公共英语考试在18号就要开考了，在最后的复习时间里，小编为大家准备了2016年pets1阅读部分的试题，大家可以练练看哦。

　　第三部分阅读

　　第一节短文理解

　　阅读下面短文，从A.(Right)、B.(Wrong)、C.(Doesn’t say)三个判断中选择一个正确选项，并在答题卡上将该项涂黑。

　　Every Tuesday, Carina goes to work in a bank. She knows all her customers (顾客)very well, because they are her classmates. In fact, Carina and her customers are all 10 years old.

　　Carina' s bank is in a school in Chicago. The bank is a branch(分支) of a national(国家的)bank, but the "children run it themselves. It is open for 30 minutes a week. Every Tuesday morning, Carina opens the bank. Her classmates put their money in or take their money out. The bank pays interest to them.

　　The idea for a school bank came from their teacher, Mr. Harry Bassett. Mr. Bassett took his idea to the national bank. The bank agreed to his plan. "We want to give the children a chance to learn about money," said Mr. Bassett. "We are training them to look after their money carefully. "

　　The next plan for the school bank is a credit card. "Many people in the USA don' t use credit cards very well," said Mr. Bassett. "our school bank will give the pupils some practice in using credit cards. " Pupils will be able to buy school meals and books with the credit cards.

　　56. The school bank opens once a week.

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Doesn' t say

　　57. Mr. Bassett is a bank cashier.

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Doesn' t say

　　58. Carina suggested opening the school bank.

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Doesn' t say

　　59. The pupils are trained to take care of their money.

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Doesn' t say

　　60. The pupils' parents are happy with the bank' s credit card plan.

　　A. Right

　　B. Wrong

　　C. Doesn' t say

　　第二节短文理解2

　　阅读下列短文，从A.、B.、C.三个选项中选择一个正确答案，并在答题卡上将该项

　　涂黑。

　　请根据下面短文回答第61至65题：

　　A businessman bought some goods at a market in the morning and set out at once for home with all his bags, for he wished to be in his own house before dark.

　　At noon he rested in a town. When he wanted to go on, the stable-boy (马童) brought his horse, saying :

　　"A nail(钉子) is wanting, sir, in the shoe of the horse's left front foot. "

　　"Let it be wanting," answered the businessman, "the shoe will stay on for ten kilometers. "

　　In the afternoon he arrived at a hotel. The stable-boy came to him again and said, "Sir, a shoe is wanting from your horse' s left front foot. Shall we get a new one?"

　　"Let it still be wanting," said the businessman, "the horse will be all right for a few kilome-ters more. "

　　So he rode on, but soon the horse began to limp. It had not limped for long when it fell down and broke its leg. The businessman had to leave the horse and take all the bags on his back, and go home on foot.

　　"That bad nail," he said to himself, "has made all this trouble. "

　　61. Where did the story take place?

　　A. At a market.

　　B. At the businessman' s house.

　　C. On the businessman' s way home.

　　62. What was found to be lost when the businessman rested in a town?

　　A. A bag.

　　B. A nail.

　　C. A shoe.

　　63. What does "limp" mean in "...the horse began to limp. "?

　　A. Jump high.

　　B. Run really fast.

　　C. Have trouble walking.

　　64. Whose leg was broken?

　　A. The horse' s.

　　B. The stable-boy' s.

　　C. The businessman' s.

　　65. The story tells us that

　　A. money cannot buy everything

　　B. small things can make great trouble

　　C. nothing is impossible if you work hard