2015公共英语考试作文预测：考试

　作文题目：

Directions: For this part you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic My Views on Examinations. You should write at least 120 words and base your composition on the outline below:

1、 大学都用考试来衡量学生的成绩

2、 考生可能带来的副作用

3、 我对考试的看法

　参考范文：

In most colleges and universities the examination is used as a chief means of deciding whether a student succeeds or fails in mastering a particular subject. Although it does the job quite efficiently, its side effects are also enormous.

To begin with, examinations lower the standards of teaching. Since teachers are often judged by examination results, they are reduced to training their students in exam techniques. No subjects can be taught successfully merely through being approached with intent to take examinations. In addition, the most undesirable effect is that examinations encourage bad study habits. As the examination score is the only criterion for his academic performance, a student is driven to memorize mechanically rather than to think creatively.

In fact, few of us admit that examinations can contribute anything really important to the students’ academic development. If that is the case, why cannot we make a change and devise something more efficient and reliable than examinations?

　参考译文：

在大多数高校考试作为主要手段,判断一个学生成功与否掌握特定的主题。虽然确实工作很有效,但其副作用也是巨大的。

首先,考试降低了教学的标准。由于教师经常通过考试成绩来判断,他们减少了训练学生考试技巧。没有对象可以教成功仅仅通过接触目的.考试。此外,最不受欢迎的影响是,考试鼓励不好的学习习惯。考试分数是他的学业成绩的唯一标准,学生是驱动的机械记忆而不是创造性地思考问题。

事实上,我们很少有人承认考试可以贡献什么真正重要的学生的学术发展。如果是这样,为什么我们不能做出改变和创立出一种比考试更有效、更可靠吗?