2020年全国英语等级考试PETS3级阅读理解模拟试题(2)

1、2020 年全国英语等级考试 PETS3 级阅读理解模拟试题(2)Section Reading Comprehension(40 minutes)Part ADirections ：Read the following three texts. Answer the questions oneach text by choosing A, B, C or D. Markyour answers onANSWER SHEETl.Text 1It was fifteen past nine as Marie hurried into the officebuilding where she wa

2、s going to work.Her bus had inched along through heavy morning traffic,making her a few minutes late for her veryfirst job. She decided to start out half an hour earlierthe next day.Once inside the lobby, she had to stand at the elevatorsand wait several minutes before shecould get on one going to t

3、he sixth floor. When shefinally reached the office marked Smith Enter-prises , she knocked at the door nervously and waited.There was no reply. She tapped on the dooragain, but still there was no answer. From inside thenext office, she could hear the sound ofvoices, so she opened the door and went i

4、n.Although she was sure it was the same office she had beenin two weeks before when she hadthe interview with Mr. Smith, it looked quite differentnow. In fact, it hardly looked like an officeat all. The employees were just standing around chattingand smoking. In the front of the room,somebody must h

5、ave just told a good joke, she thought,because there was a loud burst of laughter asshe came in. For a moment she had thought they werelaughing at her.Then one of the men looked at his watch, clapped hishands and said something to the others.Quickly they all wentto their desks and, in a matter of se

6、conds, everyone was hardat work. No one paid any attention to Marie. Finally she wentup to the man who was sitting at the desk nearest to the doorand explained that this was her first day in the office.Hardly looking up from his work, he told her to have a seatand wait for Mr. Smith, who would arriv

7、e at any moment. ThenMarie realized that the days work in the office began justbefore Mr. Smith arrived. Later she found out that he livedin Connecticut and came into Manhattan on the same trainevery morning, arriving in the office at 9 ：35,so that hisstaff knew exactly when to start working.46. Mar

8、ie felt nervous when she knocked at the doorbecause _ .A it was her first day in a new jobB she was a little bit late for workC she was afraid that she had gone to the wrong placeD there was no answer from inside the office47. Marie could hardly recognize the office she went intoas .A she had been t

9、here only onceB Mr. Smith was not in the officeC nobody was doing any workD the office had a new appearance48. The people in the office suddenly started workingbecause .A they saw a stranger in the officeB their morning break was endedC no one wanted to talk to MarieD the boss was about to arrive49. We can infer from the text that the employees of theenterprise . .A would start their work by listening to a jokeB were cold to newcomersC were always punctual for workD lacked de