2021江西成人高考专升本英语练习题

　　Japan bombed Pearl Harbor in 1941.The United States was mad at the Japanese so they made many Japanese-Americans leave their homes.They were put in camps with barbed wire around the outside of the camps.

　　Many Japanese-American young men were called into the army.Some of them joined the US Military Intelligence Service or MIS.The MIS was a secret group that fought the Japanese soldiers.This secret group translated important maps and papers.They questioned Japanese prisoners.Another task they did was to translate diaries written in Japanese.

　　Sometimes Japanese soldiers hid in caves to hide from the Americans.The MIS would try to get the scared soldiers to leave the caves.This was known as 'cave flushing.' Some of the soldiers would give up and leave the caves.

　　Other Japanese would jump to their deaths.

　　The MIS never got awards for their efforts until the year 2000.Then they were rewarded for their brave acts in World War II.It took almost sixty years for them to be honored.

　　Gayle Yamada has made a film about the brave Japanese-American MIS.The film is called 'Uncommon Courage' and is a true story.Hopefully, Yamada's film and the movie, 'Pearl Harbor,' will not cause people to hate Japanese-Americans or any other race.

　　1The letters MIS stood for ________

　　A.Missing Infantry Soldiers

　　B.Military Intelligence Service

　　C.Military Intelligence Soldiers

　　D.Military Infamy Service

　　2The MIS finally received recognition __.

　　A.during President Kennedy's term

　　B.fifty years later

　　C.ten years ago

　　D.last year from President Clinton

　　3Gayle Yamada's new film is entitled __.

　　A.Pearl Harbor

　　B.The Winds of War

　　C.Uncommon Courage

　　D.The Greatest Generation

　　4Writer hopes that a new movie won't __.

　　A.make people love war

　　B.cause anger toward Americans

　　C.be a popular film

　　D.plant seeds of racism