【題目】American high school students are terrible writers, and one education reform group thinks it has an answer: robots. Or, more accurately, robot-readers-computers programmed to scan student essays and spit out a grade.

Mark Shermis, professor of the College of Education at the University of Akron, is helping to hold a contest, set up by the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation ( WFHF), which promises $ 100,000 in prize money to programmers who write the best automated grading software. "If you're a high school teacher and you give a writing task, you're walking home with 150 essays, " Shermis said, "You're going to need some help. "

Automated essay grading was first proposed in the 1960s, but computers back then were not up to the task. In the late 1990s, as technology improved, several textbook and testing companies jumped into the field. Today, computers are used to grade essays on South Dakota's student writing assessments and a handful of other exams, including the TOEFL test of English fluency, taken by foreign students.

The Hewlett contest aims to show that computers can grade as well as English teachers---- only much more quickly and without all that depressing red ink. Automated essay scoring is "objective," Shermis said, " And it can be done immediately. If students finish an essay at l0 pm, they get a result at 10 :00 pm . "

Take, for instance, the Intelligent Essay Assessor, a web-based tool marketed by Pearson Education, Inc. Within seconds it can analyze an essay for spelling, grammar, organization, and help students to make revisions. The program scans for key words and analyzes semantic (語義的) patterns , and Pearson claims that it can understand the meaning of text much the same as a human reader.

【1】 The text is written to introduce________.

A. Hewlett contest

B. education reform in America

C. robot-readers

D. William and Flora Hewlett Foundation

【2】What does the underlined phrase "spit out "in Paragraph I probably mean?

A. Analyze. B. Organize.

C. Give. D. Check.

【3】 What does Paragraph 4 focus on?

A. The application of automated essay scoring.

B. The advantages of automated essay scoring.

C. The prize of Hewlett contest.

D. Teachers' opinions about Hewlett contest.

【答案】

【1】C

【2】C

【3】B

【解析】

試題分析 ：批閱學(xué)生作文是一件讓老師頭疼的問題，尤其是批閱比較差的作文。在本文中作者介紹了在美國針對這種情況進(jìn)行的一種機(jī)器人大賽，即研制幫助老師批閱作文的機(jī)器人。

【1】C推理判斷題。文章開門見山提出教育改革小組的想法：發(fā)明能夠幫助老師判定作文等級的機(jī)器人來減輕教師的負(fù)擔(dān)，然后在下文詳細(xì)進(jìn)行介紹，故文章中心內(nèi)容是介紹這種機(jī)器人，選C。

【2】C詞義猜測題。從下文who write the best automated grading software.可知教授鼓勵(lì)編這種程序的目的是替老師們批閱作文，給學(xué)生作文打分，故選C。

【3】B主旨大意題。根據(jù)本段中that computers can grade as well as English teachers和without all that depressing red ink以及And it can be done immediately.可以判斷本段主要介紹這種機(jī)器人的優(yōu)點(diǎn)，選B。

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