大学英语四级考试10Word格式.docx

1、Part I Writing （30 minutes）Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic: On Blind-date Show. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline given below:Outline: 1.目前电视相亲节目很流行; 2.出现这种现象的原因是; 3.我对此的看法.注意：此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。Part II

2、Reading Comprehension （Skimming and Scanning） （15 minutes） In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D. For questions 8-10，complete the sentences

3、 with the information given in the passage.What Makes a High School Great?For parents and students, high schools mean an often bewildering array of choices small schools within larger schools, specialized charter （特许） and magnet schools for things ranging from fashion design to computer programming,

4、 even public boarding schools for budding physicists or artists. On the plus side （从好的方面讲）, students get more adult attention and are less likely to be lost in the crowd. They can focus on subjects they really care about while still getting a grounding in the basics.But some educators think this bou

5、tique approach comes with a cost: the loss of a common experience that brings everyone together under one big roof. Maintaining quality is another major obstacle.Educators have been demanding reform for decades, and it has often seemed as if policy debates were the biggest obstacles to improvement.

6、Reformers in the 1980s wanted to make all students college-ready with a rigorous core curriculum. A decade later, school choice and testing were the big buzzwords （流行行话）, with some activists arguing that the entire public-school system should be dismantled. More recently, small schoolsfirst proposed

7、 decades agohave gained traction with funding from organizations like the Gates Foundation and the New Schools Venture Fund.With our Best High Schools list, we think kids at those schools have an edge, no matter what their economic background are. But many schools not on our list are also challengin

8、g students in innovative waysproof that the national experiment in high-school education is just beginning. Ask yourself, “What is high school really for?” Then look around at the options available to todays teenagers: Diverse and compelling answers abound. Here are some of them.Create Good Citizens

9、Everyone pays for public schools, so it makes sense that a primary mission should be teaching students to participate in the democratic process. A generation ago many schools required civics （公民学） courses; far fewer do so today. “There is so much emphasis on preparing kids to survive economically,”

10、says Constancia Warren, senior program officer and director of urban-high-school initiatives for the Carnegie Corp. of New York. “As a result, are we really preparing kids for citizenship?”In the past decade, many schools have started requiring community service. The Caesar Chavez High School for Pu

11、blic Policy pushes that idea all the way to Capitol Hill, which, fortunately, is within walking distance. In addition to a rigorous college-prep curriculum, students work as interns in Congress, at think tanks and advocacy groups in Washington. As seniors, they write a thesis on a public-policy issu

12、e and give a presentation before an audience that forces them to defend their stand.Chavez now has 500 students, the majority from low-income families. Theyre budding activists like 17-year-old Eusevia Valdez, who had no idea what public policy was when she enrolled in the charter school as a freshm

13、an. Four years later, she not only understands public policy, she lives it. She wrote her senior thesis on flaws in immigration laws, something she understands from personal experience. Her parents are legal immigrants and she was born here, but the family has struggled to bring her older sisters an

14、d brothers to the United States from their native El Salvador. Her oldest sister was 21 before the paperwork was approved and, as a result, has been refused permission to immigrate. Her years at Chavez, she says, “taught me to fight for what I believe in.”Celebrate Liberal ArtsPractical concernslike

15、 helping kids figure out a career pathwere not on the minds of the founders of Tempe Preparatory Academy in Arizona a decade ago. Instead, they created a charter school whose goal is to turn out students engaged in “the lifelong pursuit of truth, goodness and beauty,” according to the school handboo

16、k. For 330 students in grades 7 to 12, that means providing a strong foundation in the arts, science and the humanities. The curriculum is based on the Great Books conceptthe basis of Western Civilization, starting with the Greeks. “We dont want kids to specialize,” says Daniel Scoggin, CEO of Great Hearts Preparatory Academies, the organization behind Tempe and two other similar schoo