2015年英语四级考试每日一练(12月10日)
1、Questions are based on the passage you have just heard.
A.They bring their most beautiful clothes to the school.
B.They don't have to wear jeans and sweatshirts.
C.They are dressed in a quite formal way.
D.They can break up the dress code for one day.
2、听录音,回答题
A.Advice on the purchase of cars.
B.Solutions to global fuel shortage.
C.Trends for the development of the motor car.
D.Information about the new green-fuel vehicles.
3、听录音,回答题
A.It is often caused by a change of circumstances.
B.It actually doesn't require any special treatment.
C.It usually appears all of a sudden.
D.It generally lasts for several years.
4、 听录音,回答题
A. He finds it rather stressful.
B. He is thinking of quitting it.
C. He can handle it quite well.
D. He has to work extra hours.
5、根据材料,回答问题。
Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices markedA.,B., C. and D.. You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.
Passage One
Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage.
Let children learn to judge their own work. A child learning to talk does not learn by being corrected all the time: if corrected too much, he will stop talking. He notices a thousand times a day the difference between the language he uses and the language those around him use. Bit by bit, he makes the necessary changes to make his language like other people's. In the same way, when children learn to do all the other things they learn to do without being taught to walk, run, climb, whistle, ride a bicycle--compare those performances with those of more skilled people, and slowly make the needed changes. But in school we never give a child a chance to find out his own mistakes for himself, let alone correct them. We do it all for him. We act as if we thought that he would never notice a mistake unless it was pointed out to him, or correct it unless he was made to. Soon he becomes dependent on the teacher. Let him do it himself. Let him work out, with the help of other children if he wants it, what this word says, what answer is to that problem, whether this is a good way of saying or doing this or not.
If it is a matter of right answers, as it may be in mathematics or science, give him the answer book. Let him correct his own papers. Why should we teachers waste time on such routine work? Our job should be to help the child when he tells us that he can't find the way to get the right answer. Let's end this nonsense of grades, exams,marks. Let us throw them all out, and let the children learn what all educated persons must someday learn, how to measure their own understanding, how to know what they know or do not know.
Let them get on with this job in the way that seems most sensible to them, with our help as school teachers if they ask for it. The idea that there is a body of knowledge to be learnt at school and used for the rest of one's life is nonsense in a world as complicated and rapidly changing as ours. Anxious parents and teachers say, "But suppose they fail to learn something essential, something they will need to get in the world?" Don't worry! If it is essential, they will go out into the world and learn it.
What does the author think is the best way for children to learn things?
A.By imitating what other people do.
B.By making mistakes and having them corrected.
C.By listening to explanations from skilled people.
D.By asking a great many questions.
简答题
6、“你要茶还是要咖啡?”是用餐人常被问到的问题。许多西方人会选咖啡。而中国人则会选茶。相传,中国的一位帝王于五千多年前发现了茶,并用来治病。在明清(the Ming and Qing Dynasties)期间,茶馆遍布全国。饮茶在六世纪传到日本,但直到十七、十八世纪才传到欧美。如今,茶是世界上流行的饮料(beverage)之一。茶是中国的民族饮品,也是中国传统和文化的重要组成部分。
7、中国教育工作者早就认识到读书对于国家的重要意义。有些教育工作者2003年就建议设立全民读书日。他们强调。人们应当读好书,尤其是经典著作。通过阅读,人们能更好地学会感恩、有责任心和与人合作,而教育的目的正是要培养这些基本素质。阅读对于中小学生尤为重要,假如他们没有在这个关键时期培养阅读的兴趣,以后要养成阅读的习惯就很难了。
8、
在中国,人们对一切艺术的艺术,即生活的艺术,懂得很多。一个较为年轻的国家可能会致力于进步;然而一个古老的文明国度,自然在人生的历程上见多识广,她所感兴趣的自然是如何过好生活。就中国而言,由于有了中国的人文主义精神,把人当作一切事物的中心,把人类幸福当作知识的终结,于是,强调生活的艺术就是更为自然的事情了。但即使没有人文主义,-个古老的文明也一定会有一个不同的价值尺度,只有这样.它才会知道仟么是“持久的生活乐趣”。任何一个民族,如果它不知道如何享受生活,那么,在我们的眼里,这个民族一定是粗野的、不文明的。
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Directions: For this Part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a shortessay about a classmate of yours who has influenced you most in college.You should state the reasons and write at least 120 zvords but no more than180 words.
10、为了促进教育公平,中国已投入360亿元.用于改善农村地区教育渡施和加强中西部地区农村义务教育(compuisory education).这些资金用于改善教学设施、购买书籍,使16万多所中小学收益.资金还用于购置音乐和绘画器材。现在农村和山区的。儿童可以与沿海城市的儿童一样上音乐盒绘画课.一些为接受更好教育而转往城市上学的学生如今又回到了本地农村学校就读。