2014年考研英语阅读新题型解析_大学英语阅读

2014年考研英语阅读新题型解析

　　Every class at school requires homework, quizzes, tests, and finally, a final exam. We take exams to prove ourselves to prove we have advanced our education.

　　There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person?s true abilities.

　　Stress has hit an eleven on the one?to?ten scale during examinations. Stress is not healthy, and it makes everyone angry. The last thing I remember when I go back to school is exams. Is the school trying aversion therapy on its student?

　　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?

　　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.

　　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.

　　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 stress.