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2011 年 3 月 PETS3 笔试真题

PUBLIC ENGLISH TEST SYSTEM(PETS) LEVEL 3

SECTION II Use of English ( 15 minutes)

Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and

mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text

What might the house of the future be like? Grace can tell. More formally known as the Microsoft

Home, her high-tech devices, along with -26- in design and construction, will change the -27- we

think about our homes.

You enter the house, and Grace's -28- , coming from hidden speakers, passes on your messages. In

the kitchen, you set a bag of flour on the intelligently -29- stone counter. Grace sees what you're -30- ,

and projects a list of flour-based food on the counter. -31- you choose one, Grace repeats instructions

for cooking. She -32- knows what's in the cupboard.

The day when your house will be like a family member is not that far off. This -33- of seamless

computing, in which technology is everywhere yet nowhere ( -34- when we want it), is emphasized in

most future-home thinking.

Microsoft, -35- , isn't the only one exploring -36- technology can make our homes more -37- and

comfortable. At the Georgia Institute of Technology, scientists are -38- systems that will allow older

people to continue living -39- . So Grandma's home can be intelligently wired to -40- her patterns of

wake, sleep and movement; family members would be -41- of any changes via computer.

Does spying on Grandma sound -42- ? Director Beth Mynatt says "A good bit of our -43- has

been working on how to convey information without -44- privacy. We also don't want to create -45-

anxiety. Maybe she just took a quiet day to read, and the system would have to recognize that. "

26. [A] promotions [B] applications [C] practices [D] advances

【答案】D

【解析】Advance, advance in 进步；改进. Promotion, n. 提升，晋升；推销，促销。Application，

n. 应用；申请；应用程序；敷用。Practice，n. 实践；练习；惯例。更正式的命名为微软的家,

她的高科技设备,和先进的设计与施工,将改变我们设想家园的思维方式。

27. [A] way [B] manner [C] style [D] scope

【答案】A.

【解析】The way we think about our homes, 设想我们家园的思维方式。

28. [A] image [B] figure [C] voice [D] sound

【答案】C

【解析】当你走进屋子,Grace 的声音从隐藏的扬声器里传出来传达信息给你。Voice, n. 声音；

嗓音，一般指人的声音，说话、唱歌。

29. [A] disposed [B] shaped [C] engineered [D] conditioned

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【答案】C

【解析】 dispose 处理处置；shape 使成为…形状，塑造；engineer 设计；condition 调节。

此处意为智能设计，故选 C。

30. [A] saying [B] feeling [C] searching [D] doing

【答案】D

【解析】Grace 知道你正在做什么，并且将各种面点食品放在柜台上，来供你选择。

31. [A] Before [B] Once [C] Since [D] Unless

【答案】B

【解析】Before, conj. 在…以前；在…之前. Once, conj. 一旦. Since, conj. 因为；由于；

既然；自…以来；自…以后. Unless, conj. 除非，如果不.

32. [A] even [B] thus [C]yet [D] only

【答案】A

【解析】Grace 甚至知道壁橱里放的是什么东西。Even, 甚至。Thus，adv. 因此；从而。Yet，

adv. 还；但是；已经 conj. 但是；然而。 Only，adv. 只，仅仅。

33. [A] hope [B] passion [C] faith [D] notion

【答案】D

【解析】notion，想法，意见。Hope，希望。 Passion，热情。 Faith， n. 信仰；信念；信

任；应该选择 D。

34. [A] perhaps [B] except [C] provided [D] especially

【答案】D

【解析】perhaps，adv.也许。Except，prep. 除…之外。 Provided conj. 假如；倘若。Especially，

adv. 特别；尤其；格外。选择 D。

35. [A] therefore [B] likewise [C] however [D] moreover

【答案】C

【解析】however, 然而；可是。Therefore，adv. 因此；所以。Likewise，adv. 同样地；也。

Moreover, adv. 而且；此外。

36. [A] how [B] whether [C] what [D] why

【答案】A

【解析】然而并不是只有微软来探索技术如何可以让我们的家园更高效、更舒适。

37. [A] fashionable [B] complicated [C] efficient [D] attractive

【答案】C

【解析】efficient，高效率的。fashionable ，时尚的。Complicated，复杂的。Efficient，高效






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率的。Attractive，adj. 吸引人的；有魅力的。根据句意，选择 C。

38. [A] decorating [B I designing [C] delivering [D] debating

【答案】 B

【解析】design， vt. 设计；计划；构思。Deliver，vt. 交付；发表；递送。Debate, vt. 辩论，

争论，讨论。根据句意，选择 B。

39. [A] independently [B] enthusiastically [C] colorfully [D] satisfactorily

【答案】A

【解析】科学家们正在设计系统,来让年长的人来继续独立的生活。 Independently，独立地。

Enthusiastically，adv. 热心地；满腔热情地。Colorfully，adv. 多彩地；绚烂地。 Satisfactorily，

adv. 令人满意地。

40. [A] receive [B] recognize [C] represent [D] review'

【答案】B

【解析】所以奶奶的家将会智能的连线来识别奶奶的作息的模式，这位家庭成员将会通过电脑

接到有关于奶奶的作息的变化的通知。Recognize 识别

41. [A] warned [B] relieved [C] advised [D] informed

【答案】D

【解析】warn sb of sth 警告某人某事。relieve sb of sth 解释某人的负担。Be Informed of (得

知)。

42. [A] interesting [B] boring ) [C] disturbing [D] appealing

【答案】C

【解析】interesting，adj. 有趣的；引起兴趣的。 boring，adj. 无聊的；令人厌烦的。

Disturbing，adj. 令人不安的；烦扰的。 appealing，adj. 吸引人的；动人的；引起兴趣的。

监视奶奶的行为似乎听起来让人不安。

43. [A] analysis [B] research [C] concern [D] focus

【答案】B.

【解析】 research, n. 研究。我们的研究的一部分是致力于传递信息同时又不牺牲别人的隐

私.

44. [A] sacrificing [B] affecting [C] preventing [D] losing

【答案】A

【解析】sacrifice, 牺牲。To sacrifice privacy, 牺牲隐私。

45. [A] unusual [B] unfortunate [C] uncertain [D] unnecessary

【答案】D

http://dict.youdao.com/w/warn_sb_of_sth/

http://dict.youdao.com/w/relieve_sb_of_sth/






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【解析】我们不想让人们增加不必要的焦虑。Unnecessary，adj. 不必要的；多余的，无用的。

SECTION

III

Reading Comprehension ( 40 minutes)

Part A

Directions: Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on each text by choosing A, B , C or

D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Text 1

Whenever Catherine Brown, a 37-year-old journalist, and her friends, professionals in their 30s

and early 40s, meet at a London cafe, their favorite topic of conversation is relationships: men's

reluctance to commit, women's independence, and when to have children-or, increasingly, whether to

have them at all. "With the years passing my chances of having a child go down, but I won't marry

anyone just to have a child," says Brown. To people like Brown, babies are great--if the timing is right.

But they're certainly not essential.

In much of the world, having kids is no longer a given. "Never before has childlessness been an

understandable decision for women and men in so many societies," says Frank Hakim at the London

School of Economics. Young people are extending their child-free adulthood by postponing children

until they are well into their 30s, or even 40s and beyond.

A growing share are ending up with no children at all. Lifetime childlessness in western Germany

has hit 30 percent among university-educated women, and is rapidly rising among lower-class men. In

Britain, the number of women remaining childless has doubled in 20 years.

The latest trend of childlessness does not follow historic patterns. For centuries it was not unusual

for a quarter of European women to remain childless. But in the past, childlessness was usually the

product of poverty or disaster, of missing men in times of war. Today the decision to have--or not

have--a child is the result of a complex combination of factors, including relationships, career

opportunities, lifestyle and economics.

In some cases childlessness among women can be seen as a quiet form of protest. In Japan,

support for working mothers hardly exists. Child care is expensive, men don't help out, and some

companies strongly discourage mothers from returning to work. "In Japan, it's career or child," says

writer Kaori Haishi. It's not just women who are deciding against children; according to a re-cent

study, Japanese men are even less inclined to marry or want a child. Their motivations, though, may

have more to do with economic factors.

46. Catherine Brown and her friends feel that having children is not __

[A] totally Wise

[B] a huge problem

[C] a rational choice

[D] absolutely necessary

【答案】D






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【解析】With the years passing my chances of having a child go down, but I won't marry anyone

just to have a child," says Brown. To people like Brown, babies are great--if the timing is right.

But they're certainly not essential. 从这句话中，可以看出，对于像 Brown 这样的人来说，如果

在合适的时间有孩子是很好的。但是并不是很必要的。Essential，adj. 必要的；选择 D。

47. It can be inferred that, for many women, having babies nowadays is __

[A]a hard commitment

[B] helpful to their career

[C] essential for happiness

[D] an understandable decision

【答案】A

【解析】Today the decision to have--or not have--a child is the result of a complex combination

of factors, including relationships, career opportunities, lifestyle and economics. 从这句话中，可

以看出做出要孩子还是不要孩子的决定是综合于很多因素的，诸如，事业，生活方式以及经济

状况等。从而可以推断出现在的女性不要孩子是个艰难的决定。故选 A。

48. In the old days, many women remained childless __

[A]as a quiet form of protest

[B] because of lack of support

[C] because of unfortunate circumstances

[D] because they lacked social responsibility

【答案】C

【解析】But in the past, childlessness was usually the product of poverty or disaster, of missing

men in times of war. 在古代，许多妇女不要孩子是基于一些不利的因素，诸如贫穷，灾难或者

在战争期间失去丈夫。

49. We learn that childlessness at present __

[A] affects Europe more than it does Asia

[B] produces more benefits than in the past

[C] more a woman's decision than a man's

[D] is more complex in its’ cause than that in the past

【答案】D

【解析】现在的人不要孩子的原因要比过去的因素多,选 D。

50. According to the text, when a Japanese man decides not to have children, he probably feels unable

to

[A] help with housework

[B] afford to have a child






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[C] be a responsible father

[D] balance work and family

【答案】B

【解析】Japanese men are even less inclined to marry or want a child. Their motivations, though,

may have more to do with economic factors. 日本男人更多的倾向于不结婚或不要孩子。他们的

动机可能更多的和经济因素的有关，推断日本男人不要孩子，可能是养不起孩子，选择 B。

Text 2

Faced with a mission-critical decision, who would you turn to for advice? Someone you had great

confidence in, surely. But several lines of research show that our instincts about where to turn to for

counsel are often not completely correct.

My research looks at prejudices that affect how people use advice, including why they often

blindly follow recommendations from people who--as far as they know--are as knowledgeable as they

are. In studies I conducted with Don Moore of Carnegie Mellon University, for example, I found that

people tend to overvalue advice when the problem they're addressing is hard and to undervalue it

when the problem is easy.

In our experiments, subjects were asked to guess the weight of people in various pictures, some of

which were in focus and some of which were unclear. For each picture, subjects guessed twice: the

first time without advice and the second time with input from another participant. When the pictures

were in focus, we found, subjects tended to discount the advice; apparently, they were confident in

their ability to guess correctly. When the pictures were unclear, subjects leaned heavily on the advice

of others and seemed less secure about their initial opinion. Because they misjudged the value of the

advice they received--consistently overvaluing or undervaluing it depending on the difficulty of the

problem--our subjects did not make the best guesses overall. They would have done better if they'd

considered the advice equally, and to a moderate degree, on both hard and easy tasks.

Another advice-related prejudice I've found compels people to overvalue advice that they pay for:

In one study I conducted, subjects answered different sets of questions about American history. Before

answering some of the questions, they could get advice on the correct answer from another subject

whom they knew was no more expert than they were. In one version of the experiment, people could

get advice for free, while in another version, they paid for it. When they paid for advice, people tended

to have firm belief ill it, | suspect, by a combination of sunk-cost prejudice and the nearly instinctual

belief that cost and quality are linked.

51. In the face of a mission-critical decision, people tend to __

[A]trust their own efforts

[B] rely on research findings

[C] get affected by other's opinion

[D] seek help from the more knowledgeable

【答案】C

【解析】在面对一个重要的决定，人们更容易受别人的建议的影响,选择 C。






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52. Research that when faced with difficult problems people often __

[A] discount others' advice

[B] overlook others' advice

[C] disagree with others' advice

[D] over-rely on others' advice

【答案】D

【解析】I found that people tend to overvalue advice when the problem they're addressing is

hard and to undervalue it when the problem is easy. 从这句话中，可以看出当人们遇到的问题难

度大时，他们会过高估计别人给他的建议,选择 D。

53. The first experiment tries to prove how objective conditions __

[A] strengthen people's initial opinion

[B] strengthen people's self-confidence

[C] influence people's response to advice

[D] influence people's guess of weight loss

【答案】C

【解析】客观条件在很大程度上影响人们对建议的采纳。选择 C。

54. It can be inferred that people are likely to __

[A] undervalue free advice

[B] overvalue peer's advice

[C] misinterpret specialist advice

[D] misjudge their instinctual belief

【答案】A

【解析】Another advice-related prejudice I've found compels people to overvalue advice that

they pay for. 从这句话中，可以看出人们过分重视他们付了钱而得到的建议。对于免费的建议，

他们会低估。选择 A。

55. The two experiments mentioned in the text reveal __

[A] how to follow others' advice

[B] how to understand others' advice

[C] what causes people to seek advice

[D] what affects people's attitude to advice

【答案】D

【解析】文中进行的两个实验揭示了一些道理，客观条件会影响人们对待得到的建议的态度。






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选择 D。

Text 3

Top National Health Service (NHS) nurses will be able to earn $ 40,000 a year without leaving

frontline patient care in a modification to salary structures. New "super nurse" grades will be created

to enable the best staff to increase their salaries without having to move into management desk jobs.

Currently the most senior NHS nurses can earn a maximum $ 28,000 a year unless they are willing to

withdraw from the frontline and become administrators. Hundreds of experienced and

"highly-qualified nurses are lost to patient care every year because of this oddity.

While only a few thousand of Britain's 332,000 NHS nurses will qualify for the $ 40,000-plus

salary, fast-track promotion schemes and a simpler grading system will increase the pay of many more.

The government announced that a new simplified career structure would see just four grades replacing

the existing six. Nurses will begin their careers as healthcare assistants before moving up to registered

practitioner grade, followed by senior registered practitioner and ultimately, consultant practitioner

and a $ 40,000 salary.

"Nurses are rising to the challenge of modernization," said a government official. "These

proposals will help them improve their professional role further and provide a better service to

patients. We do not think that in order to be paid more, nurses should have to move into management.

Nurses working at the sharp end of patient care should have a career structure which no longer

penalizes them for wanting to stay there. "

The Nursing Strategy will include proposals to allow more flexible training courses and improve

opportunities for qualified nurses who have left the profession to return in part-time roles. The Royal

College of Nursing welcomed the reforms. The top salary level falls into line with figures it had

presented to ministers.

56. Hundreds of experienced nurses are lost to patient care every year because they __

[A] dislike the nursing job

[B] are dissatisfied with their pay

[C] are replaced by "super nurses"

[D] lack further training for the profession

【答案】B

【解析】每年都有经验丰富的护士不干护工了，他们都想晋升到管理层，这样工资会得到提升。

选择 B。

57. The new system will mostly benefit those who

[A] move into management

[B] work on a part time basis

[CI have retired from the nursing job

[D] have reached the top of the system

【答案】D






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【解析】New "super nurse" grades will be created to enable the best staff to increase their

salaries without having to move into management desk jobs. 新的“超级护士”制度将可以使得

最好的护士的工资有所增加，并且不用晋升到管理层职位。

58. The new career structure is different from the existing one in its

[A] quality of nurses' services

[B] possibility of a job transfer

[C] opportunities for promotion

[D] simplicity of nurses' grades

【答案】D

【解析】The government announced that a new simplified career structure would see just four

grades replacing the existing six. 从这句话中，可以看出选择 D。

59. The Nursing Strategy will be adopted in order to __

[A] provide more consultation to practitioners

[B] encourage experienced nurses to work part time

[C]enable the most experienced nurses to be paid more

[D] promote the most experienced nurses to management

【答案】B

【解析】The Nursing Strategy will include proposals to allow more flexible training courses and

improve opportunities for qualified nurses who have left the profession to return in part-time

roles. 从这句话中可以看出，护理策略将会被采用，为了提供更灵活的培训课程及可以使得称

职的护士兼职工作。选择 B。

60. The Royal College of Nursing __________.

[A] proposed similar top salary for nurses

[B] raised the management issue to ministers

[C] suggested a four-grade system for nurses

[D] put forward the Nursing Strategy to ministers

【答案】A

【解析】The Royal College of Nursing welcomed the reforms. The top salary level falls into line

with figures it had presented to ministers. to fall in line with 同意，符合。选择 A。

Part B

Directions: Read the texts from a magazine article in which five people talked about the importance

of doing exercise. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each person to one of the

statements ( A to G) given below. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.






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Ankita Agarwal:

Your article made me ashamed. I've always thought of myself as not the typical self-absorbed

teenager, but I guess I was wrong. While I sit in my large, warm and cozy house, wishing for the shoes

and clothes I see in teen magazines, there are people in the world wishing for something as simple as

clean water. Thank you for reminding me about people who would be more than happy with what I

have.

Janet Tejada:

What about the relationship between population, consumption and resources? After all, poverty,

most simply defined, is not having enough resources. The steady growth of the global population,

overconsumption of resources by developed nations such as the U. S., and increasing levels of

consumption among the growing middle class in many developing nations ensure that there is ever

less of the planet's already dwindling resources to go around.

Tadaship Kawabe:

Extreme poverty is so tragic. Sudden natural disasters like an earthquake mobilize a large number

of people and money for a short period of time, while the slow but massive wave of poverty and death

in Africa doesn't attract the world's attention in the same way. When we try to help those affected by

disasters and extreme poverty, however, we shouldn't focus on the overwhelming number of the dead

but simply try to do something good for others.

Jane Thomas:

The poor should be trained to organize, set priorities and develop skills and resources to put their

own community plans into action. What your article proposes is the conventional top-down way for

doing things: outsiders determine the priorities and solutions, then throw money at them. To actually

help, we must first develop our own skills and understanding. We need to find out what the poor want

and what the root causes of the problems are. We have to listen to poor people.

Sanjay Kathe:

Concerned and sensible people's endeavors to reduce poverty in underdeveloped countries are

deserving of high praise. It is sad, however, that only a small pa~ of the funds raised for the poor

actually reach them. The generous people who donate money to reduce poverty would be more

successful if they spent time in the poor nations to check first-hand the use of their funds.

Now match the name of each person(61 to 65) to the appropriate statement．

Note：there are two extra statements．

Statements

61. Ankita Agarwal

62. Janet Tejada

63.Tadaship Kawabe

64. Jane Thomas

65. Sanjay Kathe

[A] What we should do is to help the poor help themselves.

[B] I have always been deeply grieved by the tragic disasters.

[C] The root of poverty lies in the unfair distribution of resources.

[D] The situation in Africa has been overlooked by the world.

[E] The use of donated funds should be put under strict control.






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[F] People living in prosperity should cherish what they have.

[G] it's our duty to end global poverty.

61.【答案】F

【解析】While I sit in my large, warm and cozy house, wishing for the shoes and clothes I see in

teen magazines, there are people in the world wishing for something as simple as clean water。

Ankita Agarwal 提到当她坐在温暖的，舒适的房间里，渴望得到杂志刊登的衣服和鞋子时，世

界上的一部分人却只是想得到干净的水。所以富裕的人应该珍惜自己所拥有的。

62.【答案】G

【解析】Janet Tejada 提到贫穷就是没有足够的资源。人口的增长，资源的过度消耗使得地球

上的资源越来越少，所以杜绝贫穷是我们的责任。

63. 【答案】D

【解析】 Tadaship Kawabe 提到非洲的贫穷和死亡并没有引起世界人民的关注。所以选择 D。

世界人民忽略了非洲的状况。

64. 【答案】A

【解析】Jane Thomas 提到为了真正的帮助穷人，我们必须培养自身的技能，并发现穷人真正

需要什么，贫穷的根源是什么。我们得听听穷人的心声。穷人应该培养自身技能，将自己社区

计划付诸行动。

65. 【答案】E

【解析】Sanjay Kathe 提到，令人悲伤的是，穷人只享用了筹集资金的一部分，慷慨的人如果

花时间来监督贫穷国家使用资金的过程上，这样会更好。

SECTION IV Writing ( 40 minutes)

Directions: You should write your responses to both Part A and Part B of this section on ANSWER

SHEET 2.

Part A

66. You've just moved into a neighborhood where you find the current public transport is

inadequate, and so you want a new bus line opened to solve the problem.

Write a letter to the bus company,

1) making a request for a new bus line ;

2) stating the reasons for your request;

3) expressing your eagerness for solution.






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【范文】

Dear Sir or Madam,

Recently, I gladly moved into this neighborhood. The people here are so friendly and the infrastructure

construction here is also so satisfactory. Nevertheless, I find that the current public transport is

inadequate and it is not so convenient for people to take bus. So I’d like to suggest that a new bus line

be opened so that our people in the neighborhood can conveniently take the bus. I am so eager to hope

that you can accept my suggestions.

Yours sincerely,

Part B

You should write about 100 words. Do not sign your own name at the end of your email.

Use "Wang Lin" instead. You do not need to write the address.

67. Look at the picture below and write an essay of about 120 words making reference to the

following two points:

1 ) a description of the picture ;

2) your suggestions on how to protect consumers' rights.

【范文】

On the left picture, the man should find that a button fell off, after three days when he just

bought a coat. On the right picture, a fashionable woman just bought a pair of high-heeled shoes and

she finds that the heel is off. From the pictures, we can conclude that the rights of customers are not so






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well protected. Producers should promise that once quality problems arise, customers have the right to

return the goods in 30 days and have the right to exchange the goods for a new one in at least 60 days.

And the customer enjoys maintenance services in half a year since she/he buys the product. In this

way, the right of customer can be surely protected.

Your sincerely,

Wang Lin

【写作思路】

这种看图作文首先要求就两幅图片进行简要描述，之后根据画面内容揭示出“画外之音”，

对于本文来说就是提出保护消费者权益的建议。写作的时候要注意描述和评论相结合，达到相

得益彰的效果。写作时文章要注意分段，体现出一定的层次感；当然，对于书信内写作，格式

也是要格外注意的一部分。

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