1、专业八级分类模拟404及答案解析 (总分：145.50，做题时间：90分钟)一、WRITING(总题数：9，分数：145.50)1.题目要求：A recent BBC documentary in which five Chinese teachers were invited to teach a group of British teenagers using Chinese teaching methods has caused a stir in China and in the UK. What can Chinese and British educators learn from
2、 each other? Read the excerpts carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the different opinions; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the abov
3、e instructions may result in a loss of marks. Eaststar (China) Neither the British nor the Chinese education system is perfect. They can learn from each other to produce disciplined, respectful, well-educated and yet self-motivated, socially competent, creative and socially responsible students. In
4、my course of primary and secondary schooling, I had the privilege of experiencing both systems. In my opinion, the Chinese system is excellent in learning the academic fundamentals, but not so much beyond that. Ted (the UK) Students in China are raised to study for long hours, with great expectation
5、s and demands. Yet they have little social life and there is no encouragement for an enjoyment of lifelong learning. In the West, students are taught to enjoy learning, questioning and using initiative with active learning and problem-solving. They have a broad and balanced education to include soci
6、al learning, but the downside is difficulties with behavior, most evident in the teenage years. The best of both systems is perhaps what is needed. Leonard (Singapore) The Chinese education requires rote learning. It seems boring but it trains the mind to focus on what is important and develop conce
7、ntration and good study habits. These habits benefit them even at a later age. More could be done to encourage children to express opinions about the things they encounter. Michael (the US) My overall opinion is that the West can learn a lot from China in education. My personal belief is that the bi
8、ggest benefits of Chinese secondary education are: 1. Longer hours at school. 2. Competitiveness. This is more important in China because there are so many job seekers looking for employment in a highly competitive job market. 3. Higher expectations and demands upon students. 4. More lecture-based l
9、essons. This is great preparation for college. Effective note-taking is essential for college. 5. Team building. This too creates an intellectual environment where synergy is created in addition to developing personal attributes such as tolerance, cooperation and harmony. Tal (China) If I had a chil
10、d, I think Id consider Chinese education for part of his learning. I think that perhaps the middle school years are a good time for him to develop strong fundamental skills in math, leading, memory retention, etc., that the Chinese system teaches well. But in the more formative primary and high scho
11、ol years, Id opt for an international school in China offering the international business or something similar. Children need the freedom to explore, express, inquire and understand. These are things that the Chinese system simply does not offer to anywhere near the same degree. In my view, the chie
12、f weakness in Chinas system is the lack of room for creativity and individuality among students. Students do not become good learners; they merely become good test takers. Seneca (China) The one achievement of the Chinese teachers in Britain is that they got the British kids to pay more attention to
13、 the teacher. Discipline was reintroduced there. Mind you, that is nothing new. Discipline was common just 30 years ago. Its gone out of classroom windows over the past 30 years because Western parents, beneficiaries of the Hippie revolution against the Establishment, have inculcated a much more rel
14、axed attitude to their children. Unfortunately, today Western kids are highly problematic at school. The borderline between adulthood and youth is in flux, with stupid parents giving their children more and more slack so that teachers now are faced with undisciplined, rude and Sometimes confrontatio
15、nal students. （分数：14.00）_2.题目要求：A lightly mockery word has been coined to define the single female group above the average age for marriageleftover women. Is this a personal business or a social issue? Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. sum
16、marize briefly the authors opinion; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Young, Single and What About It?In her tiny flat, which she shares wi
17、th two cats and a flock of porcelain owls, Chi Yingying describes her parents as wanting to be the controlling shareholders in her life. Even when she was in her early 20s, her mother raged at her for being unmarried. At 28, Ms. Chi made the most courageous decision of my life and moved into her own
18、 home. Now 33, she relishes the privacyat a price: her monthly rent of 4,000 yuan swallows nearly half her salary. In many countries, leaving the family home well before marriage is a rite of passage. But in China choosing to live alone and unmarried is eccentric verging on taboo. Chinese culture at
19、taches a particularly high value to the idea that families should live together. Yet ever more people are living alone. In the decade to 2010, the number of single-person households doubled. Today, over 58m Chinese live by themselves, according to census data, a bigger number of one-person homes tha
20、n in America, Britain and France combined. Solo dwellers make up 14% of all households. The pattern of Chinese living alone is somewhat different from that in the West, because tens of millions of (mainly poor) migrant workers have moved away from home to find work in more prosperous regions of Chin
21、a; many in this group live alone, often in shoeboxes. Yet for the most part, younger Chinese living alone are from or among the better-off. Freedom and new wealth have broken Chinas traditional family structures, says Jing Jun of Tsinghua University in Beijing. For the better-educated under-30-year-
22、olds, the more money they have, the more likely they are to live alone. Rich parts of China have more non-widowed single dwellers: in Beijing a fifth of homes house only one person. The marriage age is rising, particularly in big cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, where the average man marries a
23、fter 30 and the average woman at 28, older than their American counterparts. Divorce rates are also increasing, though they are still much lower than in America. More than 3.5m Chinese couples split up each year, which adds to the number of single households. For some, living alone is a transitional
24、 stage on the way to marriage, remarriage or family reunification. But for a growing number of people it may be a permanent state. In cities, many educated, urban women stay single, often as a positive choicea sign of rising status and better employment opportunities. Rural areas, by contrast, have
25、a skewed sex ratio in which men outnumber women, a consequence of families preferring sons and aborting female fetuses or abandoning baby girls. The consequence is millions of reluctant bachelors. In the past, adulthood in China used to, almost without exception, mean marriage and having children wi
26、thin supervised rural or urban structures. Now a growing number of Chinese live beyond prying eyes, able to pursue the social and sexual lives they choose. Living alone does not have to mean breaching social normsphones and the Internet make it easier than ever to keep in touch with relations, after
27、 all. Yet loosening family ties may open up space for new social networks, interest groups, even political aspirations. For now those who live alone are often subject to mockery. Unmarried females are labelled leftover women; unmarried men, bare branchesfor the family tree they will never grow. An o
28、nline group called women living alone is stacked with complaints about being told to get a boyfriend. （分数：16.50）_3.题目要求：The Internet is creating a language evolution at a very fast pace. People on the Internet are paying less attention to grammar and spelling, and speakers dont have to worry about t
29、heir accent as well. Some linguists are saying that English will one day become obsolete as Latin, while others take the changes of language as a natural tendency. The following is an article about how the Internet is changing English. Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300
30、words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the opinions in the article; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks. Learn English Online: How t
31、he Internet Is Changing the LanguageOnline, English has become a common language for users from around the world. In the process, the language itself is changing. An American Dictionary of the English Language took 18 years to complete and Webster learned 26 other languages in order to research the
32、etymology of its 70,000 entries. The Internet is creating a similar language evolution, but at a much faster pace. Some linguists predict that within 10 years English will dominate the Internetbut in forms very different to what we accept and recognise as English today. Thats because people who spea
33、k English as a second language already outnumber native speakers. And increasingly they use it to communicate with other non-native speakers, particularly on the Internet where less attention is paid to grammar and spelling and users dont have to worry about their accent. The Internet enfranchises p
34、eople who are not native speakers to use English in significant and meaningful ways, says Naomi Baron, professor of linguistics at American University in Washington DC. On the Internet, all that matters is that people can communicatenobody has a right to tell them what the language should be, says B
35、aron. If you can talk Facebook into putting up pages, you have a language that has political and social standing even if it doesnt have much in the way of linguistic uniqueness. Technology companies are tapping into the new English variations with products aimed at enabling users to add words that a
36、re not already in the English dictionary. And most large companies have English websites, while smaller businesses are learning that they need a common languageEnglishto reach global customers. While most people dont speak English as their first language, there is a special commercial and social rol
37、e for English driven by modern forms of entertainment, says Robert Munro, a computational linguist and head of Idibon, a language technology company in California. The prevalence of English movies in regions where there is not much technology other than cell phones and DVDs makes English an aspirati
38、onal language. People think its the language of the digital age. In previous centuries, the convergence of cultures and trade led to the emergence of pidgina streamlined system of communication that has simple grammatical structure, says Michael Ullman, director of research at Georgetown Universitys
39、 Brain and Language Lab. When the next generation of pidgin speakers begin to add vocabulary and grammar, it becomes a distinct Creole language. You get different endings, its more complex and systematized. Something like that could be happening to English on the web, he says. Take the Hinglish for
40、example. Hinglish is a blend of Hindi, Punjabi, Urdu and English and is so widespread that its even being taught to British diplomats. The increasing prevalence of the Internet in everyday life means that language online is not a zero sum game. Instead, it allows multiple languages to flourish. Most
41、 people actually speak multiple languagesits less common to only speak one, says Mr. Munro. English has taken its place as the worlds lingua franca, but its not pushing out other languages. Instead, other languages are pushing their way into English, and in the process creating something new. （分数：14
42、.00）_4.题目要求：In a frantic society where efficiency is put great emphasis on, maybe it is high time we should take a breath and think about the bad consequences brought about by the head-spinning life. In the following excerpt, the author presents his opinion on the slow lifestyle versus the fast one.
43、 Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should: 1. summarize briefly the authors opinion; 2. give your comment. Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions m
44、ay result in a loss of marks. Fast-free LivingWhat Americans would do if they were serious about stopping to smell the flowers? Is the American lifestyle slowing down, in a response to national trauma and the onset of war? Judging from commentaries by cultural analysts and newspaper columnists, the
45、answer is yes. A Boston Globe editorial looked back on a hard year: But it brought growth, too, and a deeper understanding of just how fragile life is, and what we often take for grantedthe kiss goodbye in the morning, the chat with a friend, the Saturday soccer gameis what matters most. An observat
46、ion from The Washington Post : People seem to walk more slowly. They are off their brisk, self-important stride. Motorists are driving better. They lay off their horns. They dont jump lights. From The Dallas Morning News : Americans are experiencing a sort of cocooning of the heart, cultural experts
47、 say. Theyre using this time to reconnect with their families and friends. If Americans really were beginning to slow down, the contemporary simplicity movement would not be adding another meeting or two a month to our schedules. The antidote to a frenetic work life wouldnt be something called power
48、 leisure. The celebration of the new slowness may not reflect reality, but it surely does reflect some degree of yearning. Yet there may be a few bold steps we should take to get us on the path to fast-free living. Backpacks. The task of slowing the country down must begin with efforts aimed at prevention. It should begin early, as an inspection of any schoolchilds backpack will reveal. These encumbrances typical
