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公共英语PETS三级完型填空试题训练三 （三） Sometimes it is better not to know the 1 of a country that you are visiting 2 it is to know just a little of it, The 3 is this: the natives of your 4 country will often rush to 5 you if you seem completely lost and helpless. But they will usually misunderstand your small 6 to speak their language. They will think that you know 7 more than you do. For example, I once asked three people 8 carefully memorized phrasebook Spanish how to get to a bus station in Mexico City. 9 each of them poured out a flood of 10 Spanish. The result was 11 I didn’t understand a word and 12 around for an hour before I found the station. 13 I had missed the bus. The next time I encountered a(n) 14 like this in another city, I was a lot 15 , so I acted dumbly. Trying to look very pitiful, I 16 a stranger and asked simply, “Bus station?” He 17 told me how to get there; he showed me to the 18 walking three blocks out of his 19 to help a poor, dumb and helpless 20 . 1. A. conventions B. customs C. people D. language 答案：D 解析：A、B、C三个都是复数，而根据后面这个词的代词为it知：这里需要填单数，那么只有D项可以。另外，根据下文也可以知道这里要填language. 2. A. if B. unless C. than D. when 答案： C 解析：根据前面的信号词better，知这里该填than. 3. A. cause B. reason C. explanation D. account 答案： B 解析：native 当地人； 后面一句是解释的原因，所以这里选reason. 4. A. host B. home C. foreign D. visiting 答案： A 解析：host东道主，东道国； 5. A. help B. show C. tell D. direct 答案： A 解析：显然用help，这句话说：如果你看起来完全迷路了而且很无助，那么你所到国家的当地人会跑来帮助你。 6. A. intentions B. attempts C. gestures D. motions 答案： B 解析：intention 企图，意图； attempt 企图，试图； gesture 姿势，手势； motion 运动，手势，提议； misunderstanding 误解； C、D显然意思不对；关键A、B两项选哪个？后面一定接of ，形式为：intention of doing sth； 而attempt后接不定式，形式为：attempt to do sth,故选用B项正确。 7. A. a little B. no C. a lot D. many 答案： C 解析：注意横线后面的more than you d