Question

In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently, 1. side effects are also enormous.

To begin 2. , examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged 3. examination results, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect is 4. examinations encourage bad study habits. As 5. examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather 6. to think creatively.

In fact, few 7. us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students’ academic development. If that is the case, 8. cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?

Answer 1

1.its

2.with

3.by/from

4.that

5.the

6.than

7.of

8.why

【解析】

試題分析：考試是衡量一個(gè)學(xué)生成敗的重要手段。但是它也有缺點(diǎn)。1. 考試降低教學(xué)的標(biāo)準(zhǔn)；2. 考試鼓勵(lì)不良的學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣；事實(shí)上，考試并沒(méi)有有助于學(xué)生的學(xué)業(yè)進(jìn)步，那為什么不進(jìn)行改革來(lái)代替它呢？

1.its。

2.to begin with。

3.judge...by/from根據(jù)......來(lái)判斷。

4.最不可取的是考試鼓勵(lì)不良的學(xué)習(xí)習(xí)慣。is 后是that引導(dǎo)的表語(yǔ)從句，that 在從句中只起到連接作用。

5.因?yàn)榭荚嚪謹(jǐn)?shù)是衡量一個(gè)學(xué)生學(xué)習(xí)成績(jī)的唯一標(biāo)準(zhǔn)，這里用the 表特指。

6.學(xué)生被迫死記硬背而不是創(chuàng)造性地思考。rather than而不是。

7.事實(shí)上，沒(méi)有幾個(gè)人承認(rèn)考試能對(duì)學(xué)生的學(xué)業(yè)發(fā)展的貢獻(xiàn)什么重要的東西。few of us沒(méi)有幾個(gè)人。

8.如果是這樣，我們?yōu)槭裁床荒苓M(jìn)行更改并制定比考試更有效和可靠的東西呢？why為什么。

考點(diǎn)：社會(huì)類短文閱讀。