高考

university (or college) entrance examination (the unified examination for admission to institutions of higher learning)

中考

the entrance examination for senior high school直译为“高等中学入学考试”

High school entrance examination书面化的表达

高考的英文：

National Higher Education Entrance Examination

National College Entrance Exam

college entrance examination

Gaokao

参考例句：

①The failure on the college entrance examination extinguish his faith in future.

高考的失败使他对未来的信念破灭。

②The students' next goal is to be enrolled in a university. The college entrance examination is like a sword of Damocles.

这些学生的下一个目标便是考上大学。高考就像是一把达摩克里斯的利剑高悬的这些学生头上。

③Xiao Li's walking on air these days because he has just passed the entrance examination

"这几天小李高兴得要命,因为他刚通过了高考"

1、national是什么意思：

adj. 国家的；全国的；国民的；民族的；国有的

n. 国民

Here is not merely a nation but a teeming nation of nations

这里不仅是一个国家，而是许多国家丰富的总和。

release of nationality

国籍解除; 放弃（脱离）国籍

a tributary nation

进贡国,2. 辅助的,3. 支流的,n.[C]1. 进贡国,附庸国[(+to)]2. 进贡者,3. 支流

2、higher是什么意思：

adj. [high] 的比较级；更高的

The help are demanding higher wages.

雇工们要求增加工钱。

Responsible to higher authority; accountable.

对上级负责的；应负责任的

You will have to remit this problem to a higher authority.

你得把这个问题提交给上一级。

3、education是什么意思：

n. 教育，训练，教育界人士，有教益的经历

An educator must first educate himself.

教育者必须自己先受教育。

Rural education reform is a hot spot in education research.

农村教育问题是目前教育界研究的一个热点。

social psychology of education.

教育社会心理学 。