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公共英语三级阅读与翻译试题日常训练PETS公共英语三级阅读与翻译试题日常训练PETSWe mightmarvel atthe progressmade inevery fieldof study,butthe methodsof testinga person,s knowledgeand abilityremain asprimitiveas everthey were.It reallyis extraordinarythat afterallthese years,educationists havestill failedto deviceanything more我们可能对学科的每个领域efficient andreliable thanexaminations.所取得的进步感到大为惊异,然而测试一个人的学问和力量的方法依旧原始如初的确是令人惊讶,这么多年以后,教育家们还没有找到比考试更为有效和牢靠的手段For allthe piousclaim thatexaminations testwhat youknow,itis commonknowledge thatthey moreoften dothe exactopposite.Theymay bea goodmeans oftesting memory,or theknack ofworking rapidlyunderextreme pressure,but theycan tellyou nothingabout aperson考试就是测验你知道什么,对于全部这s trueability andaptitude.些虔诚的说法,普遍认为往往适得其反考试可能是检验记忆力,或者在极度紧急的状况下发觉快速工作窍门的好方法但是它不能告知你一个人的真正力量和智能到底怎样As anxiety-makers,examinations aresecond tonone.That isbecauseso muchdepends onthem.They arethe markof successof failureinour society.Your wholefuture maybe decidedin onefateful day.It doesnt matterthat youweren tfeeling verywell,or thatyourmother died.Little thingslike thatdon tcount:the examgoes on.No onecan giveof hisbest whenhe isin mortalterror,or afterasleepless night,yet thisis preciselywhat theexamination system作为制造焦虑者,考试是最好的手段这是由于expects him to do.它打算着许多事它是一个人在社会中胜利或失败的标志在事关命运的一天里你的整个前途就被打算下来了它不管你当时的心情很糟糕,或者你的母亲已去世像那样的小事不足挂齿考试依旧进行当身陷致命的恐惊中或经过一个无眠之夜后,没人能发挥出他的最佳水平,不过这正是考试制度期望他这样做的The momenta childbegins school,he entersa worldof viciouscompetitionwhere successand failureare clearlydefined andmeasured.Can wewonder atthe increasingnumber of“drop-outs”:young peoplewhoare writtenoff asutter failuresbefore theyhave evenembarkedon acareer Canwe besurprised atthe suiciderate amongstudents从孩子开头上学的那一刻起,他就走进了一个胜利和失败界限分明和可以衡量的恶毒竞争之中我们会对数目不断增加的“辍学者”一一甚至在年轻人开头事业之前认为他已完全失败一一感到惊诧吗?面对同学的自杀率我们能感到惊讶吗?A goodeducation should,among otherthings,train youto thinkforyourself.The examinationsystem doesanything butthat.What hastobe learntis rigidlylaid downby asyllabus,so thestudent isencouragedto memorize.Examinations donot motivatea studentto readwidely,but torestrict hisreading;they donot enablehimtoseek一种好的教育应当包more and more knowledge,but inducecramming.括培育你独立的力量而考试制度肯定没有这样的作用必需学的东西被强硬地用课程大纲给制定出来,鼓舞同学去死记考试不能激励同学去广泛阅读,而是限制他阅读;考试不能使同学探究越来越多的学问,而是起到填鸭式的作用They lowerthe standardsof teaching,for theydeprive theteacherof allfreedoms.Teachers themselvesare oftenjudged byexaminationresults andinstead ofteaching theirsubjects,they arereduced totrainingtheir studentsin examtechniques whichthey despise.The mostsuccessfulcandidates arenot alwaysthe besteducated;they arethe考试促使降低best trainedin thetechnique ofworking underduress.教学标准,由于它剥夺了老师的一切自由对老师本人教学水平的评判通常就是看同学的考试成果老师们不去教授他们的课,而是简化教学,对同学进行他们嗤之以鼻的考试技巧培训最胜利的投考者不I总是学问水平最高者;他们是高压之下把握考试技巧最老练者The resultson whichso muchdepends areoften nothingmore thanasubjective assessmentby someanonymous examiner.Examiners areonlyhuman.They gettired andhungry;they makemistakes.Yet theyhaveto markstacks ofhastily scrawledscripts ina limitedamount oftime.They workunder thesame sortof pressureas thecandidates.And theirwordcarries weight.After ajudge sdecision youhave theright of众多因素所依靠的考试成果只,appeal,but notafter anexaminer s.不过是某个匿名主考者的主观评价主考官们都是人他们会变累,会饥饿,还会出错然而,他们不得不在有限的时间内为大队的匆忙草书的试卷判分跟投考者一样,他们也在相同的压力之下工作,不过他们的话很有重量在鉴定人鉴定之后,而不是主考官判卷后,你才有权提出查卷的申请There mustsurely bemany simplerandmoreeffective waysofvassessing aperson strue abilities.Is itcynical tosuggest thatexaminationsare merelya profitablebusiness forthe institutionsthatrun themThis iswhat itboils downtoin thelast analysis.The bestcomment onthe systemis thisilliteratemessage recentlyscrawled ona wall:I werea teenagedrop-out and评判一个人真实力量确定有许多更now Iare ateenage millionaire.”简洁和跟有效的方法提出考试仅仅是经营考试机构获利的生意是否有点愤世嫉俗?这是最终分析得出的结论对考试制度最好的评论是乱涂在墙上的这则没受过教育的一句“我曾是一个十几岁的辍学者,而现在我是一个十几岁的百万富话:习习文档内容到此结束,欢迎大家下载、修改、丰富并分享给更多有需要的人。