2016年公共英語五級考前預測卷彙總

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　　2016年公共英語五級考試(PETS-5)考前預測試卷(1)

Section II Use of English

(15 minutes)

Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable e your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

The most obvious purpose of advertising is to inform the consumer of available products or services. The second(31)__________ is to sell the product. The second purpose might be more important to the manufacturers than the(32) __________The manufacturers go beyond only telling consumers about their products. They also try to per-suade customers to buy the (33) __________by creating a desire (34) __________it. Because of advertisement, con-sumers think that they want something that they do not need. After buying something, the purchaser cannot alwaysexplain why it was (35) __________ Even (36) __________the purchaser probably does not know why he or she bought something, the manufacturers(37) __________. Manufacturers have analyzed the business of (38) __________ and buying. They know all the differ-ent motives that influence a consumer' s purchase--some rational and (39) __________ emotional. Furthermore, they take advantage of this (40) __________

Why (41) __________ so many products displayed at the checkout counters in grocery stores? The store manage-ment has some good (42) __________. By the time the customer is (43) __________to pay for a purchase, he or shehas already made rational, thought-out decisions (44) __________ what he or she needs and wants to buy. The(45) __________ __ feels that he or she has done a good job of choosing the items. The shopper is especially vulnerableat this point. The (46) __________ of candy, chewing gum, and magazines are very attractive. They persuade thepurchaser to buy something for emotional, not (47) __________motives. For example, the customer neither needs norplans to buy candy, but while the customer is standing, waiting to pay money, he or she may suddenly decide to buy(48) __________This is exactly (49) __________the store and the manufacturer hope that the customer will(50) __________. The customer follows his or her plan.

　　2016年公共英語五級考試(PETS-5)考前預測試卷(2)

Section II Use of English

(15 minutes)

Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable e your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

"Down-to-earth" means someone or something that is honest, realistic and easy to deal with. It is a pleasure tofind (31)__________who is down-to-earth. A person who is down-to-earth is easy to talk (32) __________and acceptsother people as equals. A down-to-earth person is just the (33) __________of someone who acts important or -to-earth persons may be (34) __________members of society, of course. But they do not let their impor-tance "(35) __________to their heads". They do not consider themselves to be better persons than (36) __________ofless importance. Someone who is filled with his own importance and pride, (37) __________ without cause, is said tohave "his nose in the air". There is (38) __________way a person with his nose in the air can be down-to-earth.

Americans (39) __________another expression that means almost the same as "down-to-earth". The expressionis "both-feet-on-the-ground". Someone (40) __________ both-feet-on-the-ground is a person with a good understand-ing (41) __________ reality. He has what is called "common sense, " he may have dreams, (42) __________ he doesnot allow them to block his knowledge of (43) __________is real.

The opposite kind of (44) __________is one who has his "head-in-the-clouds". A man with his head-in-the-clouds is a dreamer (45) __________mind is not in the real world.

(46) __________, such a dreamer can be brought back to earth. Sharp words from teacher can usually(47) __________a day-dreaming student down-to-earth.

Usually, the person who is down-to-earth is very (48) __________to have both feet on the ground.(49)we have both our feet on the ground, when we are down-to-earth, we act honestly and openly(50) __________others. Our lives are like the ground below us, solid and strong.

　　2016年公共英語五級考試(PETS-5)考前預測試卷(3)

Section II Use of English

(15 minutes)

Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable e your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Psychologists take contrastive views of how external rewards, from (31) __ praise to cold cash, affect motivation and creativity. Behaviorists, ( 32 ) __________research the relation ( 33 ) __________actions and their conse-quences argue thaT rewards can improve performance at work and school. Cognitive researchers, who study various aspects of mental life, maintain (34) __________rewards often destroy creativity ( 35 ) __________ encouraging depend-ence (36) __________approval and gifts from others.

The latter view has gained many supporters, especially (37) __________educators. But the careful use of small monetary rewards sparks (38) __________in grade-school children, suggesting (39) __________properly presented in-ducements indeed aid inventiveness, (40) __________to a study in the June Journal of Personality and Social Psychol-ogy.

"If kids know they're working for a (41) __________and can focus (42) __________ a relatively challenging task,they show the most creativity", says Robert Eisenberger of the University of Delaware in Newark. "But it's easy tokill creativity by giving rewards for (43) __________ performance or creating too (44) __________anticipation for re-wards. "A teacher (45) __________ continually draws attention to rewards or who hands (46)high grades for

ordinary achievement ends up (47)__________discouraged students, Eisenherger holds. (48) __________an example of the latter point, he notes growing efforts at major universities to tighten grading standards and restore failing(49) __________In earlier grades, the use of so-called token economies, in (50) __________students handle challenging problems and receive performance-based points toward valued rewards, shows promise in raising effort and creativity, the Del-aware psychologist claims.

　　2016年公共英語五級考試(PETS-5)考前預測試卷(4)

Section Ⅱ Use of English

( 15 minutes)

Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable e 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,______ (31) to the first serious investigation into the way in which writing technique can dramatically affect edu-cational achievement.

The survey of 643 children and adults, ranking from pre-school to 40-plus, also suggests ______(32) pen-holding techniques have detedorated sharply over one generation, with teachers now paying far ______( 33 ) atten-tion to correct pen grip and handwriting style.

Stephanie Thomas, a learning support teacher______ (34) findings have been published, was inspired to in-vestigate this area ______(35) he noticed that those students who had the most trouble with spelling______ (36) had a poor pen grip. While Mr. Thomas could not establish a significant statistical link______ (37) pen-holding style and accuracy in spelling, he______ (38) find huge differences in technique be-tween the young children and the mature adults, and a def'mite ______(39) between near-point gripping and slow, illegible writing.

People who______ (40) their pens at the writing point also show other characteristics______ (41) inhibit learning, ______(42) as poor posture, leaning too ______(43) to the desk, using four fingers to grip the pen ______(44) than three, and clumsy positioning of the thumb (which can obscure ______(45) is being written).

Mr. Thomas believes that the ______(46) between elder and younger writers is ______( 47 ) too dramatic to be accounted for simply by the possibility that people get better at writing as they grow ______(48) . He attrib-utes it to a failure to teach the most effective methods, pointing out that the differences between ______(49) groups coincides with the abandonment of formal handwriting instruction in classrooms in the sixties. "The 30-year-old showed a huge diversity of grips,______ (50)the over 40s group all had a uniform ' tripod' grip. "

　　2016年公共英語五級考試(PETS-5)考前預測試卷(5)

Section Ⅱ Use of English

(15 minutes)

Read the following text and fill each of the numbered spaces with ONE suitable e your answers on ANSWER SHEET 1.

Recent surveys show that Japanese youth have become a "Me Generation" that rejects traditional values.

"Around 1980 many Japanese, (31)______ young people abandoned the values of economic success and began (32)______ for new sets of values to(33) ______ them happiness, " writes sociologist Yasuhiro in Comparative Civilizations Review. Japanese youth are placing more importance on the individual' s pursuit of

(34) ______ and less on the values of work, family, and society.

Japanese students seem to be losing patience with work, (35)______ their counterparts in the United States and Korea. In a 1993(36) ______ of college students in the three countries, only 10% of the Japanese regarded (37) ______ as a primary value compared with 47% of Korean students and 27% of American students. A greater

(38)_ of Japanese aged 18 -24 also preferred easy jobs(39)______heavy responsibility.

The younger Japanese are showing less concern for family values as they pursue an inner word of private satisfaction. Data collected(40)______ the Japanese government in i993 shows that only 23% of Japanese youth are thinking about supporting their aged parents, in contrast(41 )______63% of young Americans. It appears that many younger-generation Japanese are (42)______ both respect for their parents (43)______a sense of responsibility to the family. Author Yoshizaki attributes the change (44)______ Japanese parents' over-indulgence of their children, material affluence, and growing (45) ______ for private matters.

The shift (46)______ individualism among Japanese is most pronounced among(47)______ very young. According to 1991 data (48) ______ the Bunka Center of Japan, 50% of Japanese youth aged 16 -19 can be labeled "self-centered" compared with 33% among (49)______ aged 25-29. To earn the self-centered label, the young people responded positively to (50) ______ ideas as "I would like to make decisions without considering traditional values" and "I don' t want to do anything I can' t enjoy doing. "