北京普通成人教育本科学生英语统考试题.doc

北京普通成人教育本科学生英语统考试题
College English Test
Part prehension (40 % )
Directions: There are four passages in this passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A,B, C and should decide on the best choice and mark
the corresponding letter on the Answer Sheet with a single line through the center.
Passage 1
Questions 1 to S are based on the following passage:
In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of sayingpoetry aloud or giving speeches.
In the European universities of the Middle Ages, students who were working for advanced degrees had to discuss questions in their field of study withpeople who had made a special study of the subject,This custom exists today
as part of the process of testing candidates for the doctor's degree.
Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination,where
all students are tested on the same question, was probably notknown until the
eenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with thegreat increase in
population and the development of modern industry. A room full of candidates for a
state examination, timed exactly by electric clocks and carefullywatched over by
managers, resembles a group of workers at an automo- bile factory,Generallg,during
examinations teachers and students areexpected to act like machines.
One lype of test is sometimes called an "objevtive" is intended to deal with
facts. not personal make up an objective test the teacher writes a
sefies of questions, each of which has only one correct with each
question the teacher writs the teacher writes the correct answer and also three
statements that look like correct answers to students who have not learned the waterial properly.
1. In the Middle Ages students______.
objective tests
B. specialized in one subj