全国大学英语四级等级考试试题及答案详解.docx

1、全国大学英语四级等级考试试题及答案详解2012年6月全国大学英语四级等级考试试题及答案 Part Writing (30minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Excessive Packaging following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.1.目前许多商品存在过度包装的现象2.出现这一现象的原因

2、3.我对这一现象的看法和建议On Excessive PackagingPart Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes)Directions: 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）

3、and D). For questions 8-10,complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Small Schools RisingThis years list of the top 100 high schools shows that today, those with fewer students are flourishing.Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in educational reform: big, modern, subu

4、rban high schools with students counted in the thousands. As baby boomers(二战后婴儿潮时期出生的人) came of high-school age, big schools promised economic efficiency. A greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams. Only years later did we understand the trade-offs this involved: the creation

5、 of excessive bureaucracies(官僚机构)，the difficulty of forging personal connections between teachers and students.SAT scores began dropping in 1963;today,on average,30% of students do not complete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods. While the emphasis on t

6、eaching to higher, test-driven standards as set in No Child Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed to have made little progress.Size isnt everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen

7、 a noticeable countertrend toward smaller schools. This has been due ,in part ,to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $1.8 billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schools-most of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 pe

8、r grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board. Districts all over the country are taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and San Diego. The movement includes independent public charter schools, such as No.1 BASIS in Tucson, with only 120 high-schoolers and 18 graduates

9、this year. It embraces district-sanctioned magnet schools, such as the Talented and Gifted School, with 198 students, and the Science and Engineering Magnet,with383,which share a building in Dallas, as well as the City Honors School in Buffalo, N.Y., which grew out of volunteer evening seminars for

10、students. And it includes alternative schools with students selected by lottery(抽签)，such as H-B Woodlawn in Arlington, Va. And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units of a few hundred, generally housed in the same

11、 grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif, is one of those, ranking No.423-among the top 2% in the country-on Newsweeks annual ranking of Americas top high schools. The success of small schools is apparent in the listings

12、. Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on college-level test participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools had graduating Classes smaller than 100 students. This year there are 22. Nearly 250 schools on the full ,Newsweek list of the top 5% of schools nationally had few

13、er than 200 graduates in 2007.Although many of Hillsdales students came from wealthy households, by the late 1990 average test scores were sliding and it had earned the unaffectionate nickname (绰号) Hillsjail. Jeff Gilbert. A Hillsdale teacher who became principal last year, remembers sitting with ot

14、her teachers watching students file out of a graduation ceremony and asking one another in astonishment, How did that student graduate?So in 2003 Hillsdale remade itself into three houses, romantically named Florence, Marrakech and Kyoto. Each of the 300 arriving ninth graders are randomly(随机地) assi

15、gned to one of the houses. Where they will keep the same four core subject teachers for two years, before moving on to another for 11th and 12th grades. The closeness this system cultivates is reinforced by the institution of advisory classes Teachers meet with students in groups of 25, five morning

16、s a week, for open-ended discussions of everything from homework problems to bad Saturday-night dates. The advisers also meet with students privately and stay in touch with parents, so they are deeply invested in the students success.Were constantly talking about one anothers advisers, says English

17、teacher Chris Crockett. If you hear that yours isnt doing well in math, or see them sitting outside the deans office, its like a personal failure. Along with the new structure came a more demanding academic program, the percentage of freshmen taking biology jumped from 17 to 95.It was rough for some

18、. But by senior year, two-thirds have moved up to physics, says Gilbert Our kids are coming to school in part because they know there are adults here who know them and care for them.But not all schools show advances after downsizing, and it remains to be seen whether smaller schools will be a cure-a

19、ll solution.The Newsweek list of top U.S. high schools was made this year, as in years past, according to a single metric, the proportion of students taking college-level exams. Over the years this system has come in for its share of criticism for its simplicity. But that is also its strength: its e

20、asy for readers to understand, and to do the arithmetic for their own schools if theyd like.Ranking schools is always controversial, and this year a group of 38 superintendents(地区教育主管)from five states wrote to ask that their schools be excluded from the calculation.It is impossible to know which hig

21、h schools are the best in the nation, their letter read. in part. Determining whether different schools do or dont offer a high quality of education requires a look at man different measures, including students overall academic accomplishments and their subsequent performance in college. And taking

22、into consideration the unique needs of their communities.In the end, the superintendents agreed to provide the data we sought, which is, after all, public information. There is, in our view, no real dispute here, we are all seeking the same thing, which is schools that better serve our children and

23、our nation by encouraging students to tackle tough subjects under the guidance of gifted teachers. And if we keep working toward that goal, someday, perhaps a list wont be necessary.注意：此部分试题请在答卡1上作答.1 Fifty years ago. big. Modern. Suburban high schools were established in the hope of _.A) ensuring n

24、o child is left behindB) increasing economic efficiencyC) improving students performance on SATD)providing good education for baby boomers2. What happened as a result of setting up big schools?A)Teachers workload increased.B)Students performance declined.C)Administration became centralized.D)Student

25、s focused more on test scores.3.What is said about the schools forded by the Bill and Melinda Gates foundation?A)They are usually magnet schools.B)They are often located in poor neighborhoods.C)They are popular with high-achieving students.D)They are mostly small in size.4.What is most noticeable ab

26、out the current trend in high school education?A)Some large schools have split up into smaller ones.B)A great variety of schools have sprung up in urban and suburban areas.C)Many schools compete for the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation funds.D)Students have to meet higher academic standards.5.Newsw

27、eek ranked high schools according to .A)their students academic achievementB)the number of their students admitted to collegeC)the size and number of their graduating classesD)their college-level test participation6.What can we learn about Hillsdales students in the late 1990s?A)They were made to st

28、udy hard like prisoners.B)They called each other by unaffectionate nicknames.C)Most of them did not have any sense of discipline,D)Their school performance was getting worse.7.According to Jeff Gilbert, the advisory classes at Hillsdale were set up so that students could .A)tell their teachers what

29、they did on weekendsB)experience a great deal of pleasure in learningC)maintain closer relationships with their teachersD)tackle the demanding biology and physics courses8._is still considered a strength of Newsweeks school ranking system in spite of the criticism it receives.9.According to the 38 s

30、uperintendents, to rank schools scientifically, it is necessary to use_. 10.To better serve the children and our nation, schools students to take_.Part Listening Comprehension (35minutes)Section ADirections: in this section you will hear 8 short conversations, one or more questions will be asked abo

31、ut what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After each question there will be a pause. During the pause, you must read the four choices marked A)、B）、C）and D)、and decide which is the best answer. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer sheet 2 with a singl

32、e line through the centre.注意：此部分试题请在答案卡2上作案。11. A)Trying to sketch a map C)Discussing a house plan. B)Painting the dining room. D)Cleaning the kitchen.12.A)She is tired of the food in the canteen. B)She often eats in a French restaurant. C) She usually takes a snack in the KFC. D)She in very fussy about what she eats.13.A) Listening to some loud musi