There are now well over 1,000 colleges and universities that don’t require SAT or ACT scores in deciding whom to admit, a number that is growing every year. 【小题1】 new study finds that scores on these tests are of little value in predicting students’ performance in college, and 【小题2】 (raise) the question: Should those tests be required at all?

When a college considers test-optional admissions policies, the first 【小题3】 (react) people feel is that the college will admit less 【小题4】 (qualify) students. Actually, more students from diverse backgrounds 【小题5】 (admit) to colleges abolishing test scores and students graduate at a higher rate. 【小题6】, some researchers question the impact the policies have had 【小题7】 schools. They argue that 【小题8】 the study is showing can’t prove test scores can be an obstacle for students. But two 【小题9】 (year) worth of data clearly indicate that students who go into university with high test scores perform no better than their fellow students. So the 【小题10】 (add) value of test scores in predicting performance is minimal.

If a college wants to do a better job serving traditionally under-served populations, test optional policies can provide a very useful tool.

One day,Vinod Menon,head of the physics department at City College of New York,was going through his office mails.He opened a box,only 【小题1】(find)$180,000 with a nameless letter and a return address.Having never seen so much money,he was too shocked to know what to do with it.

City College of New York is one of 【小题2】(productive) public university systems in the United States,and the physics department has played a key role.Three Nobel Prize winners in physics received their education there,and in 1921 Albert Einstein gave one of his first lectures 【小题3】 campus.

“【小题4】(suppose) that you are a bit curious as to why I am doing this,the reason is simple,” the letter read.It continued to explain that many years before,its generous writer 【小题5】(take) advantage of the excellent educational opportunity,available at City College to study physics,earn a master’s degree,and do a long,productive,well-rewarding scientific job.The sender wished to offer the money to poor students learning physics and 【小题6】 sciences.

The return address was to a house in Pensacola,Florida 【小题7】 owners had no idea of the money.The money 【小题8】(put) aside at first,but after 【小题9】 two-month-long research which had found nothing that could link it to 【小题10】(activity) which are not lawful,the leaders of the college decided to keep and make good use of the money.

Dr.Menon,who grew up in India,noted that the gift would provide for two fully-funded scholarships（全额奖学金）every year for ten years,and that he would try to see it go into the hands of the students who had the fewest means-such as immigrants（移民）like him.

Have you ever asked yourself why children go to school? You will probably say that they want to learn languages, history, science and some other knowledge. That’s quite true, but do you know why they learn these 【小题1】(thing)?

We send our children to school to prepare them 【小题2】the future when they grow up and have to work for 【小题3】(they). Nearly everything they study at school has some practical use in their life. But is that 【小题4】only reason why they go to school?

【小题5】(actual), there is more in education than just 【小题6】 (learn) facts. We go to school to learn how to learn, so that when we graduate we can continue to learn. A man 【小题7】 really knows how to learn will always be 【小题8】 (success), because when he has to do something new, he will not only be able to do it well himself, but he will also be able to teach others how to do it in the【小题9】 (good) way. So the purpose of schools is not to teach languages, history, science, etc,【小题10】to teach students the way to learn.