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What’ s Wrong with Our Teaching? Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children’ s school week is foc

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问题                                                      What’ s Wrong with Our Teaching?
    Testing has replaced teaching in most public schools. My own children’ s school week is focused on pretests, drills, tests, and retests. I believe that my daughter Erica, who gets excellent marks, has never read a chapter of any of her school textbooks all the way through. And teachers are often heard to state proudly and openly that they teach to the mandated state test.
    Teaching to the test is a strange phenomenon. Instead of deciding what skills students ought to learn, helping students learn them, and then using some sensible methods of assessment (评估) to discover whether students have mastered the skills, teachers are encouraged to reverse the process. First one looks at a test. Then one draws the skills needed not to master, say, reading, but to do well on the test. Finally, the test skills are taught.
    The ability to read or write or calculate might imply the ability to do reasonably well on standardized tests. However, neither reading nor writing develops simply through being taught to take tests. We must be careful to avoid mistaking preparation for a test of a skill with the acquisition of that skill. Too many discussions of basic skills make this fundamental confusion because people are test obsessed rather than concerned with the nature and quality of what is taught.
    Recently many schools have faced with what could be called the crisis of comprehension or, in simple terms, the phenomenon of students with grammar skills still being unable to understand what they read. These students are good at test taking, but they have little or no experience reading or thinking, and talking about what they read. They are taught to be so concerned with grade that they have no time or ease of mind to think about meaning, and reread things if necessary.
The author gives an account of Erica’ s performance in her study in order to___________.
选项 A、illustrate her cleverness in test taking
B、reveal the incompetence of teachers
C、show there is something wrong with the current practice in teaching
D、demonstrate the best way to read textbooks
答案C
解析 这篇文章主要讲应试教育给学生带来的一些危害。作者以自己女Erica为例：虽然她在考试中得了高分，但她从未从头到尾读过课本中的任何一章，以此来说明现行教育制度的弊端。A项“说明她在考试上的聪明才智”，B项“揭示老师的无能”，这两者均不是重点所在；D项“展现读课本的最好方法”，这正好与作者的意思相反。故选C。
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