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1、PETS第五级全真模拟试卷（3）Section Use of English( 15 minutes)Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word.Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.The more gadgets there are, the (31) _ things seem to get. said Honore Ervin, co-author of The Etiquette Girls: Things You Need
2、to Be Told. Just because it s there ( 32 ) _ your disposal, doesn t mean you have to use it 24/7. A recent (33)_ by market research company Synovate showed that 70 percent of 1,000 respondents (34) _ the poorest etiquette in cell phone users over other devices. The worst habit? Loud phone conversati
3、ons in public places, or cell yell, ( 35 ) _ to 72 percent of the Americans polled.People use (36)_anywhere and everywhere, Ervin said. At the movies-turn (37)_ your cell phone. I don t want to pay $10 to be sitting next to some guy chitchatting to his girlfriend (38) _ his cell phone. This rudeness
4、 has deteriorated public spaces, according to Lew Friedland, a communication professor (39) _ the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He (40) _ the lack of manners a kind of unconscious rudeness, (41)_ many people are not (42) _ of what they re doing or the others around them.I think it s really notice
5、able in any plane, train or bus (43) _ you re subjected against your will (44) _ someone else s conversation, he said. You can listen to intimate details of their uncle s illness, problems with their lovers and (45) _ they re having for sinner. It (46) _ what was a public common space and starts to
6、(47) _ it up into small private space. A short time ago, if cell phone users (48) _ politely asked to talk quietly, they would (49) _with chagrin, he said. Now more and more people are essentially treating you like you don t understand that loud cell phone use is (50) _ in public. Section Reading Co
7、mprehension(50 minutes)Part A：Read the following texts and answer the questions which accompany them by choosing A, B, C or D. Mark your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Text 1As long as her parents can remember, 13-year-old Katie Hart has been talking about going to college. Her mother, Tally, a financial
8、-aid officer at a California University, knows all too well the daunting thing of paying for a college education. Last year the average yearly tuition at a private, four-year school climbed 5.5 percent to more than $17,000. The Harts have started saving, and figure they can afford a public universit
9、y without a problem. But what if Katie applies to Princeton (shes threatening), where one years tuition, room and boardalmost $ 34, 000 in 2007-will cost more than some luxury cars? Even a number cruncher like Tally admits it s a little scary, especially since shell retire and Katie will go to colle
10、ge at around the same time.Paying for college has always been a hard endeavor. The good news: last year students collected $ 74 billion in financial aid, the most ever. Most families pay less than full freight. Sixty percent of public-university students and three quarters of those at private colleg
11、es receive some form of financial aid-mostly, these days, in the form of loans. But those numbers are not as encouraging as they appear for lower-income families, because schools are changing their formulas for distributing aid. Eager to boost their magazine rankings, which are based in part on the
12、test scores of entering freshmen, they re throwing more aid at smarter kids-whether they need it or not.The best way to prepare is to start saving early. A new law passed last year makes that easier for some families. So-called 529 plans allow parents to sock away funds in federal-tax-free-investmen
13、t accounts, as long as the money is used for qualified education expenses like tuition, room and board. The plans aren t for everyone. For tax reasons, some lower and middle income families may be better off choosing other investments. But saving is vital. When s the best time to start? Sometime, sa
14、ys Jack Joyoe of the College Board, between the maternity ward and middle school. Aid packages usually come in some combination of grants, loans and jobs. These days 60 percent of all aid comes in the form of low-interest loans. All students are eligible for unsubsidized federal Stafford loans, whic
15、h let them defer interest payments until after graduation. Students who can demonstrate need can also qualify for federal Perkins loans or subsidized Staffords, where the government pays the interest during school. Fortunately, this is a borrower s market. Interest rates are at their lowest level in
16、 the history of student loans, says Mark Kantrowitz, publisher of Finaid. Kantrowitz expects rates to fall even further when they re reviewed this summer.Traditional scholarships, academic or athletic, are still a part of many families planning. Mack Reiter, a 17-year-old national wrestling champion,
