cases another consideration is how well the student did on college entrance exams. This week in
our Foreign Student Series, we discuss two of these tests: the SAT and the ACT. Most American
schools accept either one.
     The SAT measures reasoning skills in mathematics and language. Students have almost four
hours to complete the SAT. The newest part is an essay. Students have twenty-five minutes to
write an answer to a question.
     The SAT costs forty-one dollars and fifty cents. The international processing charge is twen-
ty-two dollars more. And test-takers in India and Pakistan must also pay a twenty-one dollar and
fifty cent security charge.                                '
     Students may also need to take SAT subject tests in areas like history, science and foreign
language. Subject tests cost eighteen dollars each. The web site for the SAT is collegeboard.com.
     The ACT is an achievement test. It is designed to measure what a student has learned in
school. Students are tested in mathematics, English, reading and science. A writing test is offered
but not required. Without it, the ACT takes about three hours to complete. The essay part adds
thirty minutes.
     The ACT costs forty-nine dollars to take outside the United States. The writing test costs
an additional fourteen dollars. The ACT web site is act.org.
     Recent Chinese news reports suggested that ACT testing would be expanded in China
next year. But an ACT spokesman denies those reports, lie tells us they were based on a
misunderstanding. He says there are no plans to increase the number of testing centers in
China. Ten centers there offer the ACT, but students must first take training classes at those cen-
ters.
     The only place in China where the SAT is offered for Chinese students is in Hong Kong. In-
ternational students living in China have more choices.
    And that's the VOA Special English Education Report, written by Nancy Steinbach. I'm
Doug Johnson.
II. Listen and Complete
 1) reasoning skills            2) language               3) subject tests
 4) science                   5) four hours              6) twenty-five minutes
 7) forty-one dollars and fifty cents                        8) twenty-two dollars
 9) eighteen dollars          10) Hong Kong           11) International students
12) what a student has learned 13) mathematics           14) reading
15) three hours              16) thirty minutes          17) forty-nine dollars
18) fourteen dollars           19) Ten                  20) training classes
III. Listen crud Judoe
 1. False         2. False        3. True          4. False           5. False
LEISURE TIME
    "Listen, boys and girls," said the teacher to the class~ "tomorrow morning we'll have an open-
    paper examination. You can take anything helpful to the classroom with you -- books, dic-
    tionaries and so on."
    No sooner had the teacher stopped speaking than Bob jumped up happily from his seat.
    "Wonderful!" he cried. "Then I'm going to bring my father with me!"
    Answer: He is going to bring his father with him.
2. Once in a physics examination, Mark finished the first question very soon, while his class-
    mates were still thinking about it.
    The question was.' When it thunders, why do we see the lightning first, then hear the thunder

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