Directions:

Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark [A], [B], [C] or [D].

     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  in World War Ⅱ and the people they liberated, the G. I. was the  man grown into hero, the poor farm kid torn away from his home, the guy who  all the burdens of battle, who slept in cold foxholes, who went without the  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,  an average guy up  the best trained, best equipped, fiercest, most brutal enemies seen in centuries.
     His name isn't much. G. I. is just a military abbreviation  Government Issue, and it was on all of the articles  to soldiers. And Joe? A common name for a guy who never  it to the top. Joe Blow, Joe Palooka. Joe Magrac… a working class name. The United States has  had a president or vice-president or secretary of state Joe. 

     G. I. Joe had acareer fighting German, Japanese, and Korean troops. He appears as a character, or a  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  portrayed themselves in the film. Pyle was famous for covering the  side of the war, writing about the dirt-snow-and-mud soldiers not how many miles were  or what towns were captured or liberated. His reports  the “Willie” cartoons of famed Stars and Stripes artist Bill Maulden. Both men  the dirt and exhaustion of war, the  of civilization that the soldiers shared with each other and the civilians: coffee, tobacco, whiskey, shelter, sleep.  Egypt, France, and a dozen more countries, G. I. Joe was any American soldier,  the most important person in their lives.