• 2021-04-14
    智慧职教: We might marvel at the progress made in every field of study, but the methods of testing a person's knowledge and ability remain as primitive as ever they were. It really is extraordinary that after all these years, educationists have still failed to device anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. For all the pious claim that examinations text what you know, it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the knack of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person's true ability and aptitude. As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success of failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. It doesn't matter that you weren't feeling very well, or that your mother died. Little things like that don't count: the exam goes on. No one can give of his best when he is in mortal terror, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do. The moment a child begins school, he enters a world of vicious competition where success and failure are clearly defined and measured. Can we wonder at the increasing number of 'drop-outs': young people who are written off as utter failures before they have even embarked on a career? Can we be surprised at the suicide rate among students? A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system does anything but that. What has to be learnt is rigidly laid down by a syllabus, so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, but to restrict his reading; they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge, but induce cramming. They lower the standards of teaching, for they deprive the teacher of all freedoms. Teachers themselves are often judged by examination results and instead of teaching their subjects, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques which they despise. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated; they are the best trained in the technique of working under duress. The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry; they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled s in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight. After a judge's decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: 'I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire.'
  • Why does the author mention court?For comparison.According to the author, the most important of a good education isto train students to think on their own.The fate of students is decided byexaminations.The author's attitude toward examinations iscritical.The main idea of this passage isexaminations exert a pernicious influence on education.
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      W: What can I do for youM: I’d like to exchange this sweater.W: What seems to be the matterM: Well, you see I got this as a birthday present, but it’s the wrong size, and what’s more, I really don’t like the color.W: Do you have the receiptM: Yes.W: Can I have a look at it, pleaseM: Certainly. Why does the man want to exchange the sweater() A: It doesn’t fit him and the color isn’t satisfactory. B: It is a birthday present from his friend. C: He has got the receipt.

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      Change your study habits. Have you sometimes found the______ to ______ when you didn't study well ______ for a test? Try changing your study habit. Study with a friend or have your ______ help. Do not ______ all your studying into the last ______ , and get a good night's ______ before a test.______ , make practice test so you can ______ on those ______ in which you need the most work.

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      根据录音内容填空: A: Sally, our first question today is from Andy. He says, “I’ve just started learning English. My problem is that I’m too (1)__________ to speak. My grammar is not very good, so I (2)__________ saying the wrong thing.” Have you got any advice for Andy? B: OK. Well, the first thing is I think Andy should (3)__________. A: Speaking to himself? I’m not sure that’s a good idea. B: I know it sounds silly, but talking to yourself in a (4)__________ is a really good way to practice. You don’t have to feel (5)__________, because nobody can hear you. You can talk to yourself about anything you like – what you had for breakfast, where you’re going for the weekend – anything. And the more you do it, the more you will (6)__________ hearing your own voice and your (7)__________, so you won’t feel so frightened in the classroom. Andy should try it. A: Hm, I suppose so. Anything else? What about his (8)__________? B: He has only just started learning English, so he is going to make lots of mistakes, but that’s not a problem. That’s how he’ll learn. Andy shouldn’t (9)__________. A: You’re right. So Andy, try talking to yourself, and don’t worry about making mistakes.

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      1. I am one of the(1) of Designing Your Life: How to Live a Well-lived Joyful Life. That’s (2) the class we Stanford teachers called Designing Your Life. 2. So one of the biggest(3) in the class is the odyssey plan. People (4) three completely different plans for their life. 3. And he had one(5) where he just described the period of time between about 20 and 35 as your odyssey years, the years when you discover and (6) who you gonna be, you know, as or for one grown-up. 4. So we use the phrase, odyssey years, to describe(7) the ten years between about 22 and 32, or 20 to 35 that ten-to-fifteen-year period. 5. It is really a (8) time in any young person’s life. And we like the idea of an odyssey. It is sort of journey, you know, a mystical journey through all these(9) . 6. And that is when we have, you know, more stages in our life, so we have more time to do this kind of(10) . So it’s really a(11) time in a young person’s life.

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      Section C 40% Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks with the exact words you have just heard. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written. Section C.wav We can make mistakes at any age. Some mistakes we make are about money. But most mistakes are about people. “Did Jerry really care when I (1)_____ with Helen?”“When I got that great job, did Jim really feel good about it, as a friend? Or did he (2)_____ my luck?” When we look back, doubts like these can make us feel bad. But when we look back, It’s too late. Why do we go wrong about our friends – or our enemies? Sometimes what people say (3)______ their real meaning. And if we don’t really listen, we miss the feeling behind the words. (4)______ someone tells you, “You’re a lucky dog .” That’s being friendly. But “lucky dog”? There’s a bit of envy in those words. Maybe he doesn’t see it himself. But (5)_____ in the “dog” puts you down a little. What he may be saying is that he doesn’t think you (6) ______ your luck. “Just think of all the things you have to be thankful for” is another noise that says one thing and means another. It could mean that the speaker is trying to get you to see your problem as part of your life (7)________. But is he? Hidden in this phrase is the thought that your problem isn’t important. It’s telling you to think of all the (8) _____________ in the world when you haven’t got a date for Saturday night. How can you tell the real meaning behind someone’s words? One way is to take a good look at the person talking. Do his words fit the way he looks? Does what he says agree with the (9)______________? His posture? The look in his eyes? Stop and think. The minute you spend (10)____________ the real meaning of what people say to you may save another mistake./js/editor20150812/dialogs/attachment_new/fileTypeImages/icon_default.gif