1、大学英语四级模拟试卷 671（无答案）一、Part I Writing (30 minutes)1 For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled My View on the Real-name Registration System of Micro-blog. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below.1微博实名制存在争议2微博实名制的利弊3在我看来 My View on the Real-n
2、ame Registration System of Micro-blog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 wit
3、h the information given 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 New Graduation Math = Success for Community CollegesThe concept of community colleges in the United States developed
4、 in the early 20th century. Primarily, these schools are publicly-funded facilities offering higher education to anyone who is interested, especially those in the local community. Among the advantages of attending a community college is no time restrictions on a students educational progress, as the
5、re might be at a traditional university.Some of the most popular fields of study at the community college level include nursing, law enforcement, and technological fields. A community college traditionally offers certificates, credentials (证书) and / or Associates degrees in several courses of study.
6、Criticized for the unbelievably low number of their students who earn degrees, the nations community colleges may be about to more than double their graduation ratesnot by turning out a single additional graduate but by changing the way the rates are calculated.The move comes more than two years aft
7、er President Obama called for community colleges to produce an additional 5 million degree-holders by 2020.The paperwork change, recommended by an advisory committee to the U. S. Department of Education , would revise the formula for determining community college graduation rates to include the larg
8、e number of students who transfer to other schools after having completed at least 30 credits at a community college.That alone would raise completion rates to 40 percent, according to the American Association of Community Colleges, up from the 18 percent of community college students who now receiv
9、e a two-year associate degree within three years, according to the National Center for Education Statistics.The new completion rate would also count students who take up to four years, rather than the current three, to finish their two-year degrees. It is not clear how much higher that would raise t
10、he completion figures.Officials are working out the technical details and plan to make a formal announcement about the proposal this month.Critics say community colleges should be spending their time helping students graduate, not altering the rules by which their performance is measured.“ It doesnt
11、 change the fact that a significant number of students do come to community colleges to earn a degree but dont,“ said Stan Jones, a former Indiana commissioner of higher education and president of Complete College America, which is pushing to increase the number of Americans with such credentials.“
12、I would rather see people focusing on improving the graduation rates than trying to defend or reconstruct them,“ Jones said.Changing the graduation rate calculations wont make any difference at all in the proportion of Americans ages 25 to 34 who have degrees, which is also a priority of the Lumina
13、Foundation for Education, said its president, Jamie Merisotis. The United States ranks 16th in the world by this measure, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development.“ Its going to be very important to be clear that this is not suggesting that more students are l
14、iterally completing college and attaining a credential,“ Merisotis said. (The Lumina Foundation is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.)But Merisotis said hes sympathetic to community colleges argument that the non-traditional backgrounds of their students85 percent
15、of whom work full time, almost a third of whom are balancing their educations with family obligations, and some of whom plan to transfer to other two- or four-year institutionsmake the current formula for calculating graduation rates unfair.Counting only the number of students who graduate within tw
16、o years “ creates a problem in terms of our ability to understand who is actually being successful“ by, for example, transferring to a four-year college or university and getting a bachelors degree, Merisotis said.Wayne Burton, president of North Shore Community College in Massachusetts and a member
17、 of the advisory committee, said that very low graduation rates have made community colleges “ into a punch line, and that just makes me angry. Its usually used as a metaphor (比喻) for somebody thats not very smart. You cant understand how deeply hurtful this statistic has been to our schools. “Consi
18、dering how many community college students, compared with students in other kinds of higher-education institutions, are nonwhite36 percent overall, and higher on some campusesusing the low graduation rate “ is almost racist,“ Burton said.He acknowledged that the Obama administrations focus on commun
19、ity colleges has intensified this scrutiny (评审 ).“The hardest thing weve had to do is to describe a community college to a country thats never cared before, as institutions with incredibly diverse student bodies and diverse missions for students with diverse goals that are not reflected in the curre
20、nt calculations,“ Burton said.The new formula, he said, “will just acknowledge that students succeed here in different ways. “Counting students as having successfully completed a community college if they accumulate 30 or more credits before transferring would be tracked through the National Student
21、 Clearinghouse, a little-known non-profit organization that monitors the registration status of every student in America as well as how much money he or she borrows toward educational costs.“If you consider transfer to be a successful outcomeand many community-college people say their job is to get
22、the student into the four-year collegethen the graduation rate has to rise,“ said Thomas Bailey, director of the Community College Research Center at Teachers College, Columbia University, and the advisory committees chairman.Many students who start at community colleges, Bailey said, discover that
23、theyre comfortable doing college-level work and transfer to four-year schools without staying long enough to earn associate degrees.“ Lets look at it this way,“ Bailey said. “ The graduation rate as it stands now is easy to dismiss meaningless. So whatever it is, as far as thats concerned, you dont
24、have a graduation rate. “Changing the math, he said, doesnt let community colleges off the hook for completion rates that will still be lower than 50 percent.“ I dont want to say, Oh my God, community colleges have improvedtheyve gone from 20 percent to 40 percent in the last year,“ said Bailey. “Th
25、ats ridiculous. “Even if the overall community-college graduation rate hits 40 percent, he said, that still means three out of every five students are failing to graduate.“Will we say thats a good number,“ Bailey asked, “and we can all go home now?“2 What is one of the advantages of attending a comm
26、unity college?（A）Easier to receive individualized assistance from faculty.（B） Extensive student activities including sports activities.（C） Financial aids from the community and even the state.（D）No time restrictions on a students educational progress.3 What are the nations community colleges going t
27、o do to raise their graduation rates?（A）Change the calculation method.（B） Simplify graduation examinations.（C） Introduce more job opportunities to students.（D）Admit more students from next year on.4 The new formula for community college graduation rates will include the students who_.（A）attend commu
28、nity colleges with a full-time job（B） receive a two-year associate degree within three years（C） transfer to other schools with enough credits（D）fail to pass some of the graduation exams5 What do the critics think is the community colleges responsibility?（A）To improve the communities literacy.（B） To
29、facilitate the graduation of their students.（C） To change the measurement of their performance.（D）To boost the communities image.6 According to Stan Jones, what does not change against the new graduation measurement?（A）The capability of community college students.（B） The overall level of community c
30、ollege faculty.（C） The concern community colleges will receive.（D）The fact that many students dont get, a degree.7 Concerning the current formula for calculating graduation rates, community colleges argue that_.（A）students complicated backgrounds make it unfair（B） change of student identities makes
31、it old-fashioned（C） mobility of students among colleges makes it inaccurate（D）previous calculation mistakes make it misleading8 Wayne Burton feels angry for the term “community colleges“ is used to refer to_.（A）third-class schools（B） unintelligent people（C） poor institutions（D）idle working staff9 Bu
32、rton suggested that the current calculations didnt reflect_of community colleges student bodies, their missions and goals.10 Thomas Bailey believes that the graduation rate should be raised if transfer to the four-year college is considered_.11 Many community-college students transferred to four-yea
33、r colleges dont stay long enough to_Section ADirections: In this section, you will hear 8 short conversations and 2 long conversations. At the end of each conversation, one or more questions will be asked about what was said. Both the conversation and the questions will be spoken only once. After ea
34、ch 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.（A）The professor wanted to change the classroom.（B） Too many students were absent from the class.（C） Too many students showed up.（D）The professor didnt show u
35、p.（A）She usually goes home for lunch.（B） She spends her lunch time shopping.（C） She likes to spend her lunch time at the library.（D）She falls asleep during lunch time at the library.（A）Meet a client.（B） Prepare the dinner.（C） Date with a friend.（D）Pick up the woman.（A）Tomorrow will be a good day.（B）
36、 The weatherman is good at his work.（C） The storm will get worse tomorrow.（D）The weather forecast is always incorrect.（A）The woman will forgive Jenny for being late.（B） The woman is usually late for a date like Jenny.（C） The womans talk with Jenny will be in vain.（D）The womans talk with Jenny will b
37、e joyful.（A）He is a big fan of classical music.（B） He wants to learn classical music.（C） He prefers heavy metal music to classical music.（D）He wants to go to classical music concert again.（A）Go to Professor Lees office.（B） Go to the library for some materials.（C） Finish his assignment with Kate.（D）H
38、elp Kate with her assignment.（A）When to signal to turn while driving.（B） Who should be responsible for the traffic accident.（C） Why careless driving and speeding lead to accident.（D）How to prevent traffic accident happening.（A）The price and the location of the house.（B） The payment date and the cont
39、ents of the house.（C） The policies of the insurance company.（D）The amount of deductibles.（A）The fees will be lower.（B） The fees will be higher.（C） The insurance company will pay more.（D）The insurance company will pay the same.（A）The highest deductible is $2,000.（B） The policyholders have to pay $2,0
40、00 for any claim.（C） The policies will be cancelled after the first year.（D）They usually sign one-year contract first.（A）A summer holiday shes been longing for.（B） A research project that might interest her.（C） A job she will take after graduation.（D）A graduation speech shes going to deliver.（A）They
41、 are being well protected by humans.（B） They are offered more food by tourists.（C） They are physically adapted to the harsh winter.（D）They are enabled by the paths to find more food.（A）They may attack human beings in the farm.（B） They caused abortion of farm animals.（C） They destroy the farm crops.（
42、D）They have valuable furs and meat.（A）Because she is well-informed with red foxes.（B） Because she once visited the red fox national park.（C） Because she majors in animal disease prevention.（D）Because shes been conducting relevant researches.Section BDirections: In this section, you will hear 3 short
43、 passages. At the end of each passage, you will hear some questions. Both the passage and the questions will be spoken only once. After you hear a question, you must choose the best answer from the four choices marked A, B, C and D.（A）Leave mobile phones to their family.（B） Put mobile phones outside
44、 the bedroom.（C） Send e-mail to their friends and family.（D）Send text messages before they go to sleep.（A）They want to talk a lot to their family members.（B） They like to complain to friends while sleeping.（C） They have difficulty telling waking from sleeping.（D）They have too much to do during wakin
45、g life.（A）Get phones out of the bedroom.（B） Reduce the stress of daily life.（C） Make a schedule about time to sleep.（D）Separate waking and sleeping lives.（A）Watch a funny movie online.（B） Listen to the laughter of colleagues.（C） Remember ball passing times.（D）Pass the ball back and forth.（A）Workers
46、who listened to the laughter saved effort for the task.（B） Workers who watched the funny short film made fewer mistakes.（C） Workers who laughed for a few minutes focused more on the task.（D）Workers who listened to the laughter made fewer mistakes.（A）Workers will become less focused when using the In
47、ternet freely.（B） Forbidding workers using the Internet freely will decrease their productivity.（C） Workers will be distracted from their work when given Internet breaks.（D）Companies could increase productivity by giving employees more freedom.（A）Important functions of television.（B） Peoples relatio
48、nship with television.（C） Harm and reasons for watching too much TV.（D）Ways to avoid being couch potatoes.（A）People have a love-hate relationship with television.（B） People spend astonishing amount of time watching TV.（C） Television reduces peoples time for the important things.（D）Television is the
49、most popular tool to kill leisure time.（A）They like the couches.（B） They are always lazy.（C） They like the TV programs.（D）They get used to the passive activity.（A）Make a plan of the watching time.（B） Turn off the TV before the show is over.（C） Look for motivations to get pff the couch.（D）Make potatoes in place when watching TV.Section CDirections: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully
