初中毕业升学考试(以下简称中考)作为高利害性考试,倍受社会关注,同时对中学教学有着明显的导向作用。尽管适量的课业负担带来的适度压力会提高学生的学习效率,但绝大多数学生感到课业负担过重。尤其是英语学科,学生课业负担过重、两极分化明显。如何发挥中考减轻学生英语学科课业负担的导向作用,关键在命题。一、紧扣课标,回归教材学生课业负担有多个来源,其中最明显的是课外辅导资料泛滥。教师不加选择地使用课外辅导资料,学生盲目地做课外辅导资料上的习题。如果中考命题能够紧紧扣 Junior high school entrance examination (hereinafter referred to as the middle school entrance examination) as a highly harmful examination, much social concern, at the same time on secondary education has a clear guiding role. Although the appropriate amount of homework burden brings moderate pressure will improve students’ learning efficiency, but most students feel the schoolwork overburdened. Especially in English, students are overburdened with academic writing and have obvious polarization. How to play a leading role in reducing the academic burden on English majors in the examination is the key issue. First, closely linked to the standard, return to textbooks Students have multiple sources of schoolwork burden, of which the most obvious is the proliferation of extra-curricular counseling. Teachers use extra-curricular guidance information indiscriminately and students blindly do exercises on extra-curricular information. If the test can be tight deduction