2011年12月英语四级考试密押卷及答案(1)

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洛基英语，免费体验全部在线一对一课程：/wenkxd.htm（报名网址）Part I Writing (30 minutes)

Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Paying Kids for Chores? You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below.

1. 现在有不少家长付钱让孩子做家务

2. 有人对此赞成，也有人表示反对

3. 我的看法

Paying Kids for Chores?

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 on Answer Sheet 1. 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 in the passage.

Universities must deal better with complaints

With student complaints at a record high, universities will have to raise their game once tuition fees rise

Two universities that have broken official rules for dealing with student complaints are named today in the independent adjudicator’s (仲裁人) annual report. The two, Southampton and Westminster, are the first to be exposed in this way —yet another sign of the new era in which universities are expected to be more accountable (负责) to students who expect to be treated as customers.

The Office of the Independent Adjudicator (OIA), which reviews complaints when students have exhausted their university’s procedures, also reports a record rise in the number of cases. Last year the office received 1,341 complaints against universities in England and Wales, the highest number ever and an unprecedented (空前的) rise of one-third on the year before.

As the adjudicator himself, Rob Behrens, points out, 1,341 complaints represents just 0.05% of higher education students, and 53% of those were not justified. But, he also observes, the proportion of justified and partly justified complaints has grown for the first time in several years. He predicts the increase in complaints will continue. “It’s to be expected where you have rising tuition fees, where students are being invited to behave like consumers and where the labour market is difficult so students will do what they can to ensure they qualify.”

He says his decision to expose the universities of Southampton and Westminster is not “naming and shaming, with all the associations of moral censure that term implies”. He was, he explains, simply following OIA rules —something those two institutions failed to do.

Westminster fell short in its handling of two complaints. One was from a student who argued a disability hadn’t been properly taken into account. The adjudicator agreed. The other student claimed that an exam question and its marking scheme had