大学英语四级考试试题及答案解析(四十九)
一、Writing （本大题1小题．每题106.0分，共106.0分。 For this part, you are allowed thirty minutes to write a composition . You should write at least 100 words, and base your composition on the outline (given in Chinese) below: ） 第1题
You're allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Paying Kids for Chores? by commenting on this social phenomenon. You'd write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.
Paying Kids for Chores?
【正确答案】： 答案:
Paying Kids for Chores?
Many parents pay their children for doing chores at home nowadays. Especially in big cities, some parents will give their kids allowances if they do such things as washing the clothes, cleaning the morn, setting the table, or preparing simple food for the family.
Should parents pay their kids for doing housework? Different people may have different opinions. Some people believe it's proper for parents to pay kids for housework since it will motivate children to do more things around the house. It also helps children learn about money and how it works. But people against this approach hold that children should do routine housework for free. Housework is part of family life, and every family member should share the responsibility to do it. Personally, I'm not in favor of this practice. Paying kids for chores may send the wrong message : they are entitled for everything parents provide for them while the contributions they make to the family have to be paid for, which is harmful for their personality development and will stimulate their laziness. [本题分数]： 106.0 分 【答案解析】
[写作要点] 虽然没有提纲提示，对题目加以判断可知考生应该撰写一篇议论文。考生应在心目中自己列出提纲，根据以往写作经验，本文写作重点在于分析人们对“付钱让孩子干家务”这一现象褒贬不一的看法，然后提出自己的观点。
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[结构安排] 第一段：简要介绍当前有些父母付钱让孩子干家务这一社会现象。
第二段：阐述分析人们对此现象褒贬不一的看法。 第三段：表明自己的观点。 点评
1．结构闪光点
全文层次分明，结构严谨。 2．语言闪光点 (1)chore家务杂事 (2)nowadays如今
(3)allowance津贴，补助
(4)set the table摆饭桌，摆餐具 (5)proper适当的，正确的
(6)motivate sb. to do sth.激励某人做某事 (7)approach方法，方式 (8)hold支持，相信
(9)routine housework日常家务 (10)be in favor of赞同 (11)practice实践，做法
(12)be entitled for对……有权利的 (13)be harmful for对……有害的
二、Cloze（共20小题,共70.0分）There are 20 blanks in the following passage. For each blank there are four choices marked [A], [B], [C] and [D] on the right side of the paper. You should choose the ONE that best fits into the passage. Then mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. 第1题
Reading involves looking at graphic symbols and formulating mentally the sounds and ideas they represent. Concepts of reading have changed (1) over the centuries. During the 1950's and 1960's especially, increased attention has been devoted to (2) the reading process. (3) specialists agree that reading (4) a complex organization of higher mental (5) , they disagree (6) the exact nature of the process. Some experts, who regard language primarily as a code using symbols to represent sounds, (7) reading as simply the decoding of symbols into the sounds they stand (8) .
These authorities (9) that meaning, being concerned with thinking, must be taught independently of the decoding process. Others maintain that reading is (10) related to thinking, and that a child who pronounces sounds without (11) their meaning is not truly reading. The reader, (12) some, is not just a person with a theoretical ability to read but one who (13) reads.
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2014年大学英语四级考试试题及答案解析(四十九)
