英美报刊选读答案(L10-21).doc

Answer key for Lesson 10 V. CABDC VI. Richard Atkinson investigated the problems by personally reading the manuals and sample tests to review and assess the verbal and mathematical questions. Besides, he visited schools to find students’ responses to SAT exams. After the investigation, he proposed that SAT I should be scrapped. His proposal has caused a huge stir on campuses nationwide and rekindled long-standing arguments about the test. The College Board argues that SAT measures the sort of higher-order math and literary-reasoning skills that students need to succeed in college and later in life and that the test correlates well with freshman-year college grades. They have adopted college admission systems based in part on class is automatically admitted to state universities. 　Their worry is that it is only a matter of time before there is pressure to scrap subject-area tests and getting rid of the SAT is the first step in a wretched direction. SAT I refers to the tests on higher-order math and literary-reasoning skills. Many critics think the questions are confusing and verbal analogies too obscure. SAT II refers to the subject-specific achievement tests which measure knowledge in such areas as writing, math, physics, history and foreign language. The test debate will not die down anytime soon. Answer key for Lesson 11 V. B C B A D VI. The insurance company has refused Lorraine Hiskey’s medical bill, because the company claimed that her treatment was “experimental”. Politicians have focused attention on the 35 million Americans who have no health coverage. 　The kind of medical care deemed experimental, unproven, unnecessery or to inappropriate is denied coverage。 Insurers try to justify insurance denials by saying that they want to pretect patients from unnecessary medicine and improve the overall quality of care. The primary reason is to trim costs. Patients are beginning to fight back and win. Not exactly, there are some inconsistencies,which may spur many c