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【题目】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 (语义的) 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】

试题分析：批阅学生作文是一件让老师头疼的问题，尤其是批阅比较差的作文。在本文中作者介绍了在美国针对这种情况进行的一种机器人大赛，即研制帮助老师批阅作文的机器人。

【1】C推理判断题。文章开门见山提出教育改革小组的想法：发明能够帮助老师判定作文等级的机器人来减轻教师的负担，然后在下文详细进行介绍，故文章中心内容是介绍这种机器人，选C。

【2】C词义猜测题。从下文who write the best automated grading software.可知教授鼓励编这种程序的目的是替老师们批阅作文，给学生作文打分，故选C。

【3】B主旨大意题。根据本段中that computers can grade as well as English teachers和without all that depressing red ink以及And it can be done immediately.可以判断本段主要介绍这种机器人的优点，选B。

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