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Questionsarebasedonthefollowingpassage: Inancienttimesthemostimportantexaminationswerespoken,notwritten.IntheschoolsofancientGreeceandRome,testingusuallyconsistedofsayingpoetryaloudorgivingspeeches.
IntheEuropeanuniversitiesoftheMiddleAges,studentswhowereworkingforadvanceddegreeshadtodiscussquestionsintheirfieldofstudywithpeoplewhohadmadespecialstudyofthesubject.Thiscustomexiststodayaspartoftheprocessoftestingcandidatesforthedoctordegree.
Generally,however,modernexaminationsarewritten.Thewrittenexamination,whereallstudentsaretestedonthesamequestion,wasprobablynotknownuntilthenineteenthcentury.Perhapsitcameintoexistencewiththegreatincreaseinpopulationandthedevelopmentofmodemindustry.Aroomfullofcandidatesforastateexamination,timedexactlybyelectricclocksandcarefullywatchedoverbymanagers,resemblesagroupofworkersatanautomobilefactory.Generally,duringexaminationsteachersandstudentsareexpectedtoactlikemachines.
Onetypeoftestissometimescalledan"objective"test.Itisintendedtodealwithfacts,notpersonalopinions.Tomakeupanobjectivetesttheteacherwritesaseriesofquestions,eachofwhichhasonlyonecorrectanswer.Alongwitheachquestiontheteacherwritesthecorrectanswerandalsothreestatementsthatlooklikecorrectanswerstostudentswhohavenotlearnedthematerialproperly.
IntheMiddleAgesstudents( ). A.tookobjectivetests
B.specializedinonesubject
C.weretimedbyelectricclocks
D.neverwroteexams
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