Question

【題目】 Sweaty palms shaking hands and a racing heart! This is what many students experience when they take a big test. When anxiety(焦慮)kicks in students can completely lose concentration, leading to poor scores. But is there any solution to such stress?

The key to reducing test anxiety is writing. According to a recent report in the journal Science taking a few minutes before an exam to write about all those fears could help students perform better.

The study was conducted by Professor Sian L. Beilock from the University of Chicago and his graduate student Gcrardo Ramirez.

First the researchers asked 20 college students to take a maths test to get a base-lined score. Next they told the students that they could get a monetary award if they got a good score and that they were being videotaped.

Before beginning the main test the researchers asked one group of students to spend 10 minutes writing down their anxieties about the test while the other group sat quietly. Both groups then took the same exam.

The researchers found that students who sat quietly did 12% worse than they had on the pre-test and the ones who wrote about their anxieties improved their scores by 5%.

Writing enables students to feel refreshed when facing challenging questions on the examination. However experts also warn that such a change will not cause students to become any smarter. It can only make them become more relaxed and focused.

【1】According to passage, what if students take an exam with anxiety?

A.may get poor gradeB.pay more attention

C.be videotapedD.to study harder than before

【2】From the experiment we learn that______ .

A.the two student groups took different testsB.they could earn money if they did well

C.they needed to finish the test within 10 minutesD.they were asked to relax before the test

【3】The result of the research has proved that____ .

A.writing before a test can make you smarter

B.you can become relaxed by writing before a test

C.the two student groups both did well in the exam

D.students dislike challenging questions on the examination

Answer 1

【答案】

【1】A

【2】B

【3】B

【解析】

本文是一篇說明文，介紹了來自芝加哥大學(xué)的一名教授與他的一名畢業(yè)生一起做了一個(gè)研究，表明在考試前寫下自己的恐懼，有助于考生減輕在考試時(shí)的焦慮。

【1】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)When anxiety kicks in students can completely lose concentration leading to poor scores，可知焦慮會(huì)讓學(xué)生考不好，故選A。

【2】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Next they told the students that they could get a monetary award if they got a good score and that they were being videotaped，可知如果考得好，學(xué)生是可以獲得金錢獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)的，故選B。

【3】細(xì)節(jié)理解題。根據(jù)Writing enables students to feel refreshed when facing challenging questions on the examination和It can only make them become more relaxed and focused，可知實(shí)驗(yàn)證明，考前寫下恐懼可以幫助考生放松和更專注，故選B。