This was the first time that Chongqing the Listening Examination of Public English Test System II (PETS-2).
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—What a hot summer night! The temperature may be above 40 degree centigrade again.
—Why not get ________ cold beer in the air-conditioned room, watching the second season of The Voice of China? That must be great fun.
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假如你是英国的Mike，你的朋友李华打算到国外留学，他写信询问你什么样的中国学生最受国外高校青睐。请你根据下列要点给对方写一封回信：
1. 语言是道硬门槛；
2. 适应能力很重要；
3. 兴趣爱好被看重；
4. 要有社会责任感。
注意：1.词数100左右；
2.开头和结束语已为你写好，不计入总词数。
Dear Li Hua,
I’m glad to hear that you want to study abroad in your letter. _____________________________________
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Yours,
Mike
假定英语课上老师要求同桌之间交换修改作文，请您修改你同桌写的以下作文。文中共有10处语言错误，每句中最多有两处。每处错误仅涉及一个单词的增加、删除或修改。
增加：在缺词处加一个漏字符号（∧），并在其下面写出该加的词。
删除：把多余的词用斜钱（\）划掉。
修改：在错的词下划一横线，并在该词下面写出修改后的词。
注意：
1. 每处错误及其修改均仅限一词；
2．只允许修改10处，多者（从第11处起）不计分。
Nowadays Grade 3 students are general faced with a lot of pressure, which is rather common. To reduce it, the followed suggestions may help, first of all, know exactly what lead to your pressure, and then you can take measures to deal with it. Secondly, set up a goal what is not too high, in another words, don't put too much pressure on yourself. Thirdly, find a way to relax you occasionally, for example, you can listen to music, go swim or just simply go walking. Eventually, make friend with others, for example, your classmates, your teachers, your parents. They will understand you and come to your help when you are really in the trouble. In a word, never get yourself stuck in the pressure for “impossible is nothing”.
根据短文内容，从短文后的选项中选出能填入空白处的最佳选项。选项中有两项为多余选项。
1. If you are growing tomatoes in your backyard for sale you are producing for the market. You might sell some to your neighbor and some to the local manager of the supermarket. But in either case, you are producing for the market. 2. If people stop buying tomatoes, you will stop producing them.
If you take care of a sick person to earn money, you are producing for the market. If your father is a steel worker or a truck driver or a doctor or a grocer, he is producing goods or service for the market.
3. You may spend money in stores, supermarkets, gas stations and restaurants. Still you are buying from the market. When the local grocer hires you to drive the delivery truck, he is buying your labor in the labor market.
4. But for each person or business that is making and selling something, it is very concrete(具体的). If nobody buys your tomatoes, it won’t be long before you get the message. 5. _____ It is telling you that you are using energies and resources in doing something the market doesn’t want you to do.
A. The market may be something abstract.
B. The sellers are always smarter than buyers.
C. When you spend your income, you are buying things from the market.
D. The market is a concept.
E. One has to make his ends meet when shopping.
F. The market is telling you something.
G. Your efforts are being directed by the market.
Cheating is nothing new. But today, education and administrations are finding that examples of academic dishonesty on the part of students have become more frequent--- and are less likely to be punished---than in the
past. Cheating appears to have gained acceptance among good and poor students alike.
Why is student cheating on the rise? No one really knows. Some blame the trend on a general loosening of moral values among today’s youth. Others have attributed(归因于) increased cheating to the fact that today’s youth are far more practical than their idealistic ancestors. Whereas in the late sixties and early seventies, students were filled with visions about changing the word, today’s students feel great pressure to survive and succeed. In interviews with students at high schools and colleges around the country, both young men and women said that cheating had become easy. Some suggested they did it out of hate for teachers they didn’t respect. Others looked at it as a game. Only if they were caught, some said, would they feel guilty. “People are competitive,” said a second-year college student named Anna, from Chicago. “There is an potential fear. If you don’t do well, your life is going to be ruined. The pressure is not only from parents and friends but from yourself. To achieve. To succeed. It’s almost as though we have to surpass people to achieve our own goals.
Edward Wynne, editor of a magazine blames the rise in academic dishonesty in the schools. He claims that administrators and teachers have been too hesitant to take action. Dwight Huber, chairman of the English Department at Amarillo sees the matter differently, blaming the rise in cheating on the way students evaluated. “I would cheat if I felt I was being cheated,” Mr. Huber said. He feels that as long as teachers give short-answer tests rather than essay questions and rate students by the number of facts they can memorize rather than by how well they can combine and process information, students will try to beat the system. “ The concept of cheating is based on the false belief that the system is legal and there is something wrong with the individual who’re doing it,” he said, “That’s too easy an answer. We’ve got to start looking at the system.”
1.Educators are finding that students who cheat________.
A. have poor academic records
B. use the information in late years
C. can be academically weak or strong
D. are more likely to be punished than before
2.Which of the following statements reflects the information in the passage?
A. The pressure students faced with is partly the reason causing the student cheating.
B. Only the educational system and administrators are to blame for the rise in the cheating.
C. The 1960s vision of changing the world helped students never make mistakes.
D. Punishment for cheaters has always been severe in this country.
3.The phrase “the individuals” in Line 8, Para 3 refers to _________.
A. students who practice cheating
B. parents who put pressure on their children.
C. school administrators who approve of short-answer tests.
D. teachers who are too hesitant to take actions against cheating.
4.The author probably would agree with the point of view that _________.
A. students who cheat should be driven out of school
B. parents alone must take responsibility for the rise in student cheating
C. the educational system is sound, and students must follow every rule
D. the educational system in this country would benefit from a thorough evaluation
