英语等级考试《PETS二级》试题（网友回忆版）十一

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第一节　听下面5段对话。每段对话后有一个小题，从题中所给的A、B、C三个选项中选出最佳选项，并标在试卷的相应位置。听完每段对话后，你都有10秒钟的时间来回答有关小题和阅读下一小题。每段对话仅读一遍。

One Christmas Eve, I kissed my family goodbye and went to spend the night in the hospital where I worked in its emergency department (急诊部).It was a (36)______ job.
At 9 pm, a man was brought in.He was having a heart attack and was (37)______ I did my best to help him.Before I left in the morning, I stopped by to see (38)______ he was doing.He (39)______ the night and was sleeping.
Emergency doctors don’t have (40)______ relationships with patients like other doctors.We get the (41)______ sick and the wounded.Often they’re frightened or angry at us, just (42)______ we’re there.They pass through our hands and out the door.We (43)______ see them again.I thought (44)______ about my heart patient.The (45)______ year, I got Christmas Eve duty (46)______ and I pulled myself off to work.At 9 pm sharp, the nurse told me (47)______ in the hall wanted to speak with me.
The man introduced himself as Mr.Lee and said, “You probably don’t (48)______ me, but last Christmas Eve you (49)______ my life.Thank you for the (50)______you gave me.” He and his wife handed me a small gift and left.
The following year my family was (51)______ that I could stay home on Christmas Eve.But I wanted to see if the Lees would (52)______.I came to work and kept an eye on the door.Once again, at (53)______ 9 pm, they appeared, carrying their new grandchild.
Mr.Lee, his family and I spent 13 Christmas Eves together.He died in 2005.The last time I saw him, he brought me a (54)______ imprinted (刻着) with a single word: friendship.Now my family and I ring it every Christmas Eve at 9 pm sharp to remember the man who didn’t (55)______.

阅读下列短文，从每题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项，并在答题卡1上将该项涂黑。
A　　Ian Johnstone missed his girlfriend so much that he flew back to Britain from Australia to ask her to marry him.The problem is she did the same in the opposite direction.He and Amy Dolby even managed to miss each other when they sat in the same airport waiting room in Singapore at the same time to wait for connecting flights.
After an 11,000-mile flight across the globe, Dolby was greeted by Johnstone’s astonished flatmate asking what she was doing there.“It was as though someone was playing a cruel joke on us,” she told The Times.
“He is the most romantic (浪漫的) person I have ever known.I think our problem is that we are both quite impulsive (易冲动的) people.We are always trying to surprise each other.”
Johnstone, a 27-year-old construction worker, had taken a year off to travel round Australia.But he was missing Dolby, a 26-year-old secretary, so much that he got a job on a Sydney building site and started saving for a surprise.He then flew home to Britain and went to her apartment armed with an engagement (订婚) ring and flowers.
“I really missed Amy and I’d been thinking about her all the time.I thought she was winding me up when she phoned me from Australia.” he said.Johnstone then asked Dolby to marry him on the phone.“I didn’t know whether to laugh or cry, but I accepted.” she said.

B　　I find it annoying and funny when I think about how we use protective or decorative wrappings (装饰品包装 ) in this country.
When I come home from the supermarket and start to unpack, I am always shocked at the layers of wrappings we cover our food with.
There is hardly anything we buy that doesn’t come in at least two wrappings, and then several of them are gathered by the shop assistant and put into a small bag. Then several of the small bags are grouped together and put into a big bag. If you have several big bags with small bags in them, they give you a cardboard box to put the packages-in-the-little-bags-in-the-big-bags in.
A lot of things we buy wouldn’t really need any protective wrapping at all. The skin of an orange protects an orange pretty well for most of its natural life, but we aren’t satisfied with what nature has given it. We wrap them in plastic or put them in a net bag, and then in a paper bag. The orange inside the skin, inside the plastic which is in the paper bag, must wonder where it is.
A box of biscuits often has waxed paper (蜡纸) next to the biscuits, a cardboard box holding the food and then a decorative wrapping around it.
A relative of ours bought a new sofa recently because she liked the fine leather (皮革) it was covered with. She liked it so much she didn’t want it to get dirty, so she bought a cloth cover to put over it.
We may never again see the leather she’s protecting.

C　　When word got out that Doug Beardsley was introducing a new course this spring— “Hockey (冰球) Literature and the Canadian Psyche (精神)”—the 40 seats in the class were quickly taken. ESPN offered to fly him to New York for a TV chat show, and e-mail arrived from hockey fans and researchers from as far away as Texas and China.
“They think they can learn something about us as a nation by learning about the game, about Canadian people. They’re fight.” says Beardsley.
Students in Beardsley’s class completed three research papers related to hockey. The reading list included famous works like The Divine Ryans by Wayne Johnston, The Good Body by Bill Gaston and Les Canadiells by Rick Salutin. They are the kind of books that get at the true meaning of being Canadian.
In Beardsley’s words, hockey shows the very nature of the polite Canadian. “I think that along with this peace-sharing, gentle image comes a need for mayhem (混乱). So we invent the game and—whammo! —you get on the ice and it serves as a way of letting out those energies that we don’t allow ourselves elsewhere.” says Beardsley, who added that the reason the game needs to be played in winter is our form of saying, “Look, even up here in the frozen north we can turn this around and make it work for us.”
“I’m talking about something larger than what happens on the ice and so is the course.”

D　　There are three kinds of memory: sense memory, working memory, and long-term memory. Think of them as three connected rooms in which you store different kinds of memories.
The first kind of memory is sense memory. Everything you are sensing right now is stored here. Perhaps you feel the sun on your face or smell the aroma (香味) of food. Sense memories last only a few seconds, but they connect one moment to the next. They give your life a flow, even though they are quickly forgotten.
You keep a few items (条目) in working memory. These are memories you need for what you are doing. Suppose you look up a friend’s telephone number in the phone book. You’ll probably remember the number for a little while. But if you get distracted (分神), you might quickly forget it. A memory usually stays in your working memory for just a few days at most. Working memory has another limit, too. Only a small number of items fit into it at any given time.
Memories you want to keep for a long time go into your long-term memory. They can stay with you all your life. In long-term memory, you can store a huge number of items. Can you re- member how to play your favorite game? Do you recall your first birthday party? If so, you are bringing up memories that are stored in your long-term memory. Sometimes, people have trouble finding a particular long-term memory. Have you ever struggled to remember a familiar name or fact? When this happens, people sometimes say the information is “on the tip of the tongue.”

E　　You can find a hotel in London very easily through listings in various free magazines. They often provide information on the hotel’s location (位置) and facilities (设施).
The Dove Hotel, Paddington, W2
Today’s traveler quite rightly expects the highest standards of quality, comfort and value. At the Dove it is impossible to be disappointed. Our hotel is located a few minutes’ walk from 5 underground lines and bus stops. The Heathrow Express goes directly to Heathrow in 15 minutes from Paddington Station.
Sunset Hotel, Bays water, W2
Located in a very popular place for shopping, the hotel is open 24 hours a day and all rooms have an suite facilities together with color TV and direct dial telephone. The hotel is opposite Whitley’s indoor shopping centre in Queensway, and only a few minutes’ walk from Kensington gardens-the former home of Princess Diana.
Queen’s Hotel, Earls Court, SW5
Queen’s Hotel is a small friendly hotel in the Kensington area. The hotel is close to the Earl’s Court Exhibition Halls 1 and 2 and the Olympia Exhibition Halls with their many shows including everything from business to boats! We are easy to reach from Heathrow Airport and only a few stops on the underground to central London attractions.
The George Hotel, Kings Cross, N1
The George Hotel has 35 rooms all with central heating, color TV, and tea and coffee-making facilities. The family-run hotel has clean comfortable rooms and many satisfied customers, who have experienced a “home away from home” feeling. The big English breakfast will keep you going until dinnertime!