“停课不停学”：高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(三)(含答案).pdfVIP

“停课不停学”：2020 高考英语时事热点拓展阅读(三) Passage1拥抱变化，做好准备，迎接高考改革。 词数 361 建议阅读时间 6 分钟 Revising ‘gaokao’ TheCollege EntranceExamination,or gaokao, hasbeen renowned as the most competitive test for Chinese students. For years, the examination has been criticized by some for being a grueling process in which students focus too much on memorization and suffertoomuchpressure. In order to address these problems, the Ministry of Education announcedthe determination to build a new reform system for college entrance examination system since 2017, China Youth Onlinereported. Apart from the compulsory (强制性的) subjects of Chinese, mathematics and English, studentsarenow supposedtobe ableto chooseany three of six other subjects:physics,chemistry, biology, politics, history and geography, which is expected to give senior high school students morechoicesin selection ofexam subjects. Shanghai and Zhejiang provinces trialed a new college entrance exam system for senior 3 students in September 2017. Then Beijing, Tianjin, Shandong and Hainan provinces joined the reform in thesameyear.Eight moreprovincesandmunicipalsfollowed afterward. Zhang Tianlang, now 18, from Zhejiang, attended the college entrance examination in 2017. He said he had a more relaxing senior year compared to previous students, choosing physics, chemistry and history as exam subjects – the ones he’s best at. “It’s a huge lift of the stress,”hesaid. In addition to abolishing the division of arts and science, some important changes are about tobemadetotheEnglish exam. According to the Ministry of Education,the biggest change is to the exam’s content.Twenty points for the oral test and 30 for the listening test will be counted into a total score of 150.This meansthat thepaper test will only count for 100points ofthetotal. Studentswill get two chances totakethe listening and speakingparts,