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  3. In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first

In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first

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问题      In a few weeks, nigh school students face the prospect of taking the much-publicized new SAT Reasoning Test, which for the first time will require them to write a timed essay. Yet colleges continue to send confusing signals about whether students applying in the fall to attend college must take the new exam.
     Some schools, including Harvard, say they will accept scores from either the new test or the old SAT, which was administered for the last time in January and did not contain a writing section. The University of Central Florida, for example, will require the new test, which will be given for the first time on March 12. Still others, such as the University of Virginia, strongly recommend that prospective applicants take the new test but under some circumstances also will accept the old SAT. A number of colleges are delaying a decision. The College Board, which administers the SAT, surveyed more than 1,900 four-year schools and has heard back from slightly more than 500. Of those, 81% say they will require the new test, including schools such as Harvard that are giving students a choice in what will be a year of transition.
     "Anything new goes through a special lens of evaluation," says Lee Stetson, admissions dean at the University of Pennsylvania, which judiciously will use results from the new writing section until officials have a chance to study the revised SAT’s predictive validity.
     A number of admissions deans are skeptical that the new exam will be an improvement. Charles Deacon, dean of undergraduate admissions at Georgetown University, says adding the essay "will create more barriers to poor kids who are less well-prepared". The test was rushed to market because the University of California system, a major College Board customer, threatened to stop requiting the SAT, he says. The test "was developed and marketed for all the wrong reasons". Deacon, who says he has been "badgered" by the College Board to endorse the new exam, has refused to do so.
     Some schools, including Georgetown, Iowa’s Grinnell College and Pennsylvania’s Franklin and Marshall College, say that at least for now, they will not even look at scores from the writing section when making admission decisions. "We have adopted a wait-and-see attitude," says Dennis Trotter of Franklin and Marshall.
     College Board officials counter that based on extensive field tests, they are confident the test is as reliable a predictor of freshman-year performance as the old SAT. Moreover, they say, well-trained scorers, many of them, high school English teachers, will grade the essays, which students have 25 minutes to write.
     Amidst all the confusion, what should students do? Admissions deans and school counselors say to be sure to check with each college for requirements.
What can we infer from the passage about the test?
选项 A、Students who have taken the old test are strongly advised not to take the new test.
B、As compared with the old test, the new one requires the student to write an essay in a shorter period of time.
C、The College Board has decided to invite university teachers to grade the essays.
D、The College Board has appealed to many universities to support the new examination.
答案D
解析 本题考查推理断判。此问题意思为：“我们可从文章中推知关于该项测试的什么信息”。这是推断题，需要一项一项细看。从第二段看，选项A 是不对的，因为不同的学校在录取新生时对考生参加的考试有不同的要求，并不能看出选项A 所表达的“强烈建议”。选项B 也不对，因为旧的测试根本就没有写作部分，这从第一段第一句可以看出来。选项C 与文章第六段不符，文中说大部分阅卷员是中学老师。选项D 是正确的。首先在第四段中间可以看出像加州大学这样的大客户对大学委员会的影响有多大。其次可以在第四段末看出，大学委员会一直缠着一位入学处主任，要求其同意使用该考试。
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