全国公共英语等级考试五级真题pets5.docx

1、全国公共英语等级考试五级真题pets5全国公共英语等级考试(PETS)五级真题 If you are a member of the library, you may borrow CALL discs in French, German, Italian, Spanish and Russian as well as English. By the way, CALL stands for computer aided language learning: C A double L, CALL, for short. You may also borrow a range of word p

2、rocessing and desktop publishing packages. All disks are, of course, strictly for use in the micro-lab only. If you wish to print anything you should use one of the five machines around the outside of the room. Four are connected to dot matrix printers, one is connected to the laser printer. If you

3、want a top quality printout from the laser printer, come and see myself or any of the library staff. Dot-matrix printouts are free but there is a charge for using the laser printer.There is always a queue to get to the terminals towards the end of term. Come in and get to know how to use the compute

4、rs early in the term and use them regularly, rather than just before exams and essay deadlines, in order to avoid delay or disappointment. Training sessions are held on a regular basis, on the first and third Thursday of each month, and are free to full-time students of the college. See you there. N

5、ow, any questions?You now have 30 seconds to check your answers to Questions 1 - 3.Part CYou will hear a talk given by a university lecturer. As you listen, you must answer Questions 1 -10 by writing NO MORE THAN THREE words in the space provided on the right. You will hear the talk TWICE.You now ha

6、ve 60 seconds to read Questions 1 to 10.1. Whats the average annual increase of foreign student population in the period between 1985 and 1990 in terms of percentage?2. Which part of the world contributed to an increase between 94/95 and 95/96?3. When will the speaker talk about the economic and pol

7、itical changes?4. What will the speaker discuss first?5. Where do the three largest groups of students come from?6. Whats the number of students from Malaysia?7. Which is the most popular field of study?8. Whats the percentage of students in business and management?9. In terms of academic levels, in

8、 which level do we find the smallest number?10. In summary, what did the speaker talk about?TapescriptFor those of you who are either already studying in the United States or plan to one day, it might be interesting to know something about the foreign student population in the United States. For the

9、 academic year 1995/96 there was a total of approximately 344,000 foreign students studying in the United States. This figure of 344,000 may seem like a very large number until you compare it with the total population of 241,000,000. The foreign student population has been growing for a number of ye

10、ars and is still growing, but the rate of increase has dropped sharply during the 1990s. During the 1980s, the population grew quite rapidly. For example, between 1985 and 1990, the average yearly increase was 12.5%. However, the picture in the 1990s is quite different. The rate of increase has decl

11、ined quite noticeably. In fact, the rate of increase between 1994/95 and 1995/96 was only .5%, or one-half of one percent. Although the overall rate of increase has dropped to only .5%, the number of students from some parts of the world is increasing while the number of students from other areas is

12、 decreasing. For example, during this same time period, that is between the academic years 94/95 and 95/96, there was a decrease in the number of students from the Middle East, while the number of students from South and East Asia increased. These changes in the number of students coming from differ

13、ent parts of the world no doubt reflected changing economic and political situations. Im sure you are aware of many of these changes, and perhaps we can discuss them at our next meeting. For today lets confine our talk to first, a discussion of the origin of these students, or, in other words, where

14、 they come from; second, the kinds of studies they pursue; and, finally, the academic levels they are found in. If we have a little time left, we might quickly discuss in which geographic areas most of them go to school.Lets discuss the origins of the foreign student population in the United States

15、for the academic year 1995/96. Lets discuss it in order from those areas sending the most students to those areas sending the fewest students. If we look at the figures provided by the annual census of foreign students in the United States for the year 1995/96, we see that most of the foreign studen

16、ts studying in the United States during this year were from South and East Asia. This is a rather large geographical area which includes such countries as China, Korea, Pakistan, India, Malaysia, and Indonesia. The total number of students from this area, South and East Asia was 156,830. In other wo

17、rds, roughly 2 out of every 5 foreign students come from South and East Asia. Almost 24,000 of this total were from China. Malaysia was close behind with just a little over 23,000 students. The next largest number of students came from the Middle East. The number of students from the Middle East cam

18、e to about one-third the number from South and East Asia. The fourth largest number came from South America. Next came Europe, Africa, North America, and Oceania. Lets recapitulate what weve said. The largest number of students studying in the United States during the academic year 1995/96 were from

19、 South and East Asia, followed by the Middle East, South America, Europe, Africa, North America, and Oceania.What fields are these large numbers of foreign students studying in? It probably wont surprise you to learn that the largest number are in the field of engineering. In fact, 21.7% of the tota

20、l number are studying engineering. Business and management is close behind, however, with a total of 18.9%. The third most popular field was mathematics and computer sciences with 10.3%. As you can see, engineering with 21.7%, business and management with 18.9%, and mathematics and computer sciences

21、 with 10.3% comprise about one half of the total number of foreign students.Lets talk about which academic levels these students can be found in. Foreign students can be found studying at all levels of higher education. As you might expect, the greatest number of them are studying at the undergradua

22、te level ? approximately 158,000. The second largest group study at the graduate level and that number is just under 122,000. The rest study at junior colleges or in non-degree programs. It is at the graduate level that foreign students have the most impact. While foreign students comprise only 2.7%

23、 of the total U.S. student population, they account for 8.7% of all the graduate students studying at U. S. institutions. Let me give you those percentages again so you can get a better feel for the overall picture. Foreign students make up only 2.75 of the total U. S. student population, but they m

24、ake up 8.7% of the total graduate student population.Well, I see thats all the time we have today. Well have to leave discussions of the geographic areas these students study in until another time.Now you are going to hear the talk a second time.REPEAT THE TEXTYou now have 3 minutes to check your an

25、swers to Questions 1 - 10.That is the end of Part C. You now have 5 minutes to transfer all your answers from your test booklet to ANSWER SHEET 1.That is the end of Listening Comprehension.SECTION II: Use of EnglishRead the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable word.

26、Write your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.Children who grip their pens too close to the writing point are likely to be at a disadvantage in examinations, (1) _ to the first serious investigation into the way in which writing technique can dramatically affect educational achievement.The survey of 643 chil

27、dren and adults, aged from pre-school to 40-plus, also suggests (2) _ pen-holding techniques have deteriorated sharply over one generation, with teachers now paying far (3) _ attention to correct pen grip and handwriting style.Stephanie Thomas, a learning support teacher (4) _ findings have been pub

28、lished, was inspired to investigate this area (5) _ she noticed that those pupils who had the most trouble with spelling (6) _ had a poor pen grip. While Ms. Thomas could not establish a significant statistical link (7) _ pen-holding style and accuracy in spelling, she (8) _ find huge differences in

29、 technique between the young children and the mature adults, and a definite (9) _ between near-point gripping and slow, illegible writing.People who (10) _ their pens at the writing point also show other characteristics (11) _ inhibit learning, (12) _ as poor posture, leaning too (13) _ to the desk,

30、 using four fingers to grip the pen (14) _ than three, and clumsy positioning of the thumb (which can obscure (15) _ is being written.Ms. Thomas believes that the(16) _ between older and younger writers is (17) _ too dramatic to be accounted for simply by the possibility that people get better at wr

31、iting as they grow (18) _. She attributes it to a failure to teach the most effective methods, pointing out that the differences between (19) _ groups coincides with the abandonment of formal handwriting instruction in classrooms in the sixties. The 30-year-olds showed a huge range of grips, (20) _

32、the over 40s group all had a uniform tripod grip.SECTION III: Reading ComprehensionPart ARead 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 1In recent years, there has been a steady assault on salt from the doctors: salt is bad for you ? regardless of your health. Politicians also got on board. There is a direct relationship, US congressman Neal Smith noted, between the amount of sodium a pers