"People can look at things and be curious about them, but if you are an explorer you want to know why and how and maybe develop an experiment to test the hypothesis."

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There's a Midterm. That will be a short answer test that's intended to give you a chance to show how diligently you've been reading and coming to class.

我们会有一个期中考，会有一张简答问卷,目的是能够让你们表现出,你们的勤劳，用功阅读和按时上课。

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and if you're a good test taker, and you know how to take the test

所以如果你善于考试，知道如何应试

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Each test comes in advance with a prep sheet telling you how to get ready for that particular test.

每次测试前都会给你们考点,那里面会告诉你如何备考

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And that's basically trying to make sure our program has not regressed, as to say, gone backwards in how well it works. And so we always test it on everything.

这只是从根本上确保,我们的程序并没往后退，也就是说在可用性方面倒退了,因此我们在任何东西上,都要进行这样的测试。

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Well, one answer is because what I-- how I score on that test isn't going to tell you anything about me It's not going to relate to my grades It's not going to relate to how well I'm liked ? How do we know the SAT is useful?

一个原因是,我在那个测试中的得分,不会透露出任何我的信息,与我的学习成绩无关,也不会说明我有多受欢迎,我们怎么知道SAT有没有用？

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It tells you how you might test something but it doesn't tell you how to.

它告诉你怎么才可能去检查一些事儿,但是它没有说怎样检查。

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