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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 focu

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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 insists that______.
选项 A、mandated state tests be replaced by some more sensible methods of assessment
B、teachers pay more attention to the nature and quality of what is taught
C、students be concerned with grades and more reading and thinking
D、radical changes be brought about in the general approach to teaching
答案B
解析 要做好这道题，首先应明白这是一个虚拟语气的宾语从句，从句中都省略了助动词should。A选项是讲mandated state tests应被一些更明智的评估方法所代替，文中并未提到代替，只是说应该用一些更明智的评估方法去发现学生们是否已掌握了技巧(using some sensible methods of assessment to discover whether students have mastered the skills)。C选项说学生应关心分数和更多的阅读与思考，文章一直在批判应试教育不应该只关注分数，因此C选项错误。D选项说教学的一般方法应被彻底改变，文中只说改变应试教育的方法，故D不对。根据第三段最后一句可知，B选项正确。
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