2012年12月英语四级考试模拟试题及答案参考.pdfVIP

2012年12月英语四级考试模拟试题及答案参考 Part IWriting (30minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic “Education: Examination-Oriented or Quality-Oriented”. You should write at least 120 words following the outline givenbelow inChinese: 1. 应试教育现状及其原因; 2. 素质教育的优点; 3. 你的观点。 Part IIReading Comprehension (Skimmingand Scanning) (15minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly. For questions 1-7, choose the best answer from the four choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8-10, complete the sentences with the information given inthe passage. SellingExpertise onthe Internet forExtra Cash Teresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her private practice decreasedlast year.Thenthe single mother turnedtoher keyboard toboost her income. Ms. Estes appliedtobecome an “expert” onLivePerson Inc., a Website where clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers of all fields. For $1.89 a minute — a rate she set — the 39-year-old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice to clients around the globe. She spends about four hours a dayonline, oftenat night, whenher daughterhas gone tobed. “It was the economy,”she says ofher move to take herskills online. “Live Person is more profitable thanmy private practice.” Ms. Estes hadchargedher privateclients upto$75an hour. As the recession deepens, a small but growing number of people are taking their skills online, offering expertise or performing specified tasks for a fee. Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining popularity as people increasingly turn tothe Webinsearch of work. Internet job-search sites saw a 51% rise in traffic from January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore Media Metrix, to 26.7million unique visitors. Among the many fee-for-service Web sites out there, at least three are attracting a significan