2009年12月大学英语四级考试模拟试题(一)

　　57. What do we learn from the first paragraph?

　　A) 30,000 pupils started secondary school with poor math skills.

　　B) MPs insist more improvements should be made under Labor.

　　C) Young people need medical lessons to get a job.

　　D) Half of English schools were not good enough.

　　58. According to the passage, what happened in 2006?

　　A) 21% of pupils didn’t meet the Government’s expected standard.

　　B) The target set for 2006 was 87 percent.

　　C) ￡2.3 billion was spent on math teaching.

　　D) The total budget for primary teaching and support staff was ￡5 billion in 2006.

　　59. What will people probably do to improve math education in England?

　　A) Spend money on training specialist math teachers.

　　B) Hire a math specialist for every primary school.

　　C) Allow pupils to have more mathematical “play”.

　　D) Spend more time on math education.

　　60. What do Nick Gibb’s words mean?

　　A) The British government should put more money into math education.

　　B) Britain is falling behind in the international knowledge competition.

　　C) The British government should learn from other countries’ failures.

　　D) The British government should change their teaching methods every few years.

　　61. What’s the passage mainly talking about?

　　A) There aren’t enough math teachers in British primary schools.

　　B) The British government didn’t spend enough money on math education.

　　C) British pupils are not good at math.

　　D) Math lessons in British primary schools need to be improved.