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2021年1月13日发(作者：胡风)

Girl challenges 'gaokao' with zero
Nineteen-year-old Jiang Duoduo, a female graduate from Nanyang No. 8 Middle
School, in Central China's Henan Province, scored 114 points in the June trial gaokao,
a far cry from what she had expected.
Jiang wanted to get zero on the gaokao to serve as a warning to officials about the
state of the gaokao as she saw it.
To make sure she didn't get any points, Jiang wrote her answers in two colors, a
severe breach of examination rules.
She also filled in the blank spaces on the paper with questions and writing venting her
discontent towards the current education system and the gaokao format.
In the space on the exam paper where students are not allowed to write, she signed her
pen name
Envisioning grade divisions, friend-like teacher-student relations, quality
education, and an innovation-oriented teaching method,outlined her
ideal education system.
The girl harshly criticized the college entrance exams, citing students' waning
creativity and innovation abilities.
In her second year in senior middle school, Jiang became bored with common school
education and began to harbor a deep-rooted hatred of the college entrance exams that
she had to soon face. .
Rigid doctrines and the expectations of gaokao totally ruined Jiang's interest in
schooling.
She turned to writing as a release, which she has done since primary school.
writings were often picked as model essays and circulated in class in grade
school,
Shrugging off the idea of a college education, Jiang foresees no possible fulfillment of
her expectations of higher education. bother to squeeze onto the narrow
bridge?
When asked about her future plans, Jiang says she is considering acting or writing.

Jiang's parents were kept in the dark about her plans for the gaokao and scolded her
when they found out what had happened. She says she feels slightly guilty because
her parents wanted a higher education for her.
Q: Should students score zero to challenge the current education system?


Words and phrases:
a far cry from: 远离；相距甚远；截然不同；有天壤之别
serve as a warning to：作为…的警告
a severe breach of examination rules：严重违反考试规定
venting one’s discontent towards the current education system：发泄对当今考试体系
的不满
innovation-oriented teaching method：以培养创新能力为主的教学方法
waning creativity and innovation abilities : 苍白/贫乏的创新能力
harbor a deep-rooted hatred of怀有对…的憎恨
ruined sb's interest in破坏了某人对…的兴趣
Shrugging off：摆脱，逃避
foresees no possible fulfillment of her expectations of…看不到任何对…的期望的满
足
squeeze onto the narrow bridge 挤上独木桥
Sentence structure:
分词结构
Envisioning grade divisions, friend-like teacher-student relations, quality
education, and an innovation-oriented teaching method,outlined her
ideal education system.

Reforms for College Entrance Examination
The National Outline for Educational Reform and Development is bringing change to
China's annual College Entrance Examination.
It suggests new ways to improve the examination and enrollment system, proposing
separate exams for different kinds of colleges.
One of the key points of the Outline is to broaden the enrollment process to include
factors beyond just the examination.
Currently, a student's score on the College Entrance Examination is the only factor
determining his or her future. Universities set minimum scores in screening
prospective students, and only those whose scores are higher than the minimum are
admitted.