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 SHEET 1. (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 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 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 vice-president 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 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. [A] performed [B]served [C]rebelled [D]betrayed