【正文】 2013年6月份四級考試真題（附帶答案解析及聽力原文） 考試時間安排：一般在6月18日和12月17日左右大學英語四級考試流程 172。8：509：00試音時間172。9：009：10播放考場指令，發(fā)放作文考卷 172。9：10取下耳機，開始作文考試 172。9：35發(fā)放含有快速閱讀的試題冊（但9：40才允許開始做） 172。 9：409：55做快速閱讀 172。9：5510：00收答題卡一（即作文和快速閱讀） 172。9：5510：00重新戴上耳機，試音尋臺，準備聽力考試 172。 10：00開始聽力考試，電臺開始放音 172。聽力結束后完成剩余考項。 172。11：20全部考試結束。Part ⅠWriting (30minutes)Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay entitled Excessive Packaging following the outline given below. You should write at least 120 words but no more than 180 words.On Excessive PackagingPart Ⅱ Reading Comprehension(Skimming and Scanning)(15minutes)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 17,choose the best answer from the four choices marked A)，B)，C）and D). For questions 810,plete the sentences with the information given in the passage.Small Schools RisingThis year’s list of the top 100 high schools shows that today, those with fewer students are flourishing.Fifty years ago, they were the latest thing in educational reform: big, modern, suburban high schools with students counted in the thousands. As baby boomers(二戰(zhàn)后嬰兒潮時期出生的人) came of highschool age, big schools promised economic efficiency. A greater choice of courses, and, of course, better football teams. Only years later did we understand the tradeoffs this involved: the creation of excessive bureaucracies(官僚機構)，the difficulty of forging personal connections between teachers and scores began dropping in 1963。today,on average,30% of students do not plete high school in four years, a figure that rises to 50% in poor urban neighborhoods. While the emphasis on teaching to higher, testdriven standards as set in No Child Left Behind resulted in significantly better performance in elementary(and some middle)schools, high schools for a variety of reasons seemed to have made little progress.Size isn’t everything, but it does matter, and the past decade has seen a noticeable countertrend toward smaller schools. This has been due ,in part ,to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, which has invested $ billion in American high schools, helping to open about 1,000 small schoolsmost of them with about 400 kids each with an average enrollment of only 150 per grade, About 500 more are on the drawing board. Districts all over the country are taking notice, along with mayors in cities like New York, Chicago and San Diego. The movement includes independent public charter schools, such as BASIS in Tucson, with only 120 highschoolers and 18 graduates this year. It embraces districtsanctioned magnet schools, such as the Talented and Gifted School, with 198 students, and the Science and Engineering Magnet,with383,which share a building in Dallas, as well as the City Honors School in Buffalo, ., which grew out of volunteer evening seminars for students. And it includes alternative schools with students selected by lottery(抽簽)，such as HB Woodlawn in Arlington, Va. And most noticeable of all, there is the phenomenon of large urban and suburban high schools that have split up into smaller units ofa few hundred, generally housed in the same grounds that once boasted thousands of students all marching to the same band.Hillsdale High School in San Mateo, Calif, is one of those, ranking —among the top 2% in the country—on Newsweek’s annual ranking of America’s top high schools. The success of small schools is apparent in the listings. Ten years ago, when the first Newsweek list based on collegelevel test participation was published, only three of the top 100 schools had graduating Classes smaller than 100 students. This year there are 22. Nearly 250 schools on the full ,News