公共英语3级PET3模拟试题

全国公共英语等级考试（3级）模拟试题

公共英语3级(PET3)模拟试题

This section is designed to test your ability to understand

spoken will hear a selection of recorded materials

and you must

answer the questions that accompany them. There are two parts

in this section, Part A and Part er, while you are

doing the test, you should first

put down your answers in your test booklet. At the end of the

listening comprehension section, you will have 3 minutes to

transfer your answers from your test booklet onto your ANSWER

SHEET you have any questions, you may raise your hand.

Now as

公共英语3级(PET3)模拟试题

You will hear 10 short dialogues. For each dialogue, there

is one question and four possible answers. Choose the correct

answer—A, B, C or D, and mark it in your test booklet. You will

have 15 seconds to answer the question and you will hear each

dialogue ONLY ONCE.

You will hear:W: Could you please tell me if the flight will

be arriving

on time?

M: Yes, Madam. It should be arriving about ten minutes.

Who do you think the woman i

［A］［

］［C

a clerk at the airportB］

a clerk at the station］D［

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From the dialogue, we know that only a clerk at the airport

is most likely to know the arrival time of a flight, so you

an］［Bshould choose answer

A

［］［DSample Answer: ［A］［

Now look at question 1

Part

］CB］

A］［［B］C［［D］

］A［

cheaper B］［

］

［C］

［D］

3. Why is he going to talk to the lady over there?．

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］［A

［B］［C

］

Becaus［D］

4. According to the dialogue, what kind of shirt is more

A］［［B

］

［C］

］［D

conversation?end of the woman feel does the at the 5. How

］A［B］［

［C］［D］

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］［A

B］［［C

］

The job should be done as

［D］

A］［

［B

］

C］［［D

］

A］［［B

Scho］

］C［［D

］

A［］

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］B［

He had often ［C］

D］［

］［A

B］［

［C］ Professor Goldsmith has to choose the destination

It's

D］［

You are going to hear four conversations. Before listening

to each conversation, you will have 5 seconds to read each of

the questions which accompany it. After listening, you will

have time to answer each question by choosing A, B, C or D. You

will hear each conversation ONLY ONCE. Mark your answers in your

Questions 11—13 are based on a lecture about education in

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the national ］［A

B］［

C［］

［D12. How many percentage did the American

the state laws］young people

］A［

［B］［C

］

seventy five

［D］

］［A

B］

［

［C］

D［］

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Questions 14—17 are based on a conversation you are going

］［A

B］［

［C］ The library had a special display on the Industrial

Revolution

］［D

］［A

B］［［C

］

D［］

16. According to the man, what happens to all the books in

］［A

［B］

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］［C

D］［

17. According to the man, what does the librarian behind

［A］ copies down the name and the address of each

B］［［C

］

D］［

Questions 18—21 are based on a conversation you are going

18. What does

［A］［B

］

C］［

D［］

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19. Why doesn't the woman want to give up her apartment

［A

entirely?

］

［B］ She would have difficulty finding another

C］［

［D

］

］［A

B］［［C

］

D［］

21. What will the woman most likely do about her

A［］

［B］

［C］

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］［D

Questions 22—25 are based on a conversation you are going

to hear .

A］［

［B

］

［C］［D

］

They have a ］［A［B

］

［C］［D

］

］［A

［B］

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when they reserve a r］［C

D］［

］［A

B］［

［C］

D］［

lish (15 minutes)Section ⅡUse of Eng

Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for

each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on your ANSWER SHEET

Many teachers believe that the responsibilities for

learning lie with the student. ( D ) a long reading assignment

is given, instructors expect students to be familiar with the

or take an exam. The 28B student is considered to be 29B who

is motivated to learn for the sake of , not the one interested

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only in getting high grades. Sometimes homework is returned 31B

brief written comments but without a grade. Even if a grade is

not given, the student is for learning the material assigned.

When research is , the professor expects the student to take

it actively and to complete it with guidance. It is the

responsibility to find books, magazines, and articles in the

university library works; they expect students, 37 Agraduate

students, to be able to exhaust the reference 38 Cin the

library.

Professors will help students who need it, but 39D that their

students should not be dependent on them. In the , professors

have many other duties 41D teaching, such as administrative or

research work. 42B, the time that a professor can spend with

a student outside of class is 43B. If a student has problems

with classroom work, the student should either 44D a professor

during office hour make an appointment.

SincD］］［C Because

［］26. ［A If［B］ Although

］ abstract［D［ suggestion［B］ contextC］［27. A］

］［］ averageD［［［28. A］ poorB］ idealC［］［］［29. A suchB oneC anyD］

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D］］ learning［ fun［B］ work［CA30. ［］

for

］［DB］ in［C］31. ［A］ by［

32. ［A］

criticized［B］ innocent［C］ responsible［D］

33. ［A］ collected［B］ distributed［C］ assigned［D］

］［D［C］ possible］34. ［A］ maximum［B minimum

35. ［A］ student's［B］ professor's［C］ assistant's［D］

D］］ why［ when［B］ what［C［36. A］

37. ［A］

particularly［B］ essentially［C］ obviously

］［D

38. ［A］ selections［B］ collections［C］ sources［D］

］ like［D dislike［B］［C］ hate39. ［A］

D much［］CBA40. ［］ too［］ such［］

withC

exceptB butA41. ［］［］［］［D］

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42. ［A］ However［B］ Therefore［C］ Furthermore［D］

］ irregular［DB］ limited［C］［43. A］ plentiful［

D］C］ approach［］44. ［A］ greet［B annoy［D］［B］ and［C］ to［［45. A］ or

Section ⅢReading

Comprehension (40 minutes)

Read the following three texts. Answer the questions on

each text by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answer on the ANSWER

SHEET by drawing a thick line across the corresponding letter

The dog, called Prince, was an intelligent animal and a

slave to Williams. From morning till night, when Williams was

at home, Prince never left his sight, practically ignoring all

other members of the family. The dog had a number of clearly

defined duties, for which Williams had patiently trained him

公共英语3级(PET3)模拟试题

and, like the good pupil he was, Prince lived for the chance

to demonstrate his Williams wanted to put on

his boots, he would murmur

“Boots” and within seconds the dog would drop them at his feet.

At nine every morning, Prince ran off to the general store in

the village, returning shortly not only with Williams' daily

possessed a large soft mouth specially evolved for the safe

carrying of hunted creatures, so the paper and the tobacco came

Williams was a railwayman, an engine driver, and he wore

a blue uniform which smelled of oil and oil fuel. He had to work

at odd times —“days”, “late days” or “nights”. Over the

years Prince got to know these periods of work and rest, knew

when his master would leave the house and return, and the dog

did not waste this knowledge. If Williams overslept, as he often

did, Prince barked at the bedroom door until he woke, much to

the annoyance of the family. On his return, Williams' slippers

were brought to him, the paper and tobacco too if previously

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A curious thing happened to Williams during the snow and

ice of last winter. One evening he slipped and fell on the icy

pavement somewhere between the village and his home. He was so

badly shaken that he stayed in bed for three days; and not until

he got up and dressed again did he discover that he had lost

his wallet containing over fifty pounds. The house was turned

upside down in the search, but the wallet was not found.

However,

two days later—that was five days after the fall—Prince

dropped the wallet into William's hand. Very muddy, stained and

pounds, Williams' driving license and a few other papers. Where

the dog had found it no one could tell, but found it he had and

recognized it probably by the faint oily smell on the worn

He was delighted to show them off.A［］

B］［

［C］

［D］

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］［A

Their teeth B］［［C

］［D

］

A］［

［B］

C］

［

［D］

A］［

［B］

Williams mad［C］

D［］

50. Williams did not realise his loss for several days

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A］［

［B

］

he thought the wallet was in C］［［D

］

About ten men in every hundred suffer from colour blindness

in some way; women are luckier only about one in two hundred

is affected in this manner. There are different forms of colour

blindness. A man may not be able to see deep may think

that red, orange and yellow are all shades of

green. Sometimes a person cannot tell the difference between

blue and green. In rare cases an unlucky man may see everything

a stranin shades of green—

In certain occupations colour blindness can be dangerous

and candidates are tested most carefully. For example, when

fighting at night, soldiers use lights of flares to signal to

each other. A green light may mean “Advance” and a red light

may mean “Danger! Keep back!”, You can see what will happen

human

in blindness Colour green! is red that thinks somebody if

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beings is a strange thing to explain. In a single eye there are

millions of very small things called “cones”, These help to

see in a bright light and to tell the difference between

colours.

There are also millions of “rods” but these are used for

seeing when it is nearly dark. They show us shape but not colour.

Wait until it is dark tonight, then go outside. Look round you

and try to

Birds and animals which hunt at night have eyes which

contain few or no cones at all, so they cannot see colours. As

far as we know, bats and adult owls cannot see colours at all

only light and dark shapes. Similarly cats and dogs cannot see

may seem grey and dull to us, but to insects they may appear

beautiful, showing colours which we cannot see. Scientists know

that there are other colours around us which insects can see

but which we cannot see. Some insects have favorite colours.

Mosquitoes like blue, but do not like yellow. A red light will

not attract insects but a

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］［A

B］［

［C］ few may think that red, orange and yellow are all

［D］ very few may think that everything in the world is

52. When millions of rods in our eyes are at work in darkness

］［A

B］［［C

］

D［］

53. According to the passage, bats and adult owls cannot

A［］

［B］

［C］

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］［D

as well as human beings can not see ］［A

［B］［C

］

［D］

A］［

InsecB］［

］C［

［D］ The world is more colorful to insects than to human

A child who has once been pleased with a tale likes, as rule,

to have it retold in identically the same words, but this should

texts.

sacred as stories fairy printed treat to parents lead not

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It is always much better to tell a story than read it out of

a book, and, if a parent can produce what, in the actual

circumstances of the time and the individual child, is an

improvement on the printed text, so much the better.A charge

made against fairy tales is that they harm the

child by frightening him or arousing his sadistic impulses. To

prove the latter, one would have to show in a controlled

experiment that children who have read fairy stories were more

often guilty of cruelty than those who had not. Aggressive,

destructive, sadistic impulses every child has and, on the

whole, their symbolic verbal discharge seems to be rather a

safety valve than an incitement to overt action. As to fears,

dangerously terrified by some fairy stories. Often, however,

this arises from the child having heard the story once.

Familiarity with the story by repetition turns the pain of fear

There are also people who object to fairy stories on the

grounds that they are not objectively true, that giants,

c., do not exist;

and that, instead of indulging his fantasies in fairy tales,

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the child should be taught how to adapt to reality by studying

history and mechanics. I find such people, I must confess, so

unsympathetic and peculiar that I do not know how to argue with

them. If their case were sound, the world should be full of

madmen attempting to fly from to on a broomstick or covering

a telephone with kisses in the belief that it was their

No fairy story ever claimed to be a description of the

external world and no sane child had ever believed that it

［A］ cannot be read to children without variation because

bis adapted more effective if it be ［B］ will

［C］ must be made easy so that children can read it on their

［D］ is no longer needed in developing children's power

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57. According to the passage, some people who are openly

［A］ fairy tales are harmful to children in that they show

［B］ fairy tales are harmful to children unless they have

been adapted by their parent［C］ fairy tales increase a

tendency to sadism in

［D］ children who have read fairy stories pay little

attention to the study of history and mechanics58. In the

writer's opinion to rid children of fears, fairy

stories should be. B

A］［［B

］

C］［

［］D

59. In the w

［A］

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［B］ have advantages in cultivating children's

C］［［D

］

60. According to the passage, which of the following

［A］ If children indulged his fantasies in fairy tales

instead of beingtaught how to adapt to reality by studying

history and

［B］ Children can often be greatly terrified when the fairy

［C］ Fairy tales may beneficially direct children's

［D］ Fairy tales are no more than stories about imaginary

figures with magical powers which has nothing to do with

公共英语3级(PET3)模拟试题

Read the texts from an article in which five people talked

about smoking. For questions 61 to 65, match the name of each

person (1 to 5) to one of the statements (A to G) given below.

Mark your answers on your ANSWER SHEET.

If you smoke and you still don't believe that there's a

definite link between smoking and bronchial troubles, heart

disease and lung cancer, then you are certainly deceiving

yourself. Just have a look at those people in hospital with

these diseases and count how many of them do not smoke, you may

be surprised at the number. Even these few people might be

passive smokers without realising it.

Tobacco is a wonderful commodity to tax. It's almost like

a tax on our daily bread. In tax revenue alone, the government

of collects enough from smokers to pay for its entire

educational facilities. So while the authorities point out ever

so carefully that smoking may be harmful, it doesn't do to shout

too loudly about it.

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The advertising of tobacco is one of the problems. We are

never shown pictures of real smokers coughing up their lings

early in the morning. That would never do. The advertisements

st

it is manly to smoke, even positively healthy! Smoking is

associated with the great open air life, with beautiful girls,

true love and togetherness.

Of course tobacco can help government to raise money.

However, while money is eagerly collected in vast sums with one

hand, it is paid out in increasingly vaster sums with the other.

Enormous amounts are spent on cancer research and on efforts

to cure people suffering from the disease. Countless valuable

lives are lost. In the long run, there is no doubt that everybody

would be much better off if smoking were banned altogether.

Smoking can provide constant consolation. When I feel

seem

everything and cigarette a get just I nervous, or worried

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to get right. After a day's hard work, the thing I want to do

most is smoking. It can be even better with a cup of coffee.

It's so enjoyable and relaxing that it relieves stresses of

every day life. So why bother to ban it and take the pleasure

Now match each of the people (1 to 5) to the appropriate

61. Hadley C

65. Bernice A

A［］

［B］ Tobacco is an important source of income to the

C［］

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［D］

money.［E］ The advertisement for it is dishonest and harmful.

［F］

［G］ It's doubtful whether there is link between smoking

and cancer.

Section Ⅳ Writing (40 minutes)You should write

your responses to both parts on ANSWER

You go to the railway station to meet one of your friends,

and the train has not arrived yet, so you have to leave him a

note on the clipboard, from which he will learn how to find

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Read the following material and write a short essay of about

150 words under the title “Should Men Be Forced by Law to Do

Half the Housework?”The Austrian parliament will shortly be

considering a draft

law designed to compensate women after a divorce if their former

husbands never helped them with the week the

German Green Party went even further,

demanding a new law to make couples share the chores

Bild said a third of German women did all the housework on their

Academics here in Britain talked of reversing what they

called the“Allerednic effect”—that's “Cinderella”

—in which a prince marries a princess and turns her

So is it time for men to clean up their act? Or should the

Joining Laurence Zavriew for the Europewide debate are from

Netherlands

the in and Blasio, di Carlo journalist Italian the

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Kerstin Schweighoefer, correspondent of the German

Interlocutor: Good morning. My and this is my

. She/He i

Would you please tell me your candidate numbers, so I can

check them, please? First of all, I'd like to know something

about you. So, I'm going to ask you some questions. ea

Interlocutor: I'd like you to have a dialogue based on the

information given below. Try to imagine the situation as if you

场景(Situation): A male meets a girl in a party. The girl

stands there alone for a short period. And the man comes up to

her and says hello and intro

Interlocutor: Have you ever taken part in some

you

do mean, I held? have friends your parties or organizations

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belong to any organization? Try to give us a description.

Remember you are given only 4 minutes.

试题详解Test One