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美文赏析 Good changes? FOR Beijing students hoping to gain an edge (优势)on the national college entrance examinations with their good English skills，it's bad news：English will not be as important as Chinese or math on the big exam starting from 2016. Beijing's education authorities have decided to cut the English test score from 150 to 100 but raise that of Chinese from 150 to 180. “I have been told since I was able to speak that English is very important，but all of a sudden，it isn't any longer，”complained one of my classmates，who usually scores highly on English tests. As Senior 3 students already，we both feel lucky that English will weigh as much as Chinese and math for two more years，but a few of our classmates who don't do well on English tests complained about being born in the wrong year. “What if② I had been born two years later，”said Xiao Li，“or even later，when we might not have to learn English at all.” Teachers in my high school are divided over the changes to gaokao scoring.“The message has been delivered③ that English will not be as important as other subjects，”said English teacher Madame Zheng, adding，halfjokingly，“I might lose my job.” | 
