1、大学四级-231 及答案解析(总分：710.00，做题时间：90 分钟)一、Part Writing(总题数：1，分数：106.50)1.Directions : For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Do One Thing at a Time, And Do It Well by commenting on the saying, “I can do many things well at a time if given chances.“ You should write at
2、least 120 words but no more than 180 words. Do One Thing at a Time, And Do It Well（分数：106.50）_二、Part Listening Com(总题数：0，分数：0.00)三、Section A(总题数：4，分数：106.50)（分数：35.50）A.They don“t have enough money to buy other things.B.They have bought some household appliances.C.They have enough money to buy chick
3、en.D.They don“t want to buy anything else.A.Find a larger room.B.Sell the old table.C.Buy two armchairs.D.Rearrange some furniture.A.He likes the brand Omega very much.B.He dislikes the woman“s recommendation.C.He wants to buy an expensive watch.D.He doesn“t care about the design of the wristwatch.A
4、.She can do nothing to help the man.B.She knows nothing about basketball.C.They are not rich enough to buy another TV set.D.The man is always watching basketball games.A.Go to the cinema in spite of the cold weather.B.Stay at home and rest.C.Go over his lessons.D.Go to finish his work.（分数：21.30）A.Th
5、e woman has given up learning English.B.The woman does well in pronunciation and spelling.C.The man also does well in pronunciation and grammar.D.Neither the man nor the woman is good at spelling.A.To make the woman angry.B.To please the man“s mother.C.David is the man“s good friend.D.David is good
6、at carrying on conversations.A.The man has gone over three units of the course.B.The man has reviewed only eight units of the course.C.The man will spend the May Day holiday reviewing the twelve units.D.The man has been fully prepared for the final exam.Questions 9 to 11 are based on the conversatio
7、n you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.With computer skill.B.With job experience.C.With a major in English.D.With multiple skills.A.He speaks good English and has interest in business.B.He has worked in an import-export company for years.C.Some of his classmates have found jobs in that area.D.He is fami
8、liar with the software Word Perfect.A.He will call on the general manager.B.His classmates will do him a favor.C.The woman“s friend will help him.D.He will find it all by himself.Questions 12 to 15 are based on the conversation you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.She was doing housework.B.She was readi
9、ngJane Eyre.C.She was absorbed in a movie.D.She was talking with her sisters.A.Emily.B.Charlotte.C.Anne.D.Jane.A.He might have been spoiled.B.He wasn“t promoted.C.He didn“t have his own picture.D.He was looked down upon.A.Their settings were in the 19th century.B.They were stories about inequality.C
10、.They settled historical problems.D.They were published in pen names.四、Section B(总题数：0，分数：0.00)五、Passage One(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 16 to 18 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：21.30）A.He ran a village shop.B.He worked on a farm.C.He worked in an advertising agency.D.He was a gardene
11、r.A.It was stressful.B.It was colorful.C.It was peaceful.D.It was boring.A.His desire to start his own business.B.The crisis in his family life.C.His dream of living in the countryside.D.The decline in his health.六、Passage Two(总题数：1，分数：21.30)Questions 19 to 21 are based on the passage you have just
12、heard. （分数：21.30）A.The relationship between brain size and intelligence is unquestionable.B.People with small brains may be highly intelligent as well.C.Einstein was the only exception of the brain size and intelligence relationship.D.It is meaningless to study the relationship between brain size an
13、d intelligence.A.In the 1830s.B.In the 1930s.C.In the 1860s.D.In the 1960s.A.Adults and women tend to be more intelligent.B.Women on average have the same mental level with men.C.Women tend to score lower than men in Intelligence tests.D.Women are generally more intelligent than men.七、Passage Three(
14、总题数：1，分数：28.40)Questions 22 to 25 are based on the passage you have just heard. （分数：28.40）A.Children were more likely to drink too much soda.B.Attention problems had nothing to do with age and sex.C.Drinking soda might lead to aggressive behaviors.D.Signs of aggression were shown mainly by boys.A.Ta
15、king part in fights.B.Laughing at others.C.Consuming soft drinks.D.Attacking animals.A.Children“s friends.B.Parenting styles.C.Sleeping habits.D.Learning conditions.A.Caffeine.B.Sex.C.Sweets.D.Characters.八、Section C(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Teachers and parents normally call attention to the pictures when the
16、y read storybooks to preschool children. But a study suggests that calling attention to the words and letters on the page may 1 better readers. The two-year study 2 children who were read to this way in class with children who were not. Those whose teachers most often discussed the print showed 3 hi
17、gher skills in reading, spelling and understanding. These results were found one year and even two years later. The author of the study says most preschool teachers would find this method 4 and would need only a small change in the way they teach. They already read storybooks in class. The only diff
18、erence would be 5 attention to the printed text. If you get children to pay attention to letters and words, it 6 that they will do better at word 7 and spelling. But the research suggests that very few parents and teachers do this in a 8 way. There are different ways that adults can talk to children
19、 about print. They can point to a letter and discuss it, and even 9 the shape with a finger. They can point out a word: “This is “dog.“ They can discuss the meaning of the print or how the words tell the story. And they can talk about the 10 of the printfor instance, showing how words are written le
20、ft to right in English. （分数：71.00）填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_填空项 1:_九、Part Reading Compr(总题数：0，分数：0.00)十、Section A(总题数：1，分数：35.50)Official health advice that said household chores help keep you active has been proved wrong by the research, which shows that the peo
21、ple who do the most housework are also the most overweight. A study of the physical activity habits of 4,563 adults, carried out by Professor Marie Murphy at the University of Ulster found that women and older people were particularly likely to list “ 1 physical activity as a significant proportion
22、of their moderate to 2 physical activity“. Murphy said: “We found housework was reversely 3 to leanness, which suggests that either people are overestimating the amount of moderate-intensity physical activity they do through housework or are eating too much to 4 for the amount of activity undertaken
23、.“ Kevin Fenton, director of health and wellbeing at Public Health England, suggested the study could 5 evidence that some people thought they were healthier than they actually were. “At an individual level there may be a 6 to overestimate the level of “good behaviour“ we“re doing and this is reflec
24、ted when people use food diaries, pedometers (计步器) or apps to measure more 7 what they have achieved.“ he said. But he defended everyday tasks as genuinely useful. He added: “From an individual 8 , physical activities such as housework, doing the shopping and walking to collect children from school
25、can have 9 impacts on physical and mental wellbeing. People who are even more active will often see greater benefits and it is important to recognise that healthy weight is just one of the potential 10 of physical activity.“ A. gentle B. perspective C. positive D. causes E. objectively F. compensate
26、 G. practically H. account I. adjusted J. related K. reinforce L. tendency M. outcomes N. vigorous O. domestic（分数：35.50）十一、Section B(总题数：1，分数：71.00)Schools outside citiesA. With its sandy beaches, charming ruins and occasionally blue waters, the Isle of Wight is a perfect spot off England“s southern
27、 coast. Wealthy Londoners sail their boats there. It seems odd that such a place should contain some of the worst-performing schools in England. But it does; and in this, the Isle of Wight is not quite as strange as it seems. B. Provisional figures show that last year just 49% of 16-year-olds on the
28、 island got at least five C grades, including in English and maths, in GCSE exams. That is fewer than in any of London“s 32 boroughs (行政区), or indeed anywhere in the southern half of England apart from nearby Portsmouth. In the previous year the Isle of Wight was second to bottom in the whole countr
29、y. Just 23% of pupils entitled to free school meals (a representative of poverty) got five decent grades, compared with a national average of 36%. In September the island“s schools were deemed so bad that Hampshire County Council took them over. C. Part of the explanation is distinctively local. Lur
30、ing good teachers to an out-of-the-way spot is hard. In 2011 the island endured a confused transition from the sort of three-tier school system common in America, with primary, middle and secondary schools, to the two-tier one that is standard in England. But its results were bad even before that ch
31、ange. The Isle of Wight“s real problems are structural. It suffers from three things that might appear to be advantages but are actually the opposite. The island lacks a large city; it has some, but not many, poor children; and it is almost entirely white. D. England“s worst schools used to be urban
32、, poor and blackor sometimes Asian. But these days pupils, including poor ones, often fare better in inner cities than elsewhere. In Tower Hamlets, an east London borough that is the third most deprived place in England, children entitled to free school meals do better in GCSE exams than do all chil
33、dren in the country as a whole. Bangladeshis, who are concentrated in that borough, used to perform considerably worse than whites nationally; now they do better. E. Poor whites are now the country“s signal educational underachievers. Just 31% of white British children entitled to free school meals
34、got five good GCSEs two years ago, fewer than poor children from any other ethnic group. They fare especially badly in suburbs, small towns and on the coastplaces like the Isle of Wight. F. Although the island contains pockets of poverty, it is hardly poverty-stricken: overall it comes 106th out of
35、326 local authorities in England on the government“s deprivation index. A bigger problem is a pervasive lack of faith in education as a means of self-improvement. Steph Boyd, who runs a new free school on the island, says some parents doubt whether the education system can help their children not al
36、together surprising given the island“s failings. A few are more anxious for their offspring to go out and get jobs. And nearby career options are limited, points out Pat Goodhead, the headmistress of Christ the King College, the island“s best secondary school. The jobs pages of the County Press , th
37、e local newspaper, are filled with advertisements for care workers, barmen and cleaners. The advantage of deep poverty G. Oddly, the Isle of Wight might do better if it were poorer. Truly poor parts of England receive large amounts of government cash. Schools in Tower Hamlets get 7,014 a year for ea
38、ch child, compared with 4,489 in the Isle of Wight. In addition, secondary schools get 900 for each poor child thanks to the “pupil premium“ introduced by the coalition government. Poverty-stricken spots also benefit from energetic, idealistic young teachers. Teach First, a programme that sends top
39、graduates into poor schools for at least two years, started in London in 2002. Then it expanded to other big cities such as Manchester. Last year it started sending teachers to south coast towns, but in tiny numbers. Of the 1,261 graduates who joined the programme last year, just 25 were placed on t
40、he entire south coast, compared with 553 in London. H. Poor children do best in schools where they are either scarce or very numerous. Where they are few, teachers can give them plenty of attention. Where they are numerous, as in the East End of London, schools have no choice but to focus on them. M
41、ost ill-served are those who fall in between, in schools where they are insufficiently numerous to merit attention but too many to succeed alone. The Isle of Wight“s six state secondary schools are all stuck in the unhappy middle: between 9% and 17% of the children in them are entitled to free schoo
42、l meals. I. One woman, who moved to the island from east London with her young daughter, suspects that the Isle of Wight“s lack of diversity is itself a problem. She may be right about that. Illiteracy among white British children can be easier to overlook than illiteracy among immigrants. Where sch
43、ools are forced to help the latter, natives often benefit too, says Matthew Coffey of Ofsted, the schools inspectorate. That seems to have happened in Lincolnshire, which has seen a surge in Portuguese and east European immigration. J. The government and Ofsted are increasingly worried about the gap
44、 in attainment between poor white Britons and the rest. The Department for Education reckons changing the way schools“ success is measured could help. The current emphasis on grades of C and above encourages teachers to focus on children on the edge of attaining that grade, at the expense of those w
45、ho do really badly. Beginning in 2016 schools will have to track more closely the progress of each child, no matter what grades they are predicted to get. That should raise attentions of schools that have been able to coast along, ignoring the neediest, to give them more attention. But such reforms
46、may not make much difference on the Isle of Wight. Schools there have struggled even against the current benchmark. K. They might look to east London for inspiration. The dramatic improvement in Tower Hamlets resulted partly from efforts to change local culture. Schools ran programmes through mosque
47、s to tackle absenteeism (旷课). Parents were encouraged to become governors. But change will be harder outside the capital. Tower Hamlets benefits from nearby Canary Wharf, the capital“s second financial district, which supplies good jobs and middle-class advisers. The levers of change are less obviou
48、s where poor children are scattered thin. And there are fewer obvious institutions through which to try and improve the lot of the godless white majority.（分数：71.00）(1).Changing the way schools“ success is measured may of little help to improve the education of the Isle of Wight.（分数：7.10）(2).Compared
49、 with the illiteracy among immigrants, British white illiterates are easier to be neglected.（分数：7.10）(3).Poor children can receive enough attention either in schools with large number of poor students or those with few poor students.（分数：7.10）(4).More than half of the 16-year-old students on the Isle of Wight failed to get at
