Directions:The following is an argument. After reading it,
you should give brief answers to the 5 questions (No. 56 through No. 60) that
followed. The answers (in no more than 3 words) should be written after the
corresponding numbers on the Answer Sheet.
Exam-oriented or Quality-oriented At
present there exists side by side two contradictory educational systems: the
traditional exam-oriented system and the new quality-oriented one, which leads
to a heated nationwide discussion as to which is preferable. The
exam-oriented educational pattern is the inevitable (不可避免的) result of the
existing exam assessment (评估) system. In order to climb into the "ivory tower"
or work for their degrees, students are cramming data and facts only for exams
and forget all the information right after the exams. What’s worse, when
students become interested in testing techniques, they gradually lose their
freedom and creativity. As a result, they always bury themselves in multiple
choices and never attach importance to practical ability and originality
(独创性). In contrast, the quality-oriented educational pattern
stresses the creativity of students and their all-round development. Students
are not expected to memorize information mechanically and passively as
computers. Instead, they are encouraged to do some creative work actively and
independently as the programmers of computers. In this pattern, what students
aim at is no longer their academic performances, but their practical
abilities. No doubt, what the new quality-oriented pattern aims
to train and bring up are not merely learners successful in studies, but
responsible citizens fit in health, rich in knowledge and competent in their
work. Therefore, it’s high time we reformed our existing exam assessment system
and adopted the new one. What is the author’s attitude towards the two educational patterns
The author prefers the ______ system.