英学者呼吁改革公民入籍测试一托福阅读机经背景
8页1、智课网 TOEFL备考资料英学者呼吁改革公民入籍测试一托福阅读机经背景A test taken by around 150,000 would-be British citizens each year is just a bad pub quiz with too much focus on culture and history at the expense of practical knowledge, an academic has said.The Life in the UK test, which must be passed to qualify for indefinite leave to remain in Britain, does not require practical necessities in everyday life, Durham Universitys Dr Thom Brooks said.But it is required that new citizens know trivial facts such as the year Emp
2、eror Claudius invaded Britain, the year that Sake Dean Mahomet launched the first curry house in the country and the age of Big Ben.Brooks, a US immigrant who sat and passed the test in Newcastle-upon-Tyne in 2009, becoming a British citizen in 2011, said the test is a key part of immigration policy but is unfit for purpose in its current form.The Life In The UK test has become a bad pub quiz. It has gone from testing practical trivia to the purely trivial and is a major opportunity lost, he sai
3、d.The biggest surprise is the lack of attention successive governments have paid to ensuring the test is fair and not out of date, a surprise even bigger than the sometimes-shocking questions that can be found on the test, said Brooks, a reader in law at Durham Law School.Many citizens that were born and bred in the UK would struggle to know the answers to many of these questions.Britain will not be more cohesive because more have heard about the Battle of Trafalgar, but rather if future citizen
4、s understand better how to participate in daily British life and make a contribution. The latest edition of the test took effect from 25 March and was based on the third edition of the handbook Life in the United Kingdom.Brooks argues that the test is inconsistent in what it requires new citizens to know. They are not required to know the number of MPs in Westminster but are required to know the number of representatives in the Welsh Assembly, Scottish Parliament and Northern Ireland Assembly.Lo
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