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问题 Directions:Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D] on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points)  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 War Ⅱ and 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 battles, 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 in centuries.  His name isn’t much. G. I.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 Ernie Pyle. Some of the soldiers Poly  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 American soldiers,  20 the most important person in their lives.

选项 1.______ A.performed   B.served   C.rebelled   D.betrayed

答案B

解析从空格后面内容可知,发生的地点是World war II,并且有liberate的动作,由此判断空格中应填服役或参战之类的词,选项中只有serve有“服兵役”的意思,所以选B。rebel造反,反抗。betray背叛,出卖。
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