(总分100,考试时间130分钟)
WRITING
1. 1.The following chart shows the negative influences on left-behind children caused by parents' absence from home. Look at the following picture carefully and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should start with a brief description of the picture, explain its implied meaning, and give your view on the issue.
2020英语四级考试时间
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization, language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
2. 2.Nowadays, the runaway medical costs impose pressure on many people. Look at the following picture carefully and write your response in about 200 words, in which you should start with a brief description of the picture, explain its implied meaning, and give your view on the issue.
Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization, language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
3. 3.Read carefully the following excerpt on mobile phones in the classroom 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 students should use mobile phones in the classroom.
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.
A Teaching Tool or a Distraction?
After 20 years of teaching, Miriam Morgenstern is calling it quits this month. The Lowell High School history and ESL teacher's reason to leave the classroom is her frustration with students and their cell phones. The texting, tweeting, and Snapchatting during class time are "an incredible distraction, and makes it much more difficult to teach," she said. "It's pretty hard to compete with a very funny YouTube video."
It is the most vexing issue of the digital age for teachers and administrators: What to do about students' cell phones? Some maintain that smartphones and other devices in schools are crucial to **petitive in a global market, while others insist that phones and tablets distract students, compromising their learning and focus.
"You'll get kids saying, 'I'll look something up for English, and while I'm here let me quickl
y check my Instagram or Twitter feed.' And then it's, 'Oh, I never realized this girl said that to me,' and now they're distracted and not really engaged with their lesson plan," said Joni Siani, a Braintree psychologist and author of "Celling Your Soul: No App for Life," about how digital media affect young people.
Educators don't agree on much when it comes to digital devices in classrooms, especially since the debate over cell phones is part of a broader conversation about a cultural shift underway in classrooms—a move away from the traditional model of teachers imparting information to students, to one where students actively participate in their own learning, using mobile devices to access the Web, educational apps, and other tools.
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