and foreigners see G.I.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 WarⅡand the people they liberated,the G.I.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 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 isn't much.GI.is just a military abbreviation 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 career 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 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 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选?

    A.performed
    B.served
    C.rebelled
    D.betrayed

    答案:B
    解析:
    词义辨析【直击答案】本空格所在句是To the men and women who 1 in World War II and the people they liberated。空格中需要填入一个动词,该动词所在的定语从句修饰限定其先行词the men and women,由定语从句中the people they liberated…意为“被他们解放的人”,再结合前面World War II,可判断出答案应为B项served。serve in the war意为“服兵役,当兵”。【命题思路】本题根据上下文语义信息做出判断,同时也考查对相近含义词汇的辨析。【干扰排除】纵观四个选项都是动词,所以就要分析词义,如果不认识这几个词,此题的难度就会变大。A项perform作及物动词时多为“履行,完成”,后面需要带宾语,其次带入句中意为“二战中执行的男男女女”,执行什么不得知,可以排除。C项rebel带入句中意为“二战中反抗的男男女女”,意思和下文无法衔接。D项betray带入句中意为“二战中背叛的男男女女”,也排除。

  • 第18题:

    共用题干
    New Changes in American Life
    Once it was possible to define male and female roles easily by the division of labor. Men worked outside the home and earned the income to support their families,while women cooked the meals and took care of the home and the children.______(46)But by the middle of this centu- ry,men's and women's roles were becoming less firmly fixed.
    In the 1950s,economic and social success was the goal of the typical American.But in the l960s a new force developed called the counterculture.______(47)The counterculture presen- ted men and women with new role choices.Taking more interest in childcare,men began to share child-raising tasks with their wives.In fact,some young men and women moved to communal homes or farms where the economic and childcare responsibilities were shared equally by both se- xes.______(48)Some young men refused to be drafted as soldiers to fight in the war in Viet-nam。
    In terms of numbers,the counterculture was not a very large group of people.______(49) Working men of all classes began to change their economic and social patterns.Industrial workers and business executives alike cut down on“overtime”work so that they could spend more leisure time with their families.Some doctors,lawyers,and teachers turned away from high paying situa-tions to practice their professions in poorer neighborhoods.
    In the 1970s,the feminist movement,or women's liberation,produced additional economic and social changes.Women of all ages and at all levels of society were entering the work force in greater numbers.______(50)But some women began to enter traditionally male occupations: police work,banking,dentistry,and construction work.Women were asking for equal work,and equal opportunities for promotion.
    Today the experts generally agree that important changes are taking place in the roles of men and women.Naturally,there are difficulties in adjusting to these transformations.

    ______(46)
    A: In addition,many Americans did not value the traditional male role of soldier.
    B: Most of them still took traditional women's jobs as public school teaching,nursing,and secretarial work.
    C: These roles were firmly fixed for most people,and there was not much opportunity for women to exchange their roles.
    D: But its influence spread to many parts of American society.
    E: The people involved in this movement did not value the middle-class American goals.
    F: A great many jobs that used to belong to men are now taken by women.

    答案:C
    解析:
    空格46后面的句子中出现了一个比较级“less firmly”,这说明空格中也应有这样一个副词。从句意上看,空格后面的句子以转折词but引导,说明该句与空格中的句子成转折关系。综合考虑,本题选C。
    空格47所在段落主要是在谈论20世纪50年代的“反文化”运动给传统意义下的美国男女作用时比带来的影响。选项中只有E项出现了“the movement”这个词组,所以大致圈定选项E。从上下文来看,选项E实际上是该段中所谈到的变化的总括,故选E。
    空格48后面的句子是在讲许多年轻人不愿服兵役参加越战,该句与段落中其他句子没有直接联系,这说明空格中的句子应该是承上启下的连接句。选项A中出现“in addition”连接上文,“male role of soldier”照应下文,这表明A项是合适的选项。
    空格所在的段落继续谈论“反文化”运动对美国社会的影响,但从上下文来看,该段已不仅仅在说对男女角色关系的影响,所以与上段之间缺少一个连接句来照应。选项 D的意思是“它影响到美国社会的很多方面”,符合题意,故选D。
    本段主要是说美国女权运动所带来的影响,妇女们大量加入劳动力大军。空格50 后面的句子以but引导,这说明两句话之间是对比关系。后者是说明妇女从事了一些以前本属于男人的工作,那么空格所在的句子也就应该是说妇女从事一些传统的工作,这就是选项B的意思,故选B。

  • 第19题:

    __________ was a protest movement by American youth that arose in the late 1960s.

    A.Free Speech Movement
    B.The Women's Movement
    C.Anti-War Movement
    D.Counter Culture Movement

    答案:D
    解析:
    考查英美概况知识。Free Speech Movement“言论自由运动”是1964年的加州大学伯克利分校的伯克利言论自由运动:The Women’s Movement“女权运动”是20世纪六七十年代解放女性思想,帮助她们获得自由、取得普遍平等的社会地位的美国女权运动;Anti—War Movement“反战运动”是60年代美国国民因对和平的渴求而发起的一场运动:Counter Culture Movement“反正统文化运动”是美国青年们以自己独特的方式来反对传统文化的价值观念和道德观念存在着某种传承的运动。故选D。

  • 第20题:

    American war time objectives were()

    Athe total defeat of Axis powers

    Bthe establishment of a postwar world order under American leadership

    Ccoordination of war efforts of the Soviet Union,Britain and the United States

    DBoth A and B


    D

  • 第21题:

    What was the main cause of the Second World War?()

    • A、The main cause was big power struggle for control of the world.
    • B、It was the worldwide economic crisis.
    • C、It was the military expansion of Japan,and Germany.

    正确答案:A

  • 第22题:

    单选题
    Millions of American soldiers fought _____ in the World War II.
    A

    externally

    B

    aboard

    C

    broadly

    D

    overseas


    正确答案: A
    解析:
    overseas在海外。externally外表上。aboard在船上。broadly宽阔地。

  • 第23题:

    单选题
    What was the main cause of the Second World War?()
    A

    The main cause was big power struggle for control of the world.

    B

    It was the worldwide economic crisis.

    C

    It was the military expansion of Japan,and Germany.


    正确答案: B
    解析: 暂无解析

  • 第24题:

    单选题
    American war time objectives were()
    A

    the total defeat of Axis powers

    B

    the establishment of a postwar world order under American leadership

    C

    coordination of war efforts of the Soviet Union,Britain and the United States

    D

    Both A and B


    正确答案: D
    解析: 暂无解析