2012年6月英语四级真题

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2012 年6月英语四级考试真题

Part I Writing （30 minutes）

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

　　3.我对这一现象的看法和建议

On Excessive Packaging

Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15

minutes)

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) and D). For questions

8-10, complete the sentence with the information given in the passage.

Small Schools Rising

　　 This year’s 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,

suburban 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 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 teaching 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 isn’t everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen 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 per 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 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 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 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 Newsweek’s annual ranking of America’s top

high schools. The success of small schools is apparent in the listings. 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 fewer than 200 graduates in 2007.

　　 Although many of Hillsdale’s 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 other 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) assigned 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 mornings 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.“We’re constantly talking

about one another’s advisers,” says English teacher Chris Crockett. “If you hear that

yours isn’t doing well in math, or see them sitting outside the dean’s office, it’s 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. 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-all

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: it’s easy for readers to understand, and to do the arithmetic for

their own schools if they’d 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 high schools are ‘the

best’ in the nation, ”their letter read. in part. “Determining whether different schools

do or don’t 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 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 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 won’t 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 no child is left behind

　　B) increasing economic efficiency

　　C) improving students’ performance on SAT

D) providing good education for baby boomers

　　2. What happened as a result of setting up big schools?

　　A) Teachers’ workload increased.

　　B) Students’ performance declined.

　　C) Administration became centralized.

D) Students focused more on test scores.

　　 3. What is said about the schools forded by the Bill and Melinda Gates

foundation?

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2012年6月英语四级考试真题PartIWriting（30minutes）Directions:Forthispart,youareallowed30minutestowriteashortessayentitledExcessivePackagingfollowingtheoutlinegivenbelow.Youshouldwriteatleast120wordsbutnomorethan180words.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　　3.我对这一现象的看法和建议OnExcessivePackaging　　　　PartIIReadingComprehen...

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