PETS5模拟考试真题-4

PETS5模拟考试真题-4
Part A
1.I’ve never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you. The world is our classroom and our home,
a 41-foot sailing boat, takes us there.
2.my husband and I dreamed of sailing around the world before our daughters were even born.
3.as Cathy zoomed through the entire year’s course in a matter of two months, we realize that a prepackaged school was not what she ne eded. Cathy’s gifted mind needed to be challenged, excited, sent into orbit. We devised our own curriculum for the rest of the year.
4.we also have limited room for school books and so those we have must be chosen carefully. Perhaps the thing we miss the most when traveling is not always having access to a library.
We hope to upgrade our notebook computer to one with CD-ROM soon. Imagine having resources like encyclopedias and atlases all in a small enough format to fit on the boat.
5.choosing courses of study for Cathy was great fun. We looked at where we would be sailing to during the school year, or where we would be stopping to work, and all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves, for example, while cruising down the East Coast to Florida, we chose space exploration for a unit of study. Our studies included both fictional and non-fictional reading, experiments and writing assignment. The final was watching a shuttle launch and visiting the Kennedy Space Center museums.
6.to learn about the world around us---we do miss on a few
things that
most home-schooled children are able to take advantage of and which would perhaps make our academic life easier.
7.the wonderful opportunities to learn about the world around us.
8./9 all sorts of topics of interest presented themselves. choosing courses of study was great fun---Florida—not unsystematic.
9.I’ve never believed that the only way to get an education is to sit at a desk with four walls around you--- the advantages of our floating school.
Part B
Passage 1
Eccentric a. 古怪的；反常的eccentricity
1.D r. David weeks, he has done several major studies into eccentricity and
thinks that around one in 10,000 people are eccentric.
2.t hey share some common traits. One link is that they are very happy people and their curiosity is the major aspect of that happiness
3.t hey get very obsessed with subjects and topics they are interested in---Dr. Weeks claims that “eccentric” people have produced some of history’s major ideas. From time to time, they may seem to be sbsurd or even silly, but they have some very important ideas, like discovering a major antibiotic. He believes that there is a link between eccentricity and genius.
A high proportion of geniuses behave in an unusual way and so appear eccentric to others, geniuses and eccentrics are linked in other ways. They share a high IQ.---he says that, over a lifetime, they have more
relationships than the average person. But they are always very friendly with their previous partners.---and are great eccentrics a dying breed? Dr. Weeks believes that eccentricity may increase as people all over the world have more leisure time. He says that in societies where there is more money and free time and where people have more power to do what they want, the number of eccentrics increases.
Passage 2
2. Anna, at home, her generation, kids her age
3. D：well, it’s true that computers are much, much more convenient. But it’s hard for me to learn programs on computers.---I know what you mean. You know, I have been thinking that maybe we should take an evening class.
What do you think?----wom I’m really glad to hear you say that because I’v thought a lot about taking a class.
(at home after the first computer class) Look at you. You’re really working hard at that computer!---nothing could tear me away. If it weren’t for our class, I’d be in a bind right now trying to figure out what to do. But I am doing OK. The class really help.
Passage 3
1.I’d like to ask you some question about the new official standard weight that you purchased.—how is the standard weight used?—well, the people in our department use it to check the scales all over the country. As the department of weights and measures, we are a government agency. It’s our responsibility to see that all the scales measure a kilogram accurately so this is the way we use to
adjust the scales.
2.w e have an old standard weight that we used to use. It had to be replaced because it was imprecise. You see it was made of
poor quality metal that was too porous. It absorbed too much moisture.
3.45,000 dollars? For one kilogram weight? That’s more expensive than gold. Is it really worth that much?
4.I’m sure it is. Industries depend on our government agency to monitor the accuracy of scales so that when they buy and sell their products there is one standard. Think of the drug industry, for example, those companies rely on high accuracy scales to manufacture and package medicine.
Part C
1.b oth hands
2.M exico
3.s incerity and respect
4.t he UK
5.l ook away
6.f irst name
7.I taly, the US and Brazil
8.R ussia, Germany and France
9.b usiness associates
10.culture differences
11.Bob: when I first went to Italy I thought it was OK to use everyone’s first name so as to seem friendly. And I later find that in business you shouldn’t use some one’s first name unless you are invited to, oh, and you should always use their title as well.
12.I found out that you have to treat business card with respect. What you’ve got to do is hold them with both hands and then read them very carefully.
13.In China I was trying to make a
joke when I pretended to criticize my business associate for
being late for a meeting.---in Mexico I have to admit I found it a bit strange when business associates there touched me on the arm and shoulder. Well, I tried to move away and of course, they thought I was being very ,very unfriendly. Apparently, it’s quite usual there for men to touch each other in, you know, in a friendly way.
14.the first time I went to Korea I thought it was polite not to look some one in the eye to much. The Koreans I met seemed to be staring at me when I spoke, which seemed, you know, a bit odd at first. In Korea, eye contact conveys sincerity and it shows you’re paying attention to the speaker.
---oh it seems strange because you British don’t look at each other so
much when you’re talking to each other.
I mean, you look away, you know, most of the time.。