公共英语等级考试（PETS）二级真题2

阅读下⾯短⽂，从短⽂后所给各题的四个选项(［A］、［B］、［C］和［D］)中选出能填⼊相应空⽩处的选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂⿊。

I usually don’t take the subway(地铁) to get to my office, but it’s a good thing I did last Tuesday. I 36 a man sitting opposite me who 37 to be extremely nervous. He was 38 wide eyed at one of the advertisements(⼴告) in the car. Then his hands started to 39. I took my medical bag and 40 to him.

“Well, what 41 seems to be wrong with you?” I asked.

He pointed at an advertisement 42 the good qualities of a 43 kind of shirt. It 44:“It will not wilt, shrink, crease, or wrinkle.”“Well, 45 about it?”

“I’m going 46,” he said. “I can read it to myself, but I can’t says it out 47.”

“My dear man,” I comforted him, “you can say it. Of course you can. You’re 48 a little nervous. This is just a nervous attack. You must not 49. You must try and say it. Now say it.”

“It...it will not wilt, crink, wack, or shrinkle,” he said, and with a groan(呻吟) he 50 his face with his hands.

“Now come. 51 me,” I told him, “and learn how perfectly simple the whole 52 is.” I continued in a firm voice:“It will not wink, shink, wack, or cinkle.” Oh, my！ I 53 several times, each was wrong in a different way.

The man 54, and appeared completely recovered. I was 55. The man was cured. Of course, I had been putting on an act.

36.［A］cured［B］met ［C］taught ［D］noticed

37.［A］turned ［B］appeared［C］pretended ［D］meant

38.［A］admiring［B］screaming ［C］pointing ［D］staring

39.［A］move ［B］shake ［C］touch ［D］wave

40.［A］came back ［B］went on ［C］rushed over ［D］looked over

41.［A］generally ［B］exactly ［C］usually ［D］naturally

42.［A］telling about ［B］showing off ［C］calling for［D］dealing with

43.［A］common ［B］regular ［C］famous ［D］certain

44.［A］admitted ［B］said ［C］proved ［D］called

45.［A］what ［B］how ［C］talk ［D］think

46.［A］crazy ［B］ahead ［C］angry ［D］back

47.［A］loud ［B］alone ［C］freely ［D］completely

48.［A］truly ［B］really ［C］simply ［D］particularly

49.［A］stop ［B］give in ［C］hurry up ［D］look

50.［A］covered ［B］turned ［C］hid ［D］touched

51.［A］Talk to ［B］Allow ［C］Listen to ［D］Show

52.［A］advertisement ［B］problem ［C］situation ［D］thing

53.［A］tried ［B］spelled ［C］spoke ［D］explained

54.［A］was anxious ［B］was nervous ［C］laughed ［D］shouted

55.［A］interested ［B］delighted ［C］worried ［D］astonished

第三部分阅读理解

阅读下列短⽂，从每题所给的四个选项(［A］、［B］、［C］和［D］)中选出选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂⿊。

A

Ann Curry is a famous news presenter of the NBC News “Today” show. When she was 15 she happened to walk into a bookstore in her hometown and began looking at the books on the shelves. The man behind the counter, Mac McCarley, asked if she’d like a job. She needed to start saving for college, so she said yes.

Ann worked after school and during summer vacations, and the job helped pay for her first year of college. During college she would do many other jobs: she served coffee in the student union(学⽣会), was a hotel maid and even made maps for the U.S. Forest Service. But selling books was one of the most satisfying jobs.

One day a woman came into the bookstore and asked Ann for books on cancer(癌症). The woman seemed anxious. Ann showed her practically everything they had and found other books they could order. The woman left the store less worried, and Ann has always remembered the pride she felt in having helped her customer.

Years later, as a television reporter in Los Angeles, Ann heard about a child who was born with problems with his fingers and his hand. His family could not afford a surgical(外科的) operation, and the boy lived in shame, hiding his hand in his pocket all the time.

Ann persuaded her boss to let her do the story. After the story was broadcast, a doctor and a nurse called, offering to perform the surgical operation for free.

Ann visited the boy in the recovery room after the operation. The first thing he did was to hold up his repaired hand and say,“Thank you.” What a sweet sense of satisfaction Ann Curry felt!

At McCarely’s bookstore, Ann always sensed she was working for the customers, not the store. Today it’s the same. NBC News pays her, but she feels as if she works for the people who watch the programmes, helping them make sense of the world.56.Ann Curry got her first job .

［A］from her friend in a bookstore［B］a couple of years before college

［C］at the NBC news “Today” show［D］when she was studying at university

57.At which part time job did Ann Curry feel the happiest?

［A］The hotel.［B］The bookstore.

［C］The student union.［D］The US Forest Service.

58.What particularly gives her the feeling of pride?

［A］Helping people through work.［B］Reporting interesting stories.

［C］Being able to do different jobs well.

［D］Paying through her college education.

59.How did Ann help the child get the operation he needed?

［A］Ann persuaded the boy to speak on TV.

［B］Ann paid for the operation herself.

［C］Ann’s boss agreed to raise money.

［D］Ann’s news report moved some doctors.

B

Last April, on a visit to the new Mall of America near Minneapolis, I carrid with me a small book provided for the reporters by the public relations office. It included a variety of “fun facts” about the mall, such as:140 000 hot dogs are sold each week, there are 10 000 full time jobs, 44 sets of moving stairs and 17 lifts, 12 750 parking places, 13 000 tons of steel, and ＄1 million is drawn weekly from 8 ATMs. Opened in the summer of 1992, the mall was built where the former Minneapolis Stadium(体育馆) had been. It was only a five minute drive from the Minneapolis St. Paul International Airport. With 4.2 million square feet of floor space — twenty two times the size of the average American shopping center — the Mall of America was the largest shopping and family recreation(娱乐)center under one roof in the United States.

I knew already that the Mall of America had been imagined by its designers, not merely as a marketplace, but as a national tourist attraction. Eleven thousand articles, the small book informed me, had been written about the mall. Four hundred trees had been planted in its gardens, ＄625 million had been spent to build it, and 350 stores were already in business. Three thousand bus tours were expected each year along with a half million Canadian visitors and 200 000 Japanese tourists. Sales were expected to be at ＄650 million for 1993 and at ＄1 billion for 1996. Pop singers and film stars such as Janet Jackson and Arnold Schwarzenegger had visited the mall. It was five times larger than Red Square and it included 2.3 miles of hallways and used almost twice as much steel as the Eiffel Tower. It was also home to the nation’s largest indoor park, called Knott’s Camp Snoopy.

60.We know from the text that the Mall of America is .

［A］near an old stadium［B］close to an airport

［C］higher than the Eiffel Tower［D］bigger than most America parks

61.Why are the pieces of information provided by Mall of America referred to as “fun facts”?

［A］They are largely imagined.［B］They are surprising figures.

［C］They give exact descriptions.［D］They make people feel uneasy.

62.What’s the point of mentioning popular stars who had been to the mall?

［A］To show its power of attraction.

［B］To show that few rich people like to shop there.

［C］To tell the public about a new movie being made about it.

［D］To tell people that they have chances of meeting famous stars there.

63.We can infer from the text that .

［A］Japanese visitors are most welcome to the mall

［B］Canadian visitors would spend ＄1 billion at the mall

［C］Knott’s Camp Snoopy was next to the Mall of America

［D］the Mall of America was designed to serve more than one purpose