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1、大学英语四级试卷Part I Writing (30 minutes) Directions: For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a short essay on the topic “Education: Examination-Oriented or Quality-Oriented”. You should write at least 120 words following the outline given below in Chinese: 1. 应试教育现状及其原因; 2. 素质教育的优点; 3. 你的观点。Pa
2、rt II Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning) (15 minutes) Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly. 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 informatio
3、n given in the passage. Selling Expertise on the Internet for Extra Cash Teresa Estes, a licensed mental-health counselor, watched as business at her private practice decreased last year. Then the single mother turned to her keyboard to boost her income. Ms. Estes applied to become an “expert” on Li
4、vePerson Inc., a Web site where clients pay for online chat time with professionals and advisers of all fields. For $1.89 a minute a rate she set the 39-year-old from Marianna, Fla., dispenses advice to clients around the globe. She spends about four hours a day online, often at night, when her daug
5、hter has gone to bed. “It was the economy,” she says of her move to take her skills online. “Live Person is more profitable than my private practice.” Ms. Estes had charged her private clients up to $75 an hour. As the recession deepens, a small but growing number of people are taking their skills o
6、nline, offering expertise or performing specified tasks for a fee. Labor-at-the-keyboard sites are gaining popularity as people increasingly turn to the Web in search of work. Internet job-search sites saw a 51% rise in traffic from January 2008 to January 2009, according to comScore Media Metrix, t
7、o 26.7 million unique visitors. Among the many fee-for-service Web sites out there, at least three are attracting a significant number of users though consumers should exercise a healthy degree of skepticism when consulting any of these sites. Live Person seeks out experts on a slew of topics, inclu
8、ding mental health, financial services, shopping and fashion, as well as psychics and spiritual advisers. Mechanical Turk, a Web service run by A Inc., pays workers to perform tasks, such as cataloging products online. Associated Content pays contributors to write articles on a wide range of subject
9、s, from organic flower gardening to how to apply for financial aid. Live Person went public in 2001, and the current version of the site was launched in late 2007. Today, the site has 30,000 registered experts, attracting an average of 100,000 people a year who pay for the offered services, says Chi
10、ef Executive Officer Robert LoCascio. Roughly 3,500 people have made contributing to the site their full-time job, he says. Live Person says it vets contributors qualifications, such as medical licenses or financial certification, through a third party, and relies heavily on its community reviews. S
11、ome 200 people a day apply to be Live Person experts, up from 120 a year ago, says Mr. LoCascio. Once cleared, advisers work with clients on a cost-per-minute basis set by the adviser. The site takes a commission of between 30% and 35%. Associated Content, by contrast, reviews submissions in house a
12、nd then decides how much to pay for them. The site, which specializes in how-to pieces and feature stories on news topics, had 237,000 registered contributors and more than one million content pieces as of February, both about double from the same month a year ago. After posting the content, the sit
13、e sells advertisements against it and distributes it to other companies, such as online shoe retailer Zappos, which use the content on their own Web sites. If Associated Content accepts a submission (it says it rejects about 25% of them), the author gets between $5 and $30, plus $1.50 for each 1,000
14、 page views. An ability to write “search-engine-optimized” content, an industry term for generating good Google results, helps, says site founder Luke Beatty. People are not only looking for payment but also establishing their credentials “as somebody with experience”, he says. Writing about a speci
15、fic profession, such as law or real estate, helps raise a persons profile online, enhancing his job searches, says Mr. Beatty. Sabah Karimi, a 26-year-old from Orlando, Fla., left a career in marketing to become a full-time freelance writer and now spends between 8 and 10 hours a week writing for As
16、sociated Content. She has been at it for about three years and says she earns roughly $1,000 a month from her past and current submissions. Ms. Karimi cautions newcomers to Associated Content that it takes time to build up earnings. She says she learned how to write articles that would bring traffic and often looks for newsy ideas that will attract readers. Mechanical Turk, by contrast, is based on “crowd sourcing”, or breaking a task into lots of tiny pieces and gi
