We may be very pleased with the rapid progress we have made in every field of study. But the way to test a student’s knowledge and ability still ___poor. To a certain degree, it was even as terrible as it was one     ____years ago, and we have done almost       _____to improve our examination system.

It is   ____known that the examination system we are now using may be good way of testing a student’s memory,     ____it can tell you very little about a student’s ability. It does no good        ____students and teachers.

As soon as a child begins school, he enters __world of examinations that will decide his future. So he has to bury himself in mountains of books and papers preparing for the tests.

In fact, a good examination system   ___train a student to think for     ____. But it now does nothing of the sort. So students     _________to remember what is taught. It does not enable them______ more and more knowledge. The students who come        _______in the examination may often not be the best in their future career. The achievements ___they make are not so excellent as we expected.

Besides, examination often drives teachers to “teach to the test”. They are forced to train students   what   to   do   with   the   coming   examination   from   time   to   time,   which   makes   lessons_____. There must be some     ______and better way to test a student’s ability than memory test. That’s what we should do at once.