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学霸导读 中国在2018 年的PISA 测试中重获全球第一。对于PISA，你了解多少呢？
The 2018 Program for International Student Assessment （ PISA，国际学生评估项目 ） found that high school students from the Chinese mainland ranked No. 1 in all three core subjects.
PISA tests are conducted every three years by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development （ OECD，经济合作与发展组织 ）. The study e 1 what 15-year-olds know in reading， mathematics and science， and what they can do with what they know. Results from PISA a 2 educators and policymakers to learn from the policies and practices applied in other countries.
The f irst PISA was carried out in 2000. China has participated in the study every time since 2009, when students from Shanghai were selected as representatives and came out as champions in all three categories. In 2012, students from Shanghai took the tests again and f inished t 3 in all areas as well.
China’s overall ranking dropped to No. 10 in 2015 when it was represented by Beijing， Shanghai， Jiangsu and Guangdong that year. The country placed 27th in reading， 6th in mathematics and 10th in science then. In the latest survey， students from Beijing， Shanghai， Jiangsu and Zhejiang m 4 to regain （ 重新获得 ） the f irst in all three categories.
Responding to disputes （ 争议 ） that a few eastern regions cannot show the whole educational picture of the world’s most populous （ 人口多的 ） country， the OECD said that each of them is comparable in size to many Western countries， and have a combined population of over 180 million. It added that even ten percent of the most disadvantaged students in these four provinces s 5 better reading skills than the most advantaged students in some countries， and better performance than the average student in OECD countries.
However, the survey also indicated that Chinese students spend the l 6 time—about 57 hours per week—on study. The average f igure among OECD countries is 44.
Besides academic assessments, PISA also asked performers about their well-being. Results from the latest well-being study showed that many students are not happy at school. Only about two-thirds of students across OECD countries said they were s 7 with their lives, a f ive-percent drop from 2015.
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高频词汇
rank /ræŋk/ v. 属于某等级；排列
conduct /kən'dʌkt/ v. 组织；安排
carry out 实施；执行；实行
participate /pɑː 'tɪsɪpeɪt/ v. 参加；参与
respond /rɪ'spɒnd/ v. 回应；做出反应
comparable /'kɒmpərəbl/ adj. 类似的；可比较的
well-being /'wel biː ɪŋ/ n. 健康；安乐；康乐