[外语类试卷]大学英语四级模拟试卷447及答案与解析.doc
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1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 447及答案与解析 一、 Part I Writing (30 minutes) 1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a letter of advice to your cousin about how to spend the first winter holiday in college. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below. 1. 告诉他不同的度过假期的方式 2各种方式的好处 3希望他能过一个
2、愉快且有意义的假期 二、 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 attached to the passage. For questions 1-7, mark: Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given
3、in the passage; N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage; NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage. 1 To Help the Kids, Parents Go Back to School For a few years now, every parent of a newborn baby in the South Florida district has receive
4、d a congratulations packet while still in the hospital that includes, among other things, a colorful animal picture book (in three languages) and a letter from something called the Parent Academy. “Keep in mind that you are, and will always be, your childs first and most important teacher,“ the lett
5、er reads. “Miami-Dade County Public Schools has many resources and opportunities for you to make the most of that awesome responsibility.“ You have to admit, its a pretty genius interpretation of that old advertising saying “Getem while theyre young.“ While the concept of parent academies-in which t
6、owns or school districts offer what are essentially classes and workshops on parenting skills-has been around for more than a decade, several larger cities are starting or expanding such programs in an effort to engage parents who are otherwise uninvolved in their childs education. Philadelphia has
7、invested heavily in this years launch of a comprehensive and wide-ranging program for parents. Boston is restoring its Parent University following an earlier versions shutdown due to budget cuts. And Miamis Parent Academy, now in its fifth year, offers more than 100 workshops that range from Help Yo
8、ur Child Succeed in Math to Teaching Behavior Skills. Parent academies are particularly helpful for urban communities full of mothers and fathers who for various reasons are disengaged from their childrens education. Many are single parents with second jobs that leave little time to help with school
9、work.Some are immigrants who dont understand much English.Some are parents uncomfortable with schoolwork-a survey released by Intel found that more than 50% of parents would rather talk to their kids about drugs or drunk driving than about math or science. And then theres the general confusion that
10、often comes from dealing with a bureaucracy(官僚作风 ) as complicated as the typical American school district. “There are parents who are just not as well informed about the way schools work,“ says Karen Mapp, director of the Education Policy and Management Program at the Harvard Graduate School of Educ
11、ation. “The policies, the procedures, what state test scores mean-its not that they dont care; they just dont know how.“ Picture yourself in the following supposed situations: youre a parent who never graduated high school; youre a parent whose only interactions with schools have been negative ones;
12、 youre a parent who has zero recollection of how to divide fractions; youre a parent who has no clue as to what the important dates are on the college- application calendar. Now picture yourself experiencing all of the supposed situations at once, and then imagine how your child would suffer from yo
13、ur knowledge deficiency. For as much as the current wave of education reformers like to maintain that quality teachers and schools can help overcome environmental factors, a childs home life plays an undeniable role in how well they learn, says Mapp. “Ive been doing research on family engagement for
14、 about 16 years now,“ she says. “And theres 40 years of research that indicates a pretty positive relationship between families being engaged in their childrens education and positive effects on students in terms of their academic achievement.“ Mapp is currently helping write a case study on Miamis
15、Parent Academy program, which is one of the nations most successful big-city attempts in this area. Privately funded by local philanthropists (慈善家 ) and businesses, the Parent Academy has seen more than 120,000 people participate in its workshops during the past half-decade. It has taught parents ev
16、erything from how to reinforce reading lessons at home to how to deal with threat and the dangers of sexing. The county has partly adjusted its approach to serve its large non-English-speaking community. “Many of our newly arrived immigrants dont understand what they can do to support their childs s
17、uccess,and they dont understand the system-theres no point in going to the school board when youre concerned about your childs homework,“ says Anne Thompson, director of the Miami-Dade program. Because of language issues, she often sees students having to do their parentsjobs in terms of navigating
18、school bureaucracy. In Philadelphia, superintendent Arlene Ackerman set up a Parent University this year after expressing concern over low literacy rates for parents and children, as well as a general lack of parental engagement among tow-income families, especially among African-American men. Taske
19、d with cherry-picking the best elements from other programs around the country (and tossing the worst), Karren Dunkley, deputy of the Philadelphia School Districts Office of Parent, Family and Community Services, and her colleagues realized that they needed to ground the program within the context o
20、f adult continuing education. That is, if youre trying to teach adults something, give them the respect of having it resemble a real class, which meets more than once, reinforces lessons and allows parents to form learning-centered relationships with instructors and fellow students-just as their kid
21、s do. “When we looked around the country, we found one-hit wonders, where parents would come into schools for daylong workshops,“ says Dunkley. “That really didnt produce transformative results, nor did it sustain interest or truly give support to parents.“ Supported primarily by federal funds, the
22、Philadelphia Parent Academys “curriculum“ runs the scope from a 10-week math-literacy course to a multipart social-etiquette(社交礼仪 ) class to a one-day session on attendance and truancy(逃课 ) that teaches parents about “compulsory education and attendance law.“ Its all targeted toward families in need
23、: parents of children at low-performing schools and residents of housing projects and emergency shelters. Of course, theres no guarantee that the people who need these programs the most will actually take advantage of them-you cant force parents to care, no matter how many free classes you offer.Sti
24、ll, says Harvards Mapp, you have to make progress where you can. “Family engagement is a shared, mutual partnership between educators and parents,“ she says. “Its a two-way conversation between home and school.“ 2 The letter in the congratulations packet intends to _. ( A) persuade parents to go bac
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