北外高级口译高级口语 第42课:考试是匿名考官的主观评价
日期:2013-07-04 17:36

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Exam Is a Subjective Assessment by Some Anonymous Examiner

The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous examiner. Examiners are only human. They get tired and hungry: they make mistakes. Yet they have to mark stacks of hastily scrawled scripts in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates. And their word carries weight.

After a judge,s decision you have the right of appeal, but not after an examiner's. There must surely be many simpler and more effective ways of assessing a person's true abilities. Is it cynical to suggest that examinations are merely a profitable business for the institutions that run them? This is what it boils down to in the last analysis. The best comment on the system is this illiterate message recently scrawled on a wall: "I were a teenage drop-out and now I are a teenage millionaire. "

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重点单词
  • hastilyadv. 匆忙地,急速地
  • cynicaladj. 愤世嫉俗的,吹毛求疵的
  • decisionn. 决定,决策
  • merelyadv. 仅仅,只不过
  • appealn. 恳求,上诉,吸引力 n. 诉诸裁决 v. 求助,诉
  • anonymousadj. 匿名的,无名的,没特色的
  • subjectiveadj. 主观的 n. 主格,主观事物
  • assessmentn. 估价,评估
  • illiterateadj. 文盲的,无知的 n. 文盲
  • profitableadj. 有益的,有用的