4 级冲刺试题 （ 三 ）# / 24Part I四级冲刺试题（三）Writing(30 minutes)文档来Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic of On Volunteer. You should write at least 120 words according to the outline given below. 自于网络搜索1. 现在越来越多的人加入志愿者的队伍2. 志愿者的意义3. 我的看法 Part II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) 文档来自于网络搜索 Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet1. For questions 1- 7, choose the best answer from the four文档来choices marked A), B), C) and D). For questions 8 - 10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.自于网络搜索Parents Homework: Find Perfect Teachers for KidsTomi Hall did what she could to lobby for the best teachers for her two children, making her case this spring in letters to the principal. Then all she could do was wait for news of their classroom assignments and it s been torturing. The Aurora mom knows her efforts carry no guarantees. One year her son didn t get the teacher Hall had hoped for, and he struggled for months with one whose relaxed style came across to him as uncaring. “Granted, I know its just kindergarten, ” saidHall, 39.“But.a teacher can make or break you. ”文档来自于网络搜索In the next few weeks, manyfamilies will rip open notification letters or go to school to see class lists posted on the front door. For parents accustomed to directing nearly every aspect of their child s early learning it can be difficult to have little voice in teacher selection a decision they view asletter or meet child s early文档来自于网络搜critical. Somespend hours crafting the perfect with the principal to makean argument. For their learning, parents regard that teacher is critical.索Principals, meanwhile, struggle to create balanced classrooms while juggling （ 同时应付 ） individual requests. They say they want input but find it increasingly necessary to discourage parents from asking for a specific teacher. Administrators dont want the selection process to bea popularity contest in part because what makesa teacher popular mayhave nothing to do with a particular childs educational needs. 文档来自于网络 搜索board.match.“Im bright enough to realize parents talk at soccer fields and baseball fields, but you have to realize your experience with Teacher A may be very different than someone else Teacher A, ” said Scott Meek, the new principal at Northbrook Junior High School who is making classroom assignments this summerfor 600 students with the help of an office display He asks parents to focus their input on the student and his or her learning style and trust the school to makethe right文档来自于网络搜索Some students also recognize that certain teachers bring out the best in them.“I need one of those strict kinds ofteach ers, ” said Hall s daughter Tori, 12, who is entering 7th grade. “WhenI get a not -so- strict teacher, I think they dontIllreally care about me. I really dont want a bad teacher. get lower grades.”文档来自于网络搜索“ - in ”When Chaya Fish, 30, of West Rogers Park taught at a private school in New York, she said, it was obvious who the teachers were. She said she automatically joined them after the principal s son landed in her classroom.“It wasridiculous, ” said Fish.“The other teacher was probably精find督better than me . It was how you dressed, how you talked ” that often determined parental favor. 文档来自于网络搜索 Teachers said the most vocal parents often get their way so that all parties involved can avoid a difficult school year. But educators warn that parents who get what they wish for may be sorry afterward.“A lot of times when people orchestrate （心安排） who they think their child is best suited for, they they made a mistake, ” said Mark Friedman, superintendent （学） for Libertyville Elementary School District 70.“I havemanyparents say later, I dont knowwhy I did this. It isn t working out this year. ” Friedman said he assures parents their comments will be considered but never guarantees a specific teacher. In fact, he tells them that if they do request a teacher and later regret that choice,“you have no one toblame but yourself.”文档来自于网络搜索Some parents said they ve learned their lesson about trying to guess which teacher would be best. Jamie Thompson said she was initially concerned when her daughter was assigned to a strict 1st-grade teacher. She was aware other parents had lobbied for a different person, who had a more casual style. “At the end, it turned out that the other class was asking, Whyisn t my child learning that? ” said Thompson, 36, of Arlington Heights. “Thats why I dont want to interfere too much.”文档来自于网络搜索Yet parents have different reasons for requesting classes, and some have nothing to do with the teacher, said Michelle Van Every, 36, of Deerfield. She and other mothers once requested that their children not be placed in a classroom wi