Wang Jiaming from Beijing Chenjinglun High School says he is a lucky boy. He’s happy that he’s sitting the senior high school entrance exam (中考) in 2014 instead of 2016.
On Oct 22, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (北京市教委) announced that, from 2016, the English scores in the senior high school entrance exam will be reduced from 120 to 100. Of the 100 points, the listening ability scores will increase to 50. Meanwhile, the points for Chinese will increase from 120 to 150.
“The change won’t affect me. I feel so lucky because English is my strongest subject,” said Wang.
Why such a change? It places the importance on Chinese in our study, and reduces students’ stress, said Li Yi, spokesman of the commission.
“The change will also push us to pay attention to the practical usage (運(yùn)用) of English,” said Li. “Students will be encouraged to learn to understand English menus and read English news on mobile phones.”
There isn’t news that other cities will have the same change. But several places are making changes to English tests in the college entrance exams. For example, Shandong is considering taking out the listening part of the English exam in its college entrance exams.
But, “being tested for less points doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly,” Bai Ping wrote in China Daily.
English has long been the world’s most commonly used language. Former Chinese premier Zhu Rongji once said: “In a globalizing economy (全球經(jīng)濟(jì)), if you cannot communicate with foreigners, how can one be part of the world economy?”
Wang Jiaming said he understood the change.
“Chinese, not English, is our mother tongue (母語),” he said. “But still, I think English is both interesting and useful.”
小題1:In the Beijing senior high school entrance exam of 2016, _____.
A．the English scores will be cut down to 100
B．the English listening ability scores will be lowered
C．the points for Chinese will be reduced by 30 points
D．the points for chemistry will increase by 20 points
小題2: The underlined phrase “can be taken lightly” in this sentence “being tested for less points  doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly,” is closest in meaning to “_____________”.
A．can be taken out
B．can be paid less attention to
C．can be taken a close look at
D．can take the place of Chinese
小題3:What is the main purpose of the change?
A．To encourage students to learn how to order meals in English.
B．To make students learn to read English news on mobile phones.
C．To ask students to prepare for the college entrance exam.
D．To make students pay more attention to learning Chinese.
小題4:What does Bai Ping think of the reforms (改革)?
A．They make students spend less time on English.
B．They make it harder to get a high score.
C．Studying English is still important for the students.
D．English is both interesting and useful.

小題1:A
小題2:B
小題3:D
小題4:C

試題分析：短文大意：北京市教育委員會(huì)宣布，從2016起，在高中入學(xué)考試的英語成績(jī)將從120減少到100。在英語100分中，聽力成績(jī)將增加到50。同時(shí)，語文將從120增加到150分。本文給出了部分人士對(duì)這一改革的看法。
小題1:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)第二段開頭On Oct 22, Beijing Municipal Commission of Education (北京市教委) announced that, from 2016, the English scores in the senior high school entrance exam will be reduced from 120 to 100.可知該選A。
小題2:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。can be taken lightly的意思是“可以掉以輕心”, can be paid less attention to的意思是“可以較少關(guān)注”。它們最接近，所以該選B。
小題3:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Why such a change? It places the importance on Chinese in our study, and reduces students’ stress,可知該選D。
小題4:細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)But, “being tested for less points doesn’t mean the subject can be taken lightly,” Bai Ping wrote in China Daily.可推知該選C。
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