Overall these students rank in the 21st percentile on the tests—that is, they did worse than 79 per cent of all children taking the test.

这些考生的总体百分位排名占第21位。就是说，79%的应试儿童比他们考得好。

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I thought, at least she wasn't taking the test!

我想，至少她不参加考试！

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The first group listened to a Mozart sonata before taking the test.

第一组在测试前聆听了莫扎特的奏鸣曲。

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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。

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I definitely practiced taking the test

为了考试我还是做了一些练习的。

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But most have no data proving that taking the test will improve your health or lengthen your life.

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It means the 4-year-olds taking the test must be able to distinguish a striped hexagon from a striped octagon from another striped octagon whose stripes are in the opposite direction.

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