2015届高考英语总复习冲刺阶段经典课件系列突破阅读理解及书面表达 (4).ppt

美文赏析
Good changes?
FOR Beijing students hoping to gain an edge (优势)on the national college entrance examinations with their good English skills,it's bad news:English will not be as important as Chinese or math on the big exam starting from 2016.
Beijing's education authorities have decided to cut the English test score from 150 to 100 but raise that of Chinese from 150 to 180.
“I have been told since I was able to speak that English is very important,but all of a sudden①,it isn't any longer,”complained one of my classmates,who usually scores highly on English tests.
As Senior 3 students already,we both feel lucky that English will weigh as much as Chinese and math for two more years,but a few of our classmates who don't do well on English plained about being born in the wrong year.
“What if② I had been born two years later,”said Xiao Li,“or even later,when we might not have to learn English at all.”
Teachers in my high school are divided over the changes to gaokao scoring.“The message has been delivered③ that English will not be as important as other subjects,”said English teacher Madame Zheng, adding,half­jokingly,“I might lose my job.”
My neighbor Mr Luo even pulled his 11­year­old daughter out of an expensive English training program at a private weekend school,getting a refund(退款)of 3,500 yuan from his 5,000 yuan tuition,“We'll spend the money on extra courses like Chinese writing and math,”he said.
Beijing is not alone in playing down the importance of English in the college entrance provinces are considering changes to English testing example,Shandong will cancel the listening part of the English test next year.
The Chinese capital's reforms④ are meant to reduce the workload of students and call for more time and energy to be spent on Chinese language and culture.
Still,in my opinion, changes to English testing scores are sure to dampen students' enthusiasm for learning English and make China,which ranked⑤ fairly low on Education