第二节：读写任务 阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右

第二节：读写任务

阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。

What Is the Use of Examinations?

 A good education should make people think for themselves. But the exam can never do anything like that.

 First, examinations are second to none because it brings anxiety to students. As a child begins school, he enters a world of terrible competition.

 Second, exams do not interest students to read or to learn widely. They do not help students to look for more and more knowledge, but try to put as much as possible into the students' head.

 Thirdly, they lower the standards of teaching for they do not give any freedom to teachers to decide what to teach. Teachers themselves have no choice but to train their students in exam skills.  The most successful students are not always the best educated but the best trained in the skills of exams.

 Fourth, they tell you nothing about a person’s true ability. The exams are often nothing more than a subjective assessment ( 主观评价) by some examiners.

 However, if there are no exams, few students or even no one will do any revision or study!

    [任务说明]

    你要参加一场英语演讲比赛，主题是“中学生学习成绩与能力的相互关系”。在参赛之前，你要查阅相关资料，并准备你的演讲发言：请认真阅读下面的短文，然后完成以下的任务。

    1)概括短文的内容要点，该部分的字数大约30；

    2)就“学生学习成绩与能力的相互关系”这个主题发表你的看法，至少包括以下的内容要点，该部分的字数大约120词；

    a)你在考试之前心情是怎样的?

    b)你在考试之前通常准备些什么?举个例子说明。

    c)你的班级里学习好的同学平时是怎样备考的?

    d)你认为考试成绩能完全反映你的学习能力吗?

    [写作要求]

    你可以使用实例或其它论述方法支持你的论点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不要抄袭阅读材料中的句子。

    [评分标准]

    概括的准确性、语言的规范性、内容的合适性以及篇章的连贯性；

One possible version：

The article tries to tell exams do more harm than good. They neither show students’ true ability nor help students to read. They make both students and teacher nervous. Teachers have to prepare students for exams.

  I feel very nervous before exam. There is too much for me to review in such a short time.  The night before exam I choose to review those important for the exam. But usually what I have learned is not in the exam ! So the result is very worrying.

  Some excellent students do something different for the exam. They usually sleep well before exams instead of burning the night oil lamp. To my surprise, they do a better job than I.

  I think exams can reflect our ability to learn. The night before exam is not the good time for the exam. Instead I should spend most of my spare time studying. Rome is not built in one day.  It is not that exams are bad but that I do not know how to learn!