PETS全国职称英语等级考试样题―(财经类)(3)公共英语等级考试

第二部分 完成句子 (25分)
　　根据短文内容完成句子，每个空格只能填一个单词。有的单词第一个字母已经给出，请将其余字母补全。
　　Once upon a time (not so very long ago, either!) industrial goods
　　were made to last forever. If you bought a car or a stove, it was a once-in-a-
　　life time investment. You paid good money for it, and you took good care of it.
　　Nowadays industry has persuaded us that products shouldn’t last a long time.
　　It’s cheaper to throw them away than it is to repair them. This has led
　　directly to the "throw away society" which is a tremendous (巨大的) waste of
　　the earth’s resources.
　　Just think of the cars that are traded daily, just because they are
　　out of style. Think of the expensive packaging material that is thrown away
　　every time a new object is bought. And we consumers (消费者) h德州治癫痫病最好的专科医院ave to pay for
　　that material! Our industrial society has turned us into spoiled children. This
　　wastefulness (消费) has got into the mess we are in now. when we have no
　　resources left, then we’ll start to take care of what we have. But why can’t we
　　act before this happens? Why can’t we go back to being a society in which the
　　prevention (防止) of waste is a virtue (美德)?
　　深圳癫痫病医院16. Not long ago, products were made to last to _______ as you take care of
　　them.
　　17. People don’t repair many things nowadays because they spend ______ to buy a
　　new one.
　　18. The shoppers have to pay not only for the goods themselves but also for the
　　______ paper.
　　19. According to the author’s idea, we should take care of what we have when
　　there are ________ resources left.
　　20. "The mess" (in the 5th Line of 2nd Paragraph) means _________.
　　第三部分 阅读理解 (80分)
　　Passage 1
　　One phase of the business cycle is the expansion phase. This phase
　　is a two-fold one, including recovery and prosperity. During the recovery
　　period there is ever - growing expansion of existing facilities and new
　　facilities for production