隨堂抽考

pop quiz = surprise test

期中考

midterm

期末考

final

考試的範圍是什麼?

What’s going to be covered on the test?

沒有範圍的考試

comprehensive test

上次考過的範圍這次也要考

cumulative test

考古題

old exam = past exam = previous exam

補考

make-up test

e.g.

A: Are you ready for the math test tomorrow?
B: Not yet, but do you know what is going to be on?
  明天的數學考試你準備好了嗎?
  還沒有耶，你知不知道考試的範圍呢?

e.g.

The final will be a comprehensive test.
期末考是沒有範圍的。

e.g.

Will Professor Stevens give us a cumulative test?
Stevens教授會不會考上次已經考過的東西锕?

e.g.

Do you know where to get the old exam?

你知不知道去哪裡拿考古題锕?

e.g.

The midterm is around the corner.
期中考接近了。

e.g.

I asked for sick leave yesterday. Can I take the make-up today?

昨天我請病假。今天可以補考嗎?

考試作弊

cheat on the test/exam

考試帶小抄

crib notes

找槍手代考

forge the exam

抄作業

copy someone’s homework

交考卷

turn in the test = hand in the test

發考卷

return the test

e.g.

He got away with cheating on the test?! He gets away with murder!
他考試作弊又得逞了?! 他從未失手過!

e.g.

The teacher finally saw him cheating on the test. I knew he would get busted sooner or later.
老師終於發現了他考試作弊。我知道他遲早會被抓到的。

e.g.

In the exam, the guy next to me cribbed my answers word for word.
在考試時，坐在我隔壁的傢伙逐字抄襲我的答案。

e.g.

Never be an imposter (= forger) in the exam. Once caught, he or she will be kicked out of school (= forced dismissal).
在考試時千萬不要冒名頂替。一旦被逮到，一定會被開除

e.g.

He often copies your homework. Why are you willing to give him a free ride?
他常抄襲你的作業，為何你願意讓他不勞而獲?

e.g.

The professor will return the tests today.
教授今天會發考卷。

努力用功

K 書

knuckle down = buckle down = study hard = hit the books = bone up = study one’s butts off

臨時抱佛腳

cram for a test

開夜車

pull an all-nighter = burn the midnight oil

e.g.

Hey! Buddy. We’ve got to knuckle down for a while if we want to pass the finals.
嗨!老兄，我們必須打拼一陣子以求通過期末考試。

e.g.

I need to bone up on my economics.
我必須好好K我的經濟學。

e.g.

We have fooled around for a long time and now we have to cram for the exams next Monday.
我們平常混的太凶，現在必須為下星期一的考試臨時抱佛腳。

e.g.

Pulling an all nighter makes me rather pooped the next day.
開夜車使我隔天好累。

e.g.

I have a big test tomorrow, so I plan to burn the midnight oil tonight.
明天我有個大考，所以我打算今晚熬夜通霄。

你考幾分锕?

What’s your score? = Did you do well on the test?

低空掠過

squeak by

考滿分

ace a test = pass a test with flying colors = get full marks on a test

考零分

get a big fat zero on a test

考砸了

blow a test = bomb a test

全班加分

curve the grade

e.g.

Jack is not big on biology. So he just wants to squeak by.
Jack對生物學不感興趣，他只求低空掠過。

　

e.g.

Jack is a borderline student, but his IQ is pretty high. He’s just a lazy bone.
Jack是一求勉強過關的學生，但他的智商很高，他只是個懶鬼而已。

e.g.

My younger brother got a big fat zero on the test.
我弟弟考試抱鴨蛋。

e.g.

You’re really going to freak out when I tell you who aced the test.
要是我告訴你誰考了100分，你肯定會氣瘋的。

e.g.

My parents are going to flip out if I blow this test.
要是這次考試我考砸了，我爸媽肯定會發火。

e.g.

We did really bad on the final. But don’t worry; the instructor will be curving the grades.
我們班期末考考的很爛。但別擔心，老師會全班加分的。

For the grammar and writing session this month, let’s take a look at the following sentence, which appears in one of the reading comprehension exercises in the GEPT- elementary simulation test:

For the students whose English proficiency is barely equal to that of the 8^{th graders, this sentence, a complex one containing two short clauses with their conjunctions omitted, is somehow hard for them to understand, if it is not read more than twice. Therefore, I’d like to take this chance to explain the sentence from grammatical point of view and hope the analysis would be of help to students in increasing their reading skills.}

           A clock

           A answering machine

          A bottle

          A blackboard

          Getting old

          A screwdriver

         Because he never lies.

         Wake up

       A nightmare

       Horses

       When they bite you.

       A bald eagle

       Because their horns don’t work.

    C. It is in the middle of ice.

        Without U, they can’t exist.

         When U and I become one.

The earthquake struck during the school day—2:28 p.m. on a Monday. As the ground shook, buildings began to collapse in towns across China's Sichuan Province. Some of the worst damaged was in the schools. Nearly 7,000 classrooms crumbled into heaps of rubble during the violent shaking. Tens of thousands of students were inside those classrooms when the quake began. Some were able to escape or claw their way out of the wreckage. Hundreds of other students didn't make it. They are now among China's more than 60,000 victims of the May 12 earthquake.

Reporters for National Public Radio talked with heart-broken parents whose children were buried when the Fuxing primary school collapsed. Many wanted to know why so many schools collapsed when other buildings, including government buildings, remained standing through the 7.9-magnitude quake. Were the schools poorly built, leaving the children to suffer the consequences, they asked? The Chinese government has promised to hold builders responsible for any shoddy construction.

Right now, China's focus is on the immediate crisis: Finding the victims, and feeding and housing the millions of now-homeless people. More than 60,000 people died in the earthquake, and about 25,000 others are missing and feared dead, according to China's State Council. An estimated 5 million people lost their homes in the earthquake. Many of those survivors are now living in tent cities and wondering how they'll rebuild their lives.

Adapted from www.cenewsblog.com

Vocabulary

1.      earthquake  地震

2.      struck     p. t and p. p of strike 打擊

3.      collapse    崩塌

4.      crumble    碎裂

5.      rubble     瓦礫

6.      violent shaking  巨大的晃動

7.      wreckage   殘骸

8.      victim      受害者

9.      magnitude   級

10.  shoddy construction   粗製濫造的建築

Choice

____1.  What kind of natural disaster happened in China on May 12^nd?

       A) flood      B) earthquake     C) drought

____2. According to the report, how many people probably died in this terrible

         disaster?

        A) 50,000     B) 20,000     C) 60,000

____3. Which of the following statement is not true?

A)    This earthquake is about 7.9- magnitude.

B)     Many government buildings collapsed in the earthquake.

C)     About 5 million people lost their homes in the earthquake

What goes around comes around!

His name was Fleming, and he was a poor Scottish farmer.  One day, while trying to make a living for his family, he heard a cry for help coming from a nearby bog (沼澤).  He dropped his tools and ran to the bog.  There, mired to his waist in black muck (淤泥), was a terrified boy, screaming and struggling to free himself.  Farmer Fleming saved the lad (小伙子) from what could have been a slow and terrifying death.

The next day, a fancy carriage (四輪馬車) pulled up to the Scotsman's sparse (稀疏的) surroundings.  An elegantly dressed nobleman stepped out and introduced himself as the father of the boy Farmer Fleming had saved.

"I want to repay you," said the nobleman. "You saved my son's life."

"No, I can't accept payment for what I did," the Scottish farmer replied, waving off the offer.

At that moment, the farmer's own son came to the door of the family hovel.

"Is that your son?" the nobleman asked.

"Yes," the farmer replied proudly.

"I'll make you a deal.  Let me take him and give him a good education.  If the lad is anything like his father, he'll grow to a man you can be proud of."

And that he did.  In time, Farmer Fleming's son graduated from St. Mary's Hospital Medical School in London, and went on to become known throughout the world as the noted Sir Alexander Fleming, the discoverer of Penicillin (盤尼西林).

Years afterward, the nobleman's son was stricken with pneumonia.  What saved him?  Penicillin.

The name of the nobleman?  Lord Randolph Churchill.

His son's name?  Sir Winston Churchill.

Someone once said: What goes around comes around.