PETS3_2010.3_真题试卷PETS3_2010.3_真题试卷.pdf

PETS 全国英语等级考试网（www.PETS12345.com ）鼎力帮助您顺利通过全国英语等级考试！ 2010 年 3 月 PETS3 笔试真题 PUBLIC ENGLISH TEST SYSTEM(PETS) LEVEL 3 SECTION I Listening Comprehension ( 25 minutes) 1～25 略 SECTION II Use of English ( 15 minutes) Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word or phrase for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C, or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. Text Even today in the modem，developed world，surveys show that parents still prefer to have a boy rather than a girl ．One longstanding reason why boys have been -26- as a greater blessing has been that they are -27- to become better economic providers -28- their parents’old age ．Yet it is time for parents to -29- again ．Girls may now be a better investment ． Girls get better -30- at school than boys ，and in most developed countries more women than men go to -31- ．Women will thus be better -32- for the new jobs of the 21st century ，in which brains -33- a lot more than physical strength ．In Britain far more women than men are now -34- to become doctors ．And women are more -35- to provide sound advice on investing their parents’nest egg ．Surveys show that women consistently -36- higher financial returns than men do ． -37- ，the increase in female employment in the rich world has been the main -38- force of growth in the past couple of decades ．Those women have -39- more to global GDP growth than have either new technology or the new giants ，China and India ．Add the -40- of housework and child-rearing ，and women probably account -41- just over half of the world output ．It is -42- that women still get paid less and few -43- it to the top of companies ，but