英语新高考、高中学业水平考试研讨会”闭幕词.doc

中学英语测试改革的几点思考----“英语新高考、高中学业水平考试研讨会”闭幕词各位老师，大家早上好！两天来，我们围绕英语新高考、新学考这两个主题，分别开展了考试分析、考纲研读、复习交流、新题型研讨等内容丰富和形式多样的研讨活动，湘潭市一中教科室副主任冯霞老师、湖南师大附中特级教师杨美英老师、省外研会常务理事、株洲市教科院张光明老师、长郡中学外语教研组长陈春华老师、省外研会副理事长、怀化市教科院佘长保老师、省外研会副秘书长湘潭市教科院陈红老师、长沙市一中肖安老师、苏州教科院副院长、特级教师胡明老师以及雅礼中学王满春等九位老师先后在大会上做了专题报告这些报告凝聚了专家们长期研究和实践取得的丰硕成果，对帮助大家理解英语新高考、新学考的性质、认识其重要性、卓有成效地开展复习教学、提高指导考生应试能力、全面提升教学水平、促进高中英语新课程改革首轮实验圆满完成都具有积极的指导作用在此，我提议，我们再一次以热烈的掌声对各位专家所做的精彩报告表示最衷心的感谢！ 大家一致认为我省考试机构，特别高考英语命题组专家们顺应了新课程标准实施的潮流，迎接了因此而带来的新的英语高考测试的挑战，研制的2010高考英语考试说明、学考大纲较为全面地体现新课程标准所倡导的教改理念，较好地反映新课程标准提出的教学目标，充分结合了我省实施《牛津高中英语》教材教学的实际，在总结过去经验、教训的基础上，对利益攸关的高考、学考进行了较大的改革。

这些改革较好地理顺考与教、考与学的关系，使新课程标准实施下的高考英语测试能为高等院校选好人才的同时，有利于推动基础教育课程改革、有利于引导中学实施素质教育、有利于新一代国家建设人才的成长较好地解决了高中课改最终且最重要的课题，交了一份令学生、家长、教师、社会等各方面都较为满意的答卷作为从事基础教育英语教学及研究人员，我们谨向参与研制考试纲要文件的全体专家表示感谢高考、学考的具体变化及意义，前面专家报告都一一谈及，下面我想接着刚才的讨论，就英语考试改革，主要是高考改革这一话题再出三个思考题，与大家一道探讨第一个思考题是部分题型的属性问题，二是随着主观题的不断增强，试卷的信度如何保证的问题，三是试卷结构变化的近期走向的问题一. 题型属性问题，书面表达部分的阅读填空题、回答问题的题型属性问题第四部分 书面表达PART FOUR WRITING第一节 阅读短文，填空SECTION A Directions: Read the following passage. Complete the diagram by using the information from the passage. Write NO MORE THAN THREE WORDS for each answer. One of the definitions of a symbol is that it is “something that stands for something else.” We can divide symbols into three kinds: the conventional, the accidental, and the universal symbol.The conventional symbol is the best known in everyday language. The letters t-a-b-l-e stand for the thing “table” we see, touch, and use. But there is no inherent (内在的) relationship between the meaning and its letters or sound. The only reason the word symbolizes the thing is the convention of calling this particular thing by a name. After being repeated over and over, the word is accepted in the language.Besides words, pictures also act as symbols. A flag, for instance, may stand for a specific country, and yet there is no inherent connection between the specific colours and the country for which they stand. It has been accepted after repeated uses.The opposite to the conventional symbol is the accidental symbol. Supposing that someone has had a saddening experience in a city, he will easily connect the name with a mood of sadness when hearing its name, just as he would connect it with a mood of joy had his experience been a happy one. Obviously, there is nothing in the nature of the city that is either sad or joyful. It is the individual experience connected with the city that makes it a symbol of a mood. The connection between the symbol and the experience symbolized is entirely accidental.The universal symbol is one in which there is an inherent relationship between the symbol and the symbolized. Take, for instance, the symbol of fire. Fire gives us the impression of power, of energy, and of lightness. When we use fire as a symbol, we describe the inner experience characterized by the same elements — the mood of energy, lightness, movement, etc.The universal symbol is the only one in which the relationship between the symbol and that which is symbolized is not coincidental (巧合的), but inherent. It can be called universal because it is shared by all men, in contrast not only to the accidental symbol, which is entirely personal, but also to the conventional symbol, which is shared by the people of the same convention. Title: 71 Major points   72 74 Connections between Symbols and the Symbolized 79 Conventional Symbolst-a-b-l-e↓the thing “table”a flag↓ 75 77 people of thesame conventionAccidental Symbols 76 ↓ joy or sadness 78 individual 73 fire↓power, energy, lightnessinherent connection 80 (讨论 此题具有何种测试功能,能用阅读理解选择题替代吗?)第二节 阅读短文，回答问题SECTION B Directions: Read the following passage. Answer the questions according to the information given in the passage and the required words limit. Write your answers on your answer sheet.Nowadays a lot of people move abroad because of their jobs. They may find that their company is moving them overseas but many people make their own decision, believing they will have more successful careers abroad. Paul Derwin is a scientist who used to be working at a famous London university. He was dissatisfied, however, with the level of funding and recognition he was getting and decided to explore the possibilities California had to offer. “After ten years here, I’ve got a far nicer life than before,” he says. “I have a fantastic job and the recognition I wanted. People take my work much more seriously here.”The more popular reason for emigrating, however, is the desire for a better quality of life. Destinations that place a greater value on leisure were the most popular. People also look for places that will give them a sunnier climate. Cheaper property is another reason given for moving abroad. The cost of living in America, for example, is twenty percent lower than in Britain and often sala。