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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， -44- prej- udice fades over coming years，women will have great scope to -45- their productivity and incomes． 26．[A]seen [B]observed [C]watched [D]n