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【单选题】For one brief moment, after years of fear and loathing,America seemed ready to make peace with the SAT. When the University ofCalifornia several years ago threatened to treat the test like a bad batch of cafeteria food and tell applicants not to buy it, theCollegeBoard junked the bewildering analogy questions (Warthogs are to pigs as politicians are to what ), created a writing section (including producing an essay), added tougher math questions and more reading analysis—and had everybody talking about the new-and-improved SAT.
Then the first students to take SAT: The Sequel were seen stumbling out of the testing centers as if they had just run a marathon, and all the happy talks endeD、With the three hours and 45 minutes stretching to five hours with breaks and instructions, it got worse. Nobody is sure how, but moisture in some SAT answer sheets caused pencil marks to bleed or fade, producing more than 5,000 tests with the wrong scores.Even after that was fixed, several universities reported a sharp drop in their applicants’ average scores, which many attributed to exhaustion, and more colleges told applicants they would no longer have to take the SAT.
All of which stoked interest in theACT, the SAT’s less famous and less feared rival based in IowaCity, Iow
A、The shorter test is now becoming a welcome alternative for many high schoolers who no longer see a need to endure the usual SAT traum
A、"I think theACT is a true player in the college-admissions game these days, "says Robyn Lady, until recently a college counselor at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology.Although most Jefferson students still take the SAT, the number ofACTs there has tripled in the last two years. It’s a shift that, if it continues, could change the balance of entrance-test power, since the FairfaxCounty, V
A、, magnet sends more kids to the Ivy League than almost any other U. S. school.
The SAT, with a maximum 2,400 points, and theACT, with a maximum 36 points, are scored differently, but otherwise are no more different from each other thanAmerican football differs from theCanadian version. Students usually do equally well on each. The SAT’s new 25-minute essay is required, while theACT’s essay is optional. The SAT is three hours and 45 minutes long. The comparableACT is three hours and 25 minutes. The SAT has three sections: critical reading, math and writing. TheACT has math, science, reading andEnglish sections, plus optional writing. TheACT with the writing test costs $43, more than the SAT’s $ 41.50, hut theACT is only $29 without the writing section.
Several high-school guidance counselors say they assume theACT, with 1.2 million test takers in the class of 2005 compared with 1.5 million for the SAT, will eventually catch up, in part because so many educators are advising their students to try both. WendyAndreen, counselor at Memorial Senior High School in Houston—where the SAT has been supreme—says she tells students every year they should take both tests to be safe, and many are beginning to listen, withACTs up 18 percent since 2002.Deb Shaver, director of admissions at SmithCollege, says counselors are steering students to theACT "because there is less hysteria surrounding theACTs, and students feel less stressed about taking the test."
The mistakes made in the scoring of the October 2005 SAT by PearsonEducational Measurement, theCollegeBoard’s subcontractor, have not been forgotten, counselors say. The SAT suffered from damaging news stories as details of the errors came out bit by bit. In the end, 4,411 students had scores reported to colleges that were lower than they actually earned and had to be corrected; 17 percent of the corrections were for more than 40 points.CollegeBoard president GastonCaperton apologized, saying the mishap "brings humility, and humility makes us more aware, empathetic and respectful of others."
But many counselors, who often
网考网参考答案：C
网考网解析：
态度题。由题干中的educators定位至第五段。首句指出so many educators are advising their students to try both，接着进一步说明：they should take both tests to be safe．可见这些人对SAT和 ACT是不偏不倚的中立态度，故[C]为答案。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>