TEM4 Model Test 2
Reading and Writing
Reading Comprehension
Multiple-choice Questions
Check Your Answers
41-45 CBBBA
46-50 ACACB
a very strong interest in or love for someone or
something, that is not natural or healthy
Reading Comprehension
what do
you thinkQuestions
of/about somebody/something?
Short
Answer
(=used to ask someone for their opinion)
Check Your Answers
51. What is the author’s book about?
Helping women learn how to make different dating choices.
52. What is the fixation about human existence?
Imaging a world without other people.
53. What does the author think of the symbols of our civilization?
They would be nothing if human beings disappeared.
54. How will the mindless people be dealt with who forget to pay
what they buy?
It is up to the store manager.
55. What does the right half of most people’s brain deal with?
Pictures, patterns and forms.
简答题答题注意事项：
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确保答案形式符合提问的方式
避免常见的语言形式错误，如拼写、标点符
号、大小写、主谓一致、时态等方面的错误，
同时做到答案与原文或问题对等
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如果文章中有现成答案，可照抄，勿抄错或
漏抄。
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如果对正确答案是什么有把握，回答可简洁
明了；如无把握，请在十词之内尽量详细回答
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Correct the mistakes in your answers.
1. It’s about help women how to make different dating
choice.
2. Teaching women how to make different choices feels
good.
3. Imagining the world emptied everybody else.
4. The author thinks they are nothing.
5. It’s nothing, for it will turn to dust without human.
6. It depends on the store manager.
7. They are liable to prosecution and decided by store
manager.
8. They are liable to prosecution and sent for the police.
9. Sending for the police or in the hands of manager.
10. It’s the storekeeper’s decision.
11.It deals with something about art and patterns.
12.The right half works on pictures, patterns and form
Mistakes in your answers:
1. It’s about help women how to make different
dating choice.
2. Teaching women how to make different
choices feels good. (s.s.)
3. Imagining the world emptied everybody else.
4. The author thinks they are nothing.
5. It’s nothing, for it will turn to dust without
human.
6. It depends on the store manager.
7. They are liable to prosecution and decided
by store manager. (s.s.)
8. They are liable to prosecution and sent for
the police.
9. Sending for the police or in the hands of
manager.
10. It’s the storekeeper’s decision.
11.It deals with something about art and
patterns.
12.The right half works on pictures, patterns
and form
be up to somebody
1 used to say that someone can decide about
something:
You can pay weekly or monthly—it's up to you.
2 used to say that someone is responsible for a
particular duty:
It's up to the travel companies to warn customers of
any possible dangers.
depend on/upon somebody/something
1 if something depends on something else, it is
directly affected or decided by that thing:
The length of time spent exercising depends on the
sport you are training for.
Choosing the right bike depends on what you want to
use it for.
2 to need the support, help, or existence of someone or
something in order to exist, be healthy, be
successful etc [= rely on]:
The country depends heavily on its tourist trade.
I'm depending on you to tell me everything.
3 to trust or have confidence in someone or something
You can depend on Jane - she always keeps her
promises.
Writing
Should we continue encouraging attending
public schools or promoting homeschooling? This
has been an intensely discussed question for years.
The following are the supporters’ and opponents’
opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both
sides and write your response in about 200 words, in
which you should first summarize briefly the
opinions from both sides and give your view on the
issue.
Notice the key words and expressions that are
already given:
Should we continue encouraging attending
public schools or promoting homeschooling? This
has been an intensely discussed question for years.
The following are the supporters’ and opponents’
opinions. Read carefully the opinions from both
sides and write your response in about 200 words, in
which you should first summarize briefly the
opinions from both sides and give your view on the
issue.
A Sample
Public School Is Still the Top Choice
Opinion is divided on education method, which has long
been a heatedly discussed issue. Some prefer public schools
as they create more favorable learning environments,
allowing children to cultivate various skills by exposing them
to peers of different backgrounds, while others embrace
homeschooling, holding that the teacher, often played by the
parent, can give individual attention to the children and use
customized teaching methods to make learning an interesting
experience.
As far as I am concerned, public schooling is still the top
choice. For one thing, public schools are often equipped with
first-class facilities, well-trained teachers and diversified
courses, enabling children to learn happily in a comfortable
environment and making all-round development possible. For
another, as members of a group, children can develop skills
of communication and cooperation as well as establish good
personal relationships so that they tend to better adapt to
new environments and get along well with others in future.
However, public schooling also has its downsides—it is often
complained that public schools are lacking in flexibility and
peer pressure in fierce competition is detrimental to
children’s mental health.
Therefore, it is evident that public schools are well worth
promoting. Without public schools, all-round development of
children would be only a rosy dream. But they also need
better adaptability. Only by innovating teaching methodology
and perfecting management can public schools
accommodate individual needs for education.
Advantages of attending public schools
Public schools provide children with many advantages both inside and outside the classroom. They
generally have a range of children from a wide variety of
backgrounds. This provides an opportunity for children to
learn to negotiate with others, accepting and challenging
other points of view, and learning to understand people
with diverse backgrounds and values. The funding from
the government allows public schools to offer an array of
advanced classes in the arts, technology studies and the
sciences, any and all of which might be difficult to provide
by homeschooling parents who do not have specialized
training. Public schools also expose students to a variety
of teachers, which gives them an opportunity to learn from
diverse pedagogies.
Advantages of homeschooling
Homeschooling has benefits that can hardly be realized
in public schools. One of the biggest advantages of
homeschooling is the fact that the teacher, the parent, can
give individual attention to the child. Homeschooled
children often have a better understanding of lessons and
cover more materials than their peers. In a familiar setting,
children are more likely to actively participate in their
lessons. Because homeschooled children do not have set
hours, they can work at their own pace at any point during
the day. Moreover, homeschooled children do not grow up
with the pressure of trying to be like everyone else in order
to fit in, so they are not so easily influenced by their peers.
Types of common mistakes:
 no title
 a detailed summary
 no concluding paragraph
 mistakes in high-frequency words and expressions.
 “hasty” expressions
 mixed constructions
 false parallelism
 mistakes in sentence structures
 faulty shift in person and number, in verb tense, and
in mood or sentence type
 modifiers that do not make sense
The End