The English test will be removed from China’s college entrance exam by 2020, according to details of exam and admission reform revealed by the Ministry of Education. The national college exam, known as the “Gaokao” has been used to evaluate Chinese students for three decades. The Ministry of Education has worked out a plan for reforming exams and enrollment. The Ministry will solicit(征求) public opinions before its release. Instead, tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to ease study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.
The plan and suggestion for its implementation(實施) will be announced in the first half of next year. It will be piloted in selected provinces and cities and promoted nationwide from 2017. A new exam and admission system will be established by 2020, according to the education ministry.
The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would reduce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.
“The reform shows China is learning from the West to give students more test-taking chances. But more chances might become more of a burden since Chinese students are likely to repeat the test until they get the highest score,” said Cai Jigang, a professor at Fudan University’s College of Foreign Languages and Literature and chairman of the Shanghai Advisory Committee for College English Teaching at Tertiary level.
Yu Lizhong, chancellor of New York University Shanghai, where classes are in English and students are required to have a high standard of English, said the most important aspect of the reform lay in what to test and how to test.
“As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the college entrance exam,” Yu said. “In a way, English is even more important than before since the test would only serve as reference, while every college and university, even every major, can have different requirements of a student’s English skills under a diverse evaluation system.”
Yu said some students will have their study pressure reduced if the major they choose doesn’t need excellent English while others still need to study hard if they want to be among the best students.
The education ministry said the reform would not affect students attending the college entrance exam over the next three years.
小題1:What can we learn from the first paragraph?
A．English will become less and less important in the stage of compulsory education.
B．It has been 30 years since English became one subject of national college entrance exam.
C．China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system is unacceptable at all.
D．The system that tests are held several times does more good than once-in-a-lifetime exam system.
小題2:According to the passage, Shanghai educators and parents argue that________.
A．the new exam and admission system will make no difference.
B．English shouldn’t be removed from China’s college entrance exam.
C．the reform may accomplish the very opposite.
D．Western educational system does not apply to China.
小題3:What does the passage try to express in the underlined sentence?
A．Students needn’t lay a good foundation during the period of high school.
B．Whether students should study English hard may depend on their major.
C．Students can constantly struggle for perfection only in their major.
D．English must be close to full mark.
小題4:What’s the purpose of the passage?
A．To advise students not to devote themselves to English.
B．To call on Education Department to remove English from “Gaokao”.
C．To support the act of Ministry of Education
D．To encourage students to do as they have planned.

小題1:D
小題2:C
小題3:B
小題4:D

試題分析：文章介紹了高考中英語考試的改革方案，和不同的人包括家長，教育工作者對這項改革的不同看法，但是文章作者認(rèn)為是否認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)英語取決于學(xué)生的專業(yè)。
小題1:推理題：從第一段的句子：Instead, tests will be held several times a year to allow students to choose when and how often they sit the exam so as to alleviate study pressure and change China’s once-in-a-lifetime exam system.可以推斷出一年多次考試的系統(tǒng)要比一次考試有更多的好處，選D
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)題：從文章第三段的句子：The decision has aroused a heated discussion among Shanghai educators and parents who doubted the reform would reduce the burden of learning English or if the substitute test could reflect a student’s English skills and help students learn English better.可知上海的父母和教育工作者認(rèn)為這個改革實現(xiàn)的結(jié)果可能正相反，選C
小題3:句意理解題：這句話的意思是如果一個學(xué)生的專業(yè)不需要很好的英語就可以減輕壓力，而如果想成為最優(yōu)秀的學(xué)生還是需要認(rèn)真學(xué)習(xí)英語的�？删褪钦f：“是否學(xué)生應(yīng)該學(xué)習(xí)英語取決于他們的專業(yè)”，選B
小題4:寫作意圖題：從文章倒數(shù)第三段的句子：“ As far as I see, the reform doesn’t mean English is no longer important for Chinese students after it will be excluded from the unified college entrance exam,” 英語考試改革不意味著英語就不重要了，所以可知作者寫這篇文章是為了鼓勵學(xué)生按照自己計劃的去做，選D
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