听力训练Exercise

1. What does the author do?
2. What will make it impossible for poor students to get into a good college?
3. According to the passage, what can't SAT test?
4. The unlucky students are speaking of the on the Scholastic Aptitude Test（SAT）,which is used to whether they will be to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a education at all.
5. It is that if students value highly their test scores, then a great of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who poorly on the exam are left that it is all over.
6. According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a indicator of a student's future in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more when it is set together with other -like a student's high school grades.

Background Information
背景信息
SAT（Scholastic Aptitude Test and Scholastic Assessment Test）被称作学术能力测试和学术评估测试。许多美国大学都要求考生提供SAT的成绩。SAT的目的是通过测试学生在高中学习的内容和他们的应试能力来衡量一个学生的学术潜力。SAT是一个多重选择题考试，每个正确答案添加分数，每个不正确答案减分数。SAT也测试学生是否为了考试做了准备。学生对SAT考试准备得充分与否决定了学生的SAT分数，并决定学生所能申请的大学。

SAT包括三个部分，分别是写作、数学和阅读，每个部分的分数段是200~800分。平均分是大约1500分。大多数高校接受有平均分数的学生。不过，一些好的大学需要SAT的分数在2100以上。能取得2100分以上的学生是进入前10%的考生。统计表明，在一百万学生里大约有二十人能在SAT考试中获得满分--2400分。

Words & Phrases
Words ：
academic 学术的；理论的；学院的
accurate 正确的；精确的
determine 决定，使下定决心
indication 指示，暗示

prestigious 享有声望的，声望很高的
professor 教授
proficiency 熟练；精通
reliable 可靠的，可信赖的
willpower 毅力，意志力

Phrases:
be admitted to... 获准......
be unable to... 不能......
be used to... 被用来......
even if 尽管，即使

have a chance to... 有机会......
in most cases 在大多数情况下
speak of... 谈及，说到......

Sentence Pattern 句型
1. It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. 很明显，如果学生将这一成绩看的很重，那就意味着他们在很大程度上把自尊心与这一分数相联系。
It is obvious that... ...... 是显而易见的。

听力答案
参考答案：
1. He is a professor.
2. The low test score.
3. Confidence, efforts and willpower.
4. score, determine, admitted, higher.
5. obvious, amount, perform, feeling.
6. reliable, performance, accurate, indication.

听力原文
College Admission Examination in America

As a professor at a large American university, there is a phrase that I hear often from students: "I'm only a 1050." The unlucky students are speaking of the score on the Seholastic Aptitude Test (SAT), which is used to determine whether they will be admitted to the college or university of their choice, or even have a chance to get a higher education at all. The SAT score, whether it is 800, 1 100 or 1550, has becomes the focus at this time of their life.

It is obvious that if students value highly their test scores, then a great amount of their self-respect is put in the number. Students who perform poorly on the exam are left feeling that it is all over. The low test score, they think, will make it impossible for them to get into a good college. And without a degree from a prestigious university, they fear that many of life's doors will remain forever closed.

According to a study done in the 1990s, the SAT is only a reliable indicator of a student's future performance in most cases. Interestingly, it becomes much more accurate when it is set together with other indicators—like a student's high school grades. Even if standardized tests like the SAT could show a student's academic proficiency, they will never be able to test things like confidence, efforts and willpower, and are unable to give us the full picture of a student's potentialities. This is not to suggest that we should stop using SAT scores in our college admission process. The SAT is an excellent test in many ways, and the score is still a useful means of testing students. However, it should be only one of many methods used.

参考译文美国大学的入学考试
我是一所规模较大的美国大学的一名教授，我经常听到我的学生说：“我只考了1050分。”这些不走运的学生是在说学习能力评估考试（SAT）的分数，而这分数将决定他们能否被自己所选择的学校录取，甚至将决定他们能否接受大学教育。SAT考试分数，不管是800分、1100分或是1550分，都将在他们一生中的这一时期备受关注。

很明显，如果学生将这一成绩看的很重，那就意味着他们在很大程度上把自尊心与这一分数相联系。在考试中成绩不好的学生感觉一切都完了。他们认为分数越低，他们进入好大学的概率将越小。如果没有名牌大学的学位，他们就会担心未来人生的很多扇大门将向自己永远关闭了。

20世纪90年代的一项研究显示，在大多数情况下，SAT只是体现学生未来表现的一项可信性指标。有趣的是，学生的这一成绩如果与其他指标--比如学生的高中成绩结合在一起考虑，将会变得更精确。即使像SAT这种标准考试可以体现学生的学业成绩，却不能测试其他方面，如学生的信心、所付出的努力及意志力；学生的整体潜力也并不能由这些考试体现出来。但这并不是说大学的入学考试应该停止使用SAT分数。SAT在很多方面来说都是很不错的考试，而且考试的成绩仍是考核学生的一种有效的方式。然而，这只应该是我们所用到的多种方式中的一种。