Millions of Americans and foreigners see GI. Joe as a mindless war toy, the symbol of American military adventurism, but that’s

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问题     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【C1】______in World War II and the people they liberated, the GI. was the【C2】______man grown into hero, the pool farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who【C3】______all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the【C4】______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, 【C5】______an average guy, up【C6】______the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
    His name isn’t much. GI. is just a military abbreviation【C7】______Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles【C8】______to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never 【C9】______it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Magrac ... a working class name. The United States has 【C10】______had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe.
    GI. Joe had a【C11】______career fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a【C12】______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【C13】______portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the【C14】______side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers, not how many miles were【C15】______or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports【C16】______the"Willie"cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden.
    Both men【C17】______.the dirt and exhaustion of war, the【C18】______of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep. 【C19】______Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was any American soldier, 【C20】______the most important person in their lives.
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选项 A、meaning
B、implying
C、symbolizing
D、claiming

答案C

解析 GI是Government Issue的缩略语,symbolize用于符号或标志,表示象征、代表某种含义。故选C。
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