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BILINGUAL WORLD ■●_ IOCUS*~点 College Entrance Examination Attracts igher Education 高考人数再创新高，1 050~考生参加考试 By Scott Lewis 帅 广or Li Dan，the weekend of June 7th 1 was one of the most important of her life．“IfI dO well in the next feW days 1 have a much better chance of havincl a successful futu re．” 对于李丹 (音译)而言，6月7日的这个周 末在她人生中是最重要的时刻之一。 ”如 果我在接下来的几天发挥出色，我将有更 好的机会去赢得未来。“ The high school senio r from Beijing ioined the ranks of 1 0．S million students across China who hunkered down and took pa rt in the 2008 College Entrance ExaminationS．The ExaminationS，the largest State—run entrance exams in the wo rld，determine which high—school students will enter universities around the country in September． 这个北京的高三学生是08年1 050万高考大 军中的坚定一员。高考，这个世界上规模 最大的全国统一入学考试决定着高中毕业 生是否能在9月进入大学接受高等教育。 With only six million places available nationwide，competition is tough for Li Dan and her feIlow students．Because of the difficulty of the examinations and the low number of opportunities the examinations a re often referred challenge facing the younghigh—school f而言，与自己同学的竞争还是很激烈的。 to as”thousands of troops on a sinqle g raduates． f由于考试的难度和相对低的入学率，高考 log bridge”一an apt description of the 由于全国招生的名额仅有600万 对于李丹 通常被说成 ”干军万马过独木桥“——这 012双语时代luly 2008 恰如其分地形容了这些年轻的高中毕业生 面临的挑战。 Students have been trying a va riety of difierent methods to ensu re success in the exams，frOm good，old—fashioned studying to asking the gods and Confu— ciusfor helP． 学生们为了在考试中取胜真是使尽浑身解 数，有中规中矩踏实学习的，也有拜孔圣 人求神保佑的。 It’S a centu ries—old practice i n Chi na to pray to Confucius before a major exam， and Confucian temples get large crowds of high school seniors and thei r pa rents during the examination period．One such shrine，Pilu Temple in Nanjing，received about 200 visitors a day du ring the run— UP to the ex