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2010年英语专业四级 短文1

Washington University in Saint Louis, Missouri, is a medium-sized university.

位于密苏里州圣路易斯的华盛顿大学是一所中等规模的大学。

It has 11,000 students. 12% of them were international students, mostly graduate students.

学校有11000名学生。其中12%是国际学生，大部分是研究生。

The University has schools for law, medicine, and social work.

这所大学有法学院、医学院和社会工作学院。

It also has a Business School, a School of Design and Visual Arts, and a School of Engineering and Applied Science.

它还有一所商学院、一所设计与视觉艺术学院和一所工程与应用科学学院。

But more than 60% of courses are taught Arts and Sciences program.

但是超过60%的课程是艺术和科学课程。

The new school year that begins this fall will cost about $50,000 for undergraduates.

从今年秋季开始的新学年，本科生将花费大约5万美元。

That includes 12 months of living expenses estimated at $20,000.

这包括12个月的生活费，估计为2万美元。

Tuition for the Master of Social Work programme, for example, will cost $27,000 in the coming year.

例如，社会工作硕士课程的学费将在明年达到2.7万美元。

The Master of Business Administration programme will cost about $38,000.

工商管理硕士课程的费用约为3.8万美元。

The university offers financial assistance to international students, including first-year students, but says its resources are limited.

该校向包括一年级学生在内的国际学生提供经济援助，但表示其资源有限。

Scholarships are available. The university also offers a monthly payment plan to spread out the cost of tuition.

奖学金是可用的。该大学还提供每月支付计划，以分摊学费。

It offers loan programmes. International students in the United States generally cannot receive federal students loans.

它提供贷款项目。在美国的国际学生通常不能获得联邦学生贷款。

But they may be able to lake out private loans, as many American students do.

但他们可能会像许多美国学生那样，把私人贷款抽走。

Washington University in Saint Louis was named Eliot Seminary when it opened in 1853.

圣路易斯华盛顿大学在1853年成立时命名为艾略特学院。

Later,the name was changed to honor the first American president George Washington.

后来，为了纪念美国第一任总统乔治·华盛顿，这个名字更改了。

2010年英语专业四级 短文2

A new study from the University of New South Wales has discovered that during the working week, Australian fathers only spend an average of just over a minute each day alone with their children.

新南威尔士大学的一项新研究发现，在工作周，澳大利亚的父亲平均每天和孩子单独相处的时间只有一分多钟。

Australian mothers, on the other hand, spend three hours a week purely looking after their children,

另一方面，澳大利亚的母亲们则每周花三个小时来照顾孩子，

a much greater disparity than in other countries like America, Denmark, Italy and France, where couples divide their child-care more evenly.

与美国、丹麦、意大利和法国等其他国家相比，这一差距要大得多，这些国家的夫妻双方照顾孩子的时间差不多一样。

According to the author of the study, traditionally, Australian fathers appear to like the fun aspects of parenthood,

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