阅读理解NewYork-AboutonefifthofUScollegeanduniversitiesdon'trequirethestandardentranceexamsknownastheScholasticAptitudeTest(SAT)(学业能力倾向测试)andAmericanCollegeTest(ACCT)formanyhi

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　　New York-About one fifth of US college and universities don't require the standard entrance exams known as the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT)(学业能力倾向测试) and American College Test (ACCT) for many high school applicants(申请者).

　　Fair Test a Cambridge Massachusetts group that supports less trust on testing said last week it counted 383 out of 1 788 four-year schools that don't want entrance exams at all.

　　The last Fair Test court managed three ago proved 280 schools that don't require entrance tests. The total rose for two reasons: More college dropped the exams and the other clarify(澄清) their admission rules.

　　The Fair Teat survey follows last month's call from the University of California to end the SAT admission requirement. President Richard Atkinson wants students judged by want they have learned not how they have scored.

　　Last summer the elite(优秀人才) women's school Mount Holyoke College in South Hadley Massachusetts declared applicants no longer need submit(呈交) scores from the SAT test of reasoning.

　　Some high schools also are questioning the roles of admission test. Still the exams aren't going away . Even as some colleges give up entrance tests others are using or replacing them. Some are giving scores less weight asking instead for essay(论文) references and out-of-school activities.

　　The non-profit(非赢利的) College Broad which owns the SAT notes the majority of colleges and universities still demand a test score for applicants. The SAT and ACT were established decades ago by colleges and universities as a way of. predicting(预告) a student's success.

　　Critics(批评家) have long attacked the test as unfair mainly because whites tend to do better than other groups.

1．From the first paragraph we can know that in America ________.

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A．colleges and universities do not require any entrance exams

B．colleges and universities are short of students

C．colleges and universities don't all need entrance exams

D．colleges and universities entrance exams are too difficult

2．It can be found in this passage that ________.

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A．Fair Test is a test that is more difficult than SAT

B．Fair Test is a test that is much easier than ACT

C．Fair Test is an organization that does research on exams