2013年6月英语四级真题及答案

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2013 年 6 月英语四级真题及答案

Total score: 710 Total time allowed: 125 minutes

Part I Writing (多题多卷写作题 1) (30 minutes)

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay.

You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then

express your views on the importance of doing small things before undertaking

something big. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

Part I Writing (多题多卷写作题 2) (30 minutes)

Directions:

For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay.

You should start your essay with a brief description of the picture and then

express your views on the importance of reading literature. You should write at

least 120 words but no more than 180 words.

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.

Can Digital Textbook Truly Replace the Print Kind?

The shortcomings of traditional print edition textbooks are obvious: For

starters they’re heavy, with the average physics textbook weighing 3.6 pounds.

They’re also expensive, especially when you factor in the average college

student’s limited budget, typically costing hundreds of dollars every

semester.

But the worst part is that print version of textbooks are constantly

undergoing revisions. Many professors require that their students use only the

latest versions in the classroom, essentially rendering older texts unusable.

For students, it means they’re basically stuck with a four pound paper-weight

that they can’t sell back.

Which is why digital textbooks, if they live up to their promise, could

help ease many of these shortcomings. But till now, they’ve been something

like a

mirage

（幻影）in the distance, more like a

hazy

（模糊的）dream than an

actual reality. Imagine the promise: Carrying all your textbooks in a 1.3 pound

iPad? It sounds almost too good to be true.

But there are a few pilot schools already making the

transition

（过渡）over

to digital books. Universities like Cornell and Brown have jumped onboard. And

one medical program at the University of California, Irvine, gave their entire

class iPads with which to download textbooks just last year.

But not all were eager to jump aboard.

“People were tired of using the iPad textbook besides using it for

reading,” says Kalpit Shah, who will be going into his second year at

Irvine’s medical program this fall. “They weren’t using it as a source of

communication because they couldn’t read or write in it. So a third of the

people in my program were using the iPad in class to take notes, the other

third were using laptops and the last third were using paper and pencil.”

The reason it hasn’t caught on yet, he tells me, is that the functionality

of e-edition textbooks is incredibly limited, and some students just aren’t

motivated to learn new study behavior.

But a new application called Inkling might change all that. The company

just released an updated version last week, and it’ll be utilized in over 50

undergraduate and graduate classrooms this coming school year.

“Digital textbooks are not going to catch on,” says Inkling CEO Matt

Maclnnis as he’s giving me a

demo

（演示）over coffee. “What I mean by that is

the current perspective of the digital textbook is it’s an exact copy of the

print book. There’s Course Smart, etc., these guys who take any image of the

page and put it on a screen. If that’s how we’re defining digital textbooks,

there’s no hope of that becoming a mainstream product.”

He calls Inkling a platform for publishers to build rich multimedia content

from the ground up, with a heavy emphasis on real-world functionality. The

traditional textbook merely serves as a skeleton.

At first glance Inkling is an impressive experience. After

swiping

（敲

击）into the iPad

app

(应用软件 ), which you can get for free here, he opens up

a few different types of textbooks.

Up first is a chemistry book. The boot time is pretty fast, and he

navigates through

(浏览 ) a few chapters before swiping into a fully rendered

3D molecule that can be spun around to view its various building blocks.

“Publishers give us all of the source media, artwork, videos,” he says, “We

help them think through how to actually build something for this platform.”

Next he pulls up a music composition textbook, complete with playable

demos. It’s a learning experience that attacks you from multiple sensory

directions. It’s clear why this would be something a music major would love.

But the most exciting part about Inkling, to me, is its

notation

（批

注）system. Here’s how it works!

When you purchase a used print book, it comes with its previous owner’s

highlights and notes in the margins. It uses the experience of someone who

already went through the class to help improve your reading (how much you trust

each notation is obviously up to you).

But with lnkling, you can highlight a piece of content and make notes.

Here’s where things get interesting, though: If a particularly important

passage is highlighted by multiple lnkling users, that information is stored on

the cloud and is available for anyone reading the same textbook to come across.

That means users have access to notes from not only their classmates and

Facebook friends, but anyone who purchased the book across the country. The

best comments are then sorted democratically by a voting system, meaning that

your social learning experience is shared with the best and brightest thinkers.

As a bonus, professors can even

chime in

(插话 ) on discussions. They’ll

be able to answer the questions of students who are in their class directly via

the interactive book.

Of course, Inkling addresses several of the other shortcomings in

traditional print as well. Textbook versions are constanly updated, motivating

publishers by minimizing production costs (the big ones like McGraw-Hill are

already onboard). Furthermore, students will be able to purchase sections of

the text instead of buying the whole thing, with individual chapters costing as

little as $2.99.

There are, however, challenges.

“It takes efforts to build each book,” Maclnnis tells me. And it’s clear

why.

Each interactive textbook is a media-heavy experience built from the ground

up, and you can tell that it takes a respectable amount of manpower to put

together each one.

For now the app is also iPad-exclusive, and though a few of these

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