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阅读下面的短文，然后按照要求写一篇150词左右的英语短文。
The Use of Examinations
A good education should make people think for themselves. But the exam can never do anything like that.
First, examinations are second to none because it brings anxiety to students. As soon as a child begins school, he enters a world of terrible competition.
Second, exams do not interest students to read or to learn widely. They do not help students to look for more and more knowledge, but try to put as much as possible into the students’ head.
Third, they lower the standards of teaching, for they do not give any freedom to teachers to decide what to teach. Teachers themselves have no choice but to train their students in exam techniques. The most successful students are not always the best educated but the best trained in the technique of exams.
Fourth, they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability. The exams are often nothing more than a subjective assessment(主观评价) by some examiners.
However, if there are no exams, few students or even no one will do any revision or study!
【写作内容】
1 以约30个词概括上述短文的主要内容。
2 以约120个词围绕现行考试成绩与能力之间关系，谈谈你的想法，内容包括：
（1）简要描述你自己考试前的心态或心情。
（2）谈谈你是如何为考试做准备的？效果如何？
（3）谈谈你对考试这一检测手段的看法。
【写作要求】
可以使用实例或其他论述方法支持你的观点，也可以参照阅读材料的内容，但不得直接引用原文中的句子。