It says the test measures the language skills of people working in an international environment.

VOA: special.2009.01.15

Important lesson, so that there would be some predictability in the results and I would have some, if you will, smoke test for knowing whether or not I was getting, my code seemed to be working.

这很重要，因为这样我就可以预测,结果会是多少了，如果你愿意，我们可以做烟气试验,来看我的代码是否工作正常。

麻省理工公开课 - 计算机科学及编程导论课程节选

Otherwise, we don't have enough seats, or we don't have enough test papers and so on. By the way, on the tests, you will be getting tomorrow these handouts that you can use in working the homeworks , so when you are taking the test, you are allowed to bring in the copy of the periodic table of the elements.

否则，我们就没有足够的座位，或者没有足够的考试卷子,顺便说一下，在测试当中，你们明天会拿到这些讲义,就可以用来做作业了,当你们在做测试时，你们可以带来,元素周期表。

麻省理工公开课 - 固态化学导论课程节选

That is precisely what we are doing." The National Center on Education and the Economy will be working with eight states on a project to test board examination systems.

VOA: special.2010.02.25

On the other side of town, scientists are working on a genetic test they hope will cut the time it takes to diagnose MDR-TB from 70 days to two days.

VOA: standard.2010.07.12