Read carefully the following excerpt on term-time holiday arguments in the UK, and then write your response in NO LESS THAN 200 words, in which you should:
·summarize the main message of the excerpt, and then
·comment on whether parents should take children out of school for holiday during term
time in order to save money.
You should support yourself with information from the excerpt.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
Term-time holidays will be banned
Parents are to be banned by Michael Gove, UK’s Education Secretary, from taking their children out of school to save money on holidays.
He is to abolish the right of head teacher to “authorise absence” from the classroom, which has been used to let families take term-time breaks, and will warn them they face fines for their children not being at school.
“Any time out of school has the potential to damage a child’s education,” a senior source at the Department for Education said this weekend. “That is why the government will end the distinction between authorised and unauthorised absence.”
“This is part of the government’s wider commitment to bring down truancy levels in our schools. There will also be stricter penalties for parents and schools.”
The tough measures on truancy are part of a wider attempt by Mr. Gove to make education more academically rigorous and to tackle a culture in the educational establishment which he believes has accepted “excuses for failure”.
Russell Hobby, the general secretary of the National Association of Head Teachers, said the measure would discourage parents from trying to put pressure on heads to sanction term time holiday. “ The high cost of holidays outside of term time is still an issue but ultimately a child’s education is more important than a holiday,” he said. —THE END—
A. The kind of people suitable for the trip.
B. Interests and hobbies of the speakers. C. Recruitment of people for the trip. D. Preparation for the trip to Mars. .....
Conversation Two
Write your response on ANSWER SHEET THREE.
—— THE END ——
ANSWER SHEET 1(反面)
PART II LISTENING COMPREHENSION What is Grit? My questions
Why isn’t I.Q. the only difference between students? What is the key to(1) ______? (1)______
My Research
investigation of all kinds of (2)______: including: (2)______
— West Point Military Academy —(3)
_______ (3)______
— private companies
My finding: grit as predictor of success Grit is(4) ______ for a very long-term goals (4)______
Grit is working hard for years to make (5)______ (5)______ Grit is living your life like a(6) _____ (6)______
My survey
High school juniors took grit questionnaires
(7)______ kids were more likely to graduate (7)_____ Grit-building
little is known about how to build grit in students data show grit is unrelated to (8)_______ (8)____ growth mindset is the belief that the ability to learn is (9) _______ (9)____ kids with grit believe failure is(10) ______ (10)____ Conclusion
We need to be gritty about getting our kinds grittier.
TEM 4 SCRIPT
PARTⅠDICTATION
Listen to the following passage. Altogether the passage will be read to you four times. During the first reading, which will be done at normal speed, listen and try to understand the meaning. For the second and third readings, the passage will be read sentence by sentence, or phrase by phrase, with intervals of 15 seconds. The last reading will be done at normal speed again and during this time you should check your work. You will then be given 1 minute to check through your work once more. Please write the whole passage on ANSWER SHEET ONE.
Now listen to the passage.
Are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? Do you react positively or negatively?
The answer may depend in part on whom you are around.
A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases.
For example, the researchers studied 103 college roommates.
They measured each roommate’s tendency towards negative thinking. It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious.
Students with a negative-thinking roommate became more depressed themselves. And students with more positive thinking roommates were more likely to become more positive as well.
The second and third readings. You should begin writing now.
The last reading.
Now, you have two minutes to check through your work. (a two-minute interval)
That is the end of PartⅠ Dictation.
2016年4级听写评分标准
THINK POSITIVE AND FEEL POSITIVE（标题忽略不计）
第一组：
Are you confident or insecure in a difficult situation? /Do you react positively or negatively? /The answer may depend in part on whom you're around. /A study found that negative thinking can be contagious in some cases./For example, the researchers studied 103 college roommates. / (45words) 第二组：
They measured each roommate’s tendency towards negative thinking. / It was found that thinking patterns can be contagious. /Students with a negative-thinking roommate became more depressed themselves. / And students with more positive thinking roommates / were more likely to become more positive as well.(43words)
1. 听写共分10小节：每节1分，每组评阅五句，每五句为一段。
2. 阅卷教师只需识别错误（小错误：0.25；大错误：0.5），并点击相关按钮，不用计算分值。 3. 每节最多扣一分。
4. 段内重复错误，仅扣一次。段内乱点标点符号，算标点符号错误。总计扣0.5分，算在最后一个评分框中。
5. 错误共分两类：小错误（minor mistakes）和大错误（major mistakes）。 A. 小错误
1） 大小写、标点符号错误（如果标点影响后句大小写，算前句的一个小错）：
第一组：or negatively? — or negatively.
第二组：tendency —tendency，；roommate’s —roommates；It—it 2） 冠词错误：
第一组：in a difficult —in the difficult;
第二组：with a negative-thinking roommate —with negative thinking roommate
B. 大错误：漏写、加词、造词、换词（冠词见互换、替代作小错计），移位，单复数，拼写，时态错误：
第一组：negative—negtive/nagetive；found that— found; contagious—contageous/cotagious; insecure—ensecure: college— colleage; in some cases— in some case; researchers—researcher/researches; insecure—in secure 扣1分
第二组：each—every; a negative-thinking roommate—negative thinking roommates; contagious —contageous/contigious; roommates — roomates/remains; measured— majored; towards—toward, can be — could be; were more — will be more扣1分
6. 下列情况不扣分：
第一组：you’re — you are
第二组：negative- thinking —negative thinking； positive thinking —positive-thinking：
themselves. And —themselves, and/ themselves and
PARTⅡ. LISTENING COMPREHENSION Section A Talk 【原文再现】
What Is Grit?
Good afternoon, everyone. (1) Today, I would like to talk about my research project concerning the key to success. I would like to start my topic with my own story. When I was 27 years old, I left for a demanding job: teaching seventh graders math in the New York City public schools. And like any teacher, I made quizzes and tests. I gave out homework assignments. When the work came back, I calculated grades. What struck me was that I.Q. was not the only difference between my best and my worst students. Some of my strongest performers did not have super I.Q. scores. Some of my smartest kids weren’t doing so well.
Then, I felt very interested in knowing the reason why the students’ math performance is not that closely related to their I.Q.
2016年英语专四真题word版
