Question

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students:“I’m only a 1050.”The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Seholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life.

   It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life’s doors will remain forever closed.

   According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student’s future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indication――like a student’s high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student’s academic proficiency（學(xué)業(yè)水平）,they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student’s potentialities（潛力）.This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.

64. The purpose of the SAT is to test students’     .

   A. strong will             B. academic ability

C. full potentialities          D. confidence in school work

65. Students’ self-respect is influenced by their     .

   A. sores in the SAT         B. achievements in mathematic

C. job opportunities          D. money spent on education

66.“A prestigious university”is most probably   

A. a famous university       B. a technical university

C. a traditional university     D. an expensive university

67. This passage is mainly about    .

   A. how to prepare for the SAT      B. stress caused by the SAT

C. American higher education       D. the SAT and its effects

Answer 1

本文是一篇議論文，主要對SAT（美國大學(xué)本科標(biāo)準入學(xué)考試即美國高中生的所謂“高考”）考試系統(tǒng)的利弊進行了評論。

64．B 

解析：推理判斷題。從文中第三段第三句可以推斷設(shè)立SAT考試系統(tǒng)的主要目的是為了測試學(xué)生的學(xué)術(shù)水平或能力，故B選項正確。

65．A 

解析： 細節(jié)理解題。從文中第二段第一句話可知選項A正確。

66．A

解析：詞義推測題。根據(jù)常識法。從第二段最后一句話，并結(jié)合常識可知a prestigious university是指名牌大學(xué)，因此選項A正確。

67．D 

解析： 主旨大意題。結(jié)合每一段所講的內(nèi)容，不難看出本文主要是議論SAT考試系統(tǒng)的利弊，故選項D正確。