VOA慢速英语20061102a
时间：2018-12-07 作者：英语课 分类：2006年慢速英语(十一)月
EDUCATION REPORT - Higher Education in America: College Entrance ExamsBy Nancy Steinbach
Broadcast: Thursday, November 02, 2006
This is the VOA Special English Education Report.
American colleges and universities consider a number of things about a student who wants to be admitted. Experts on the subject say the most important thing is the student's high school record. Admissions 1 officers look not only at the grades that the student has earned. They also look at the level of difficulty 2 of the classes.
An SAT prep class in Massachusetts
A student's interests and activities may also play a part in getting accepted. But in most cases another consideration 3 is how well the student did on college entrance exams. This week in our Foreign Student Series 4, we discuss two of these tests: the SAT and the ACT. Most American schools accept either one.
The SAT measures reasoning skills in mathematics 5 and language. Students have almost four hours to complete the SAT. The newest part is an essay. Students have twenty-five minutes to write an answer to a question.
The SAT costs forty-one dollars and fifty cents. The international processing charge is twenty-two dollars more. And test-takers in India and Pakistan must also pay a twenty-one dollar and fifty cent security 6 charge.
Students may also need to take SAT subject tests in areas like history, science and foreign language. Subject tests cost eighteen dollars each. The Web 7 site for the SAT is collegeboard.com.
The ACT is an achievement test. It is designed to measure what a student has learned 8 in school. Students are tested in mathematics, English, reading and science. A writing test is offered but not required. Without it, the ACT takes about three hours to complete. The essay part adds thirty minutes.
The ACT costs forty-nine dollars to take outside the United 9 States. The writing test costs an additional 10 fourteen dollars. The ACT Web site is act.org.
Recent Chinese news reports suggested that ACT testing would be expanded in China next year. But an ACT spokesman 11 denies 12 those reports. He tells us they were based on a misunderstanding. He says there are no plans to increase the number of testing centers in China. Ten centers there offer the ACT, but students must first take training classes at those centers.
The only place in China where the SAT is offered for Chinese students is in Hong Kong. International students living in China have more choices.
And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm Doug Johnson.
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Next week: TOEFL, the Test of English as a Foreign Language
- a need-blind admissions policy 不考虑经济能力的录取政策
- He's the Dean of Admissions for the University of Michigan. 他是Michigan大学的新生注册主任。 来自辞典例句
- If there is any difficulty,please let us know promptly.倘有困难，请迅速通知我们。
- A little difficulty like this is nothing to us.这点困难算不了什么。
- John never showed any consideration for his mother's feeling.约翰从来都不体谅他母亲的感情。
- We did an overall consideration of the matter at last.最后我们又对这个问题作了全盘考虑。
- The students have put forward a series of questions.学生们提出了一系列问题。
- He gave forth a series of works in rapid succession.他很快连续发表了一系列的作品。
- He has come out in front in the study of mathematics.他在数学方面已名列前茅。
- She is working at a difficult problem in mathematics.她在做一道数学难题。
- A security guard brought him down with a flying tackle.一名保安人员飞身把他抱倒。
- There was tight security at the airport when the President's plane landed.总统的专机降落时，机场的保安措施很严密。
- The spider weaves a web.蜘蛛织网。
- You mean the World Wide Web?你是说国际互联网？
- He went into a rage when he learned about it.他听到这事后勃然大怒。
- In this little village,he passed for a learned man.在这个小村子里，他被视为有学问的人。
- The whole nation is closely united.全国人民紧密团结。
- The two men were united by community of interests.共同的利益使两个人结合在一起。
- It is necessary to set down these additional rules.有必要制定这些补充规则。
- I think we can fit in an additional room.我想我们可以再加建一间房子。