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PETS第五级全真模拟试卷（3）Section Use of English( 15 minutes)Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word.Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.The more gadgets there are, the (31) _ things seem to get. said Honore Ervin, co-author of The Etiquette Girls: Things You Need to Be Told. Just because it s there ( 32 ) _ your disposal, doesn t mean you have to use it 24/7. A recent (33)_ by market research company Synovate showed that 70 percent of 1,000 respondents (34) _ the poorest etiquette in cell phone users over other devices. The worst habit? Loud phone conversations in public places, or cell yell, ( 35 ) _ to 72 percent of the Americans polled.People use (36)_anywhere and everywhere, Ervin said. At the movies-turn (37)_ your cell phone. I don t want to pay $10 to be sitting next to some guy chitchatting to his girlfriend (38) _ his cell phone. This rudeness has deteriorated public spaces, according to Lew Friedland, a communication professor (39) _ the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He (40) _ the lack of manners a kind of unconscious rudeness, (41)_ many people are not (42) _ of what they re doing or the others around them.I think it s really noticeable in any plane, train or bus (43) _ you re subjected against your will (44) _ someone else s conversation, he said. You can listen to intimate details of their uncle s illness, problems with their lovers and (45) _ they re having for sinner. It (46) _ what was a public common space and starts to (47) _ it up into small private space. A short time ago, if cell phone users (48) _ politely asked to talk quietly, they would (49) _with chagrin, he said. Now more and more people are essentially treating you like you don t understand that loud cell phone use is (50) _ in public. Section Reading Comprehension(50 minutes)Part A：Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1As long as her parents can remember, 13-year-old Katie Hart has been talking about going to college. Her mother, Tally, a financial-aid officer at a California University, knows all too well the daunting thing of paying for a college education. Last year the average yearly tuition at a private, four-year school climbed 5.5 percent to more than $17,000. The Harts have started saving, and figure they can afford a public university without a problem. But what if Katie applies to Princeton (shes threatening), where one years tuition, room and boardalmost $ 34, 000 in 2007-will cost more than some luxury cars? Even a number cruncher like Tally admits it s a little scary, especially since shell retire and Katie will go to college at around the same time.Paying for college has always been a hard endeavor. The good news: last year students collected $ 74 billion in financial aid, the most ever. Most families pay less than full freight. Sixty percent of public-university students and three quarters of those at private colleges receive some form of financial aid-mostly, these days, in the form of loans. But those numbers are not as encouraging as they appear for lower-income families, because schools are changing their formulas for distributing aid. Eager to boost their magazine rankings, which are based in part on the test scores of entering freshmen, they re throwing more aid at smarter kids-whether they need it or not.The best way to prepare is to start saving early. A new law passed last year makes that easier for some families. So-called 529 plans allow parents to sock away funds in federal-tax-free-investment accounts, as long as the money is used for qualified education expenses like tuition, room and board. The plans aren t for everyone. For tax reasons, some lower and middle income families may be better off choosing other investments. But saving is vital. When s the best time to start? Sometime, says Jack Joyoe of the College Board, between the maternity ward and middle school. Aid packages usually come in some combination of grants, loans and jobs. These days 60 percent of all aid comes in the form of low-interest loans. All students are eligible for unsubsidized federal Stafford loans, which let them defer interest payments until after graduation. Students who can demonstrate need can also qualify for federal Perkins loans or subsidized Staffords, where the government pays the interest during school. Fortunately, this is a borrower s market. Interest rates are at their lowest level in the history of student loans, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid. Kantrowitz expects rates to fall even further when they re reviewed this summer.Traditional scholarships, academic or athletic, are still a part of many families planning. Mack Reiter, a 17-year-old national wrestling champion, gets so many recruiting letters he throws most away. He ll almost certainly get a free ride. Without it, we would really be in a bind, says his mother, Janet. For everyone else, it s worth the effort to pick through local and national scholarship offerings, which can be found on Web sites like college-board, com.51. What does the author intend to illustrate with the example of the Harts?AThe difficulty of paying the tuition.BThe far-sight of the parents.CThe promising future of Katie.DThe increasing tuition in the university.52. What can we infer from the second paragraph?ASome families arc too poor to pay the full amount of the tuition.BThe parents do not favor the form of loans.CPaying the tuition makes the parents feel humble.DThose who are in great need may not get what they need.53. The last paragraph suggests that _Amany recruiting letters failed to provide Mack Reiter with scholarshipsBMack Reiter wanted to help his family go out of the troubleCtraditional scholarships are a good solution to the tuition problems in some familiesDMack Reiter was very proud of his national wrestling championship54. What does the author mean by better off ( Line 4, Paragraph 3 ) ?ARicher. BWiser.CHappier. DLuckier.55. Which of the following is true according to the text?AThe Harts prefer a public university to a private one.BIt is much easier to pay the tuition at present.CAll students can get the aid package.DTraditional scholarships are still attractive to some families.Text 2It was late in the afternoon, and I was putting the final touch on a piece of writing that I was feeling pretty good about. I wanted to save it, but my cursor had frozen. I tried to shut the computer down, and it seized up altogether. Unsure of what else to do, I yanked (用力猛拉) the battery out.Unfortunately, Windows had been in the midst of a delicate and crucial undertaking. The next morning, when I turned my computer back on, it informed me that a file had been corrupted and Windows would not load. Then, it offered to repair itself by using the Windows Setup CD.I opened the special drawer where I keep CDs, but no Windows CD in there. I was forced to call the computer company s Global Support Centre. My call was answered by a woman in some unnamed, far-off land. I find it annoying to make small talk with someone when I don t know what continent they re standing on. Suppose I were to comment on the beautiful weather we re been having when there was a monsoon at the other end of the phone? So I got right to the point.My computer is telling me a file is corrupted and it wants to fix itself, but I dont have the Windows Setup CD. So you re having a problem with your Windows Setup CD. She has apparently been dozing and, having come to just as the sentence ended, was attempting to cover for her inattention.It quickly became dear that the woman was not a computer technician. Her job was to serve as a gatekeeper, a human shield for the technicians. Her sole duty, as far as I could tell, was to raise global stress levels.To make me disappear, the woman gave me the phone number for Windows creator, Microsoft. This is like giving someone the phone number for, I don t know, North America. Besides, the CD worked; I just didn t have it. No matter how many times I repeated my story, we came back to the same place. She was calm and resolutely polite.When my voice hit a certain decibel (分贝), I was passed along, like a hot, irritable potato, to a technician.You don t have the Windows Setup CD, ma am, because you don t need it, he explained cheerfully.Windows came preinstalled on your computer!But I do need it. Yes, but you don t have it. We went on like this for a while. Finally, he offered to walk me through the use of a different CD, one that would erase my entire system. Of course, you d lose all your e-mail, your documents, your photos. It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache. You might he able to recover them, but it would be expensive. He sounded delighted. And it s not covered by the warranty (产品保证书) ! The safe began to seem like a good idea, provided it was full.I hung up the phone and drove my computer to a small, friendly repair place I d heard about. A smart, helpful man dug out a Windows CD and told me it wouldn t be a problem. An hour later, he called to let me know it was ready. I thanked him, and we chatted about the weather, which was the same outside my window as it was outside his.56. Why did the author shut down her computer abruptly?AShe had saved what she had written.BShe couldn t move the cursor.CThe computer refused to work.DThe computer offered to repair itself.57. Which of the following is the author s opinion about the woman at the Global Support Centre?AShe sounded helpful and knowledgeable.BShe was there to make callers frustrated.CShe was able to solve her computer problem.DShe was quick to pass her along to a technician.58. According to the passage, the solution offered by the technician was _Aeffective BeconomicalCunpractical Dunacceptable59. It was like offering to drop a safe on my head to cure my headache in the last but one paragraph meansthatAthe technician s proposal would make things even worse Bthe technician s proposal could eventually solve the problemCfiles stored on her computer were like a safeDerasing the entire system was like curing a headache60. It can be inferred from the passage that the differences between the Global Support Centre and the local repair shop lie in all the following EXCEPT _Aefficiency BlocationCSetup CDs DattitudeText 3Women s minds work differently from men s. At least, that is what most men are convinced of. Psychologists view the subject either as a matter or frustration or a joke. Now the biologists have moved into this minefield, and some of them have found that there are real differences between the brains of men and women. But being different, they point out hurriedly, is not the same as being better or worse.There is, however, a definite structural variation between the male and female brain. The difference is in a part of the brain that is used in the most complex intellectual processes-the link between the two halves of the brain.The two halves are linked by a trunkline of between 200 and 300 million nerves, the corpus callosum. Scientists have found quite recently that the corpus callosum in women is always larger and probably richer in nerve fibers than it is in men. This is the first time that a structural difference has been found between the brains of women and men and it must have some significance. The question is What?, and, if this difference exists, are there others? Re-search shows that present-day women think differently and behave differently from men. Are some of these differences biological and inborn, a result of evolution? We tend to think that is the influence of society that produces these differences. But could we be wrong?Research showed that these two halves of the brain had different functions, and that the corpus callosum enabled them to work together. For most people, the left half is used for wordhanding, analytical and logical activities; the right half works on pictures, patterns and forms. We need both halves working together. And the better the connections, the more harmoniously the two halves work. And, according to research findings, women have the better connections.But it isnt all that easy to explain the actual differences between skills of men and women on this basis. In schools throughout the world girls tend to be better than boys at language subjects and boys better at maths and physics. If these differences correspond with the differences in the hemispheric trunkline, there is an unalterable distinction between the sexes.We shan t know for a while, partly because we don t know of any precise relationship between abilities in school subject and the functioning of the two halves of the brain, and we cannot understand how the two halves inter-act via the corpus callosum. But this striking difference must have some effect and, because the difference is in the parts of the brain involved in intellect, we should be looking for differences in intellectual processing.61. Which of the following statements is CORRECT?ABiologists are conducting research where psychologists have given up.BBrain differences point to superiority of one sex over the other.CResults of scientific research fall to support popular belief.DThe structural difference in the brain between the sexes has long been known.62. According to the passage it is commonly believed that brain differences are caused by _ factors.Abiological B psychological Cphysical Dsocial63. these differences in paragraph 5 refer to those in _Askills of men and women Bschool subjectsCthe brain structure of men and women Dactivities carried out by the brain64. At the end of the passage the author proposes more work on _Athe brain structure as a whole Bthe functioning of part of the brainCthe distinction between the sexes Dthe effects of the corpus callosum65. What is the main purpose of the passage?ATo outline the research findings on the brain structure.BTo explain the link between sex and brain structure.CTo discuss the various factors that cause brain differences.DTo suggest new areas in brain research.Part B：In the following article some paragraphs have been removed. For Questions 66 - 70, choose the most suitable paragraph from the list A F to fit into each of the numbered gaps. There is one paragraph which does not fit in any of the gaps. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.According to the American Academy of Dermatology, an estimated 10 to 50 million people in this country have an allergic reaction to poison ivy each year. Poison ivy is often very difficult to spot. It closely resembles several other common garden plants, and can also blend in with other plants and weeds. But if you come into contact with it, you ll soon know by the itchy, blistery rash that forms on your skin. Poison ivy is a red, itchy rash caused by the plant that bears its name. Many people get it when they are hiking or working in their garden and accidentally come into direct contact with the plant s leaves, roots, or stems. The poison ivy rash often looks like red lines, and sometimes it forms blisters.66_About 85 percent of people are allergic to the urushiol in poison ivy, according to the American Academy of Dermatology. Only a tiny amount of this chemical-1 billionth of a gram-is enough to cause a rash in many people. Some people may boast that they ve been exposed to poison ivy many times and have never gotten the rash, but that doesn t necessarily mean they re not allergic. Sometimes the allergy doesn t emerge until you ve been ex-posed several times, and some people develop a rash after their very first exposure. It may take up to ten days for the rash to emerge the first time.67_ Here are some other ways to identify the poison ivy plant. It generally grows in a cluster of low, weed-like plants or a woody vine which can climb trees or fences. It is most often found in moist areas, such as riverbanks, woods, and pastures. The edges of the leaves are generally smooth or have tiny teeth. Their color changes based on the season-reddish in the spring; green in the summer; and yellow, orange, or red in the fall. Its berries are typically white.68_ The body s immune system is normally in the business of protecting us from bacteria, viruses, and the foreign invaders that can make us sick. But when urushiol from the poison ivy plant touches the skin, it instigates an immune response, called dermatitis, to what would otherwise be a harmless substance. Hay fever is another example of this type of response; in the case of hay fever, the immune system overreacts to pollen, or another plant-produced substance.69_ The allergic reaction to poison ivy is known as delayed hypersensitivity. Unlike immediate hypersensitivity, which causes an allergic reaction within minutes of exposure to an antigen, delayed hypersensitivity reactions don t emerge for several hours or even days after the exposure.70_ In the places where your skin has come into contact with poison ivy leaves or urushiol, within one to two days you 11 develop a rash, which will usually itch, redden, bum, swell, and form blisters. The rash should go away within a week, but it can last longer. The severity of the reaction often has to do with how much urushiol you ve touched. The rash may appear sooner in some parts of the body than in others, but it