9月全国英语等级考试（PETS-2）阅读理解真题及答案

1、姓名：_ 班级：_ 学号：_-密-封 -线- 9月全国英语等级考试（pets-2）阅读理解真题及答案考试时间：120分钟 考试总分：100分题号一二三四五总分分数遵守考场纪律，维护知识尊严，杜绝违纪行为，确保考试结果公正。bc和d四个选项中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。text 1the firsttime i heard the actual london bridge was in lake havasu city，arizona， i thought it was a joke a stupidjoke at that i mean， what sort of moron wo

2、uld take aperfectly good， perfectly famous bridge and move it halfway around the world tosome noname town in northwest arizona? back in 1962 when all this started，lake havasu city was nothing a couple of shops，a couple of homes， and no tourism at allit turns outrobert mcculloch is the moron in quest

3、ion， and hewasnt quite the moron i thought he was his 245million dollar investment（投资） in the 130yearoldbridgewhich the british government was selling becauseit was about to fall into the thames（泰晤士河）endedup being the investment of a lifetime you seemcculloch was a real businessman， among otherthing

4、s， and his money paid off big he turnedlake havasu into one of the most visited tourist attractionsin arizonait took ninelong years to take down the bridge， ship itbrick by brick to the middle of nowhere，and build it up again when it finally did open up in 1971，it was a huge deal covered by the inte

5、rnational pressthe bridgeis now a popular tourist attraction， and theres even a mini “english village” at the foot of the bridge withsouvenirs （纪念品 ） and real british food so you can have a good old timenowadayslake havasu is a busy town with a population of about 56，000citizens and another25 millio

6、n visitors each yearmost of that is during spring break when the town overflows with energetic boysand girls even mtv and the girls gone wild people get in on the actionall thanks to that little bridgei don tknow about you， but i m saving my pennies when thefrench get sick of that eiffel tower， i 11

7、 bethe first to put money on it it 11 look great in my backyard56the underlined word “moron” in the first paragraph meansa a braveperson b a foolish person c a famous person d a strange person57why did the british government put the london bridge up for sale? a itpolluted the thames b it was no long

8、er popular c it wasgoing to fall down d itcould bring them the needed money58what was lake havasu city like before 1962? a it wasa good place for investment b it was known for its englishvillage c it wasa small town with no tourism d it had a population of 56，000citizens59in the last paragraph， the

9、author tries to be a polite b friendly c practical d humoroustext 2studies overthe past decade at the university of utah show that handsfreecellphones are just as harmful to drivers as handheld onesbecause it is the conversation， not the phone，that is distracting（分散） their attention”even though your

10、 eyes are looking right at something，when you are on the cellphone， you are not as likely to see it，”says professor david strayer “ninetyninepercent of the time， its not that critical（危急的），but that l% could be the time a child runs into the street，”he addsdrstrayer s studies have also found that tal

11、king on a cellphone is far moredistracting than talking with a passenger listeningto the radio， to music or to a book on tape also isn t as distracting，because it doesn t require the same level of interaction as a conversationbut even drivers may miss some details of a book on tape if their attentio

12、n isfocused on driving tasks some people can train themselves topay extra attention to things that are importantlike policeofficers learn to search faces in crowdsand the utahresearchers have found a rare group of “supertaskers”about25% of the populationwho seemable to attend to more than one thing

13、with easemany morepeople think they can effectively do several things at the same time，but they are really turning their attention rapidly between two things and notgetting the full effect of either clearly，it is easier to put some tasks together than others”not all distractions are the same，” saysd

14、r strayer things like cleaning and workingout can be done automatically（自动地） while the mind is focusedelsewhere but doing homework and texting at the same time isn t possibleeven talking and watching tv is difficult “justtry talking with your wife while watching footballit s impossible，” jokes drstr

15、ayer60what is the first paragraph mainly about? a theharm in using phones while driving b theadvantages of handheld phones c thedanger of running in the street d thecauses of road accidents61what does the example of police officers in paragraph 2 show? asearching for faces require more attention than driving b talking to a crowd calls for a high level of attention c one sattention can be easily distracted in crowds d theability to attend to two tasks can be trained62”supertaskers” can be best described as people who can a doseveral things effectively at the same time b turn their