[填空题]In ancient times, if an Olympian had the honor of winning an event, he was held in high esteem and the rest of his life.

[填空题]In ancient times, if an Olympian had the honor of winning an event, he was held in high esteem and the rest of his life.

[单项选择]In ancient times, the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually included saying poetry 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 with people who had made a special study of the subject. This custom exists today as part of the process of testing candidates(考生) for the doctor’s degree.
Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same questions, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase in population and the development of modern industry around the 19th century. A room full of candidates for a state examination, timed exactly by electronic clocks and carefully watched over by managers, is like a group of workers at a car factory. Certainly, during
A. written examinations were the most important ones
B. the most important examinations were not written
C. students took objective tests
D. all the students were tested on the same question

[单项选择]Since ancient times people have found various ways to preserve meat.
A. eat
B. cook
C. freeze
D. keep

[单项选择]In ancient times wealth was measured and exchanged in things that could be touched: food, tools, and precious metals and stones. Then the barter system was replaced by coins, which still had real value since they were pieces of rare metal. Coins were followed by fiat money, paper notes that have value only because everyone agrees to accept them.
Today electronic monetary systems are gradually being introduced that will transform money into even less tangible forms, reducing it to a series of "bits and bytes", or units of computerized information, going between machines at the speed of light. Already, electronic fund transfer allows money to be instantly sent and received by different banks, companies, and countries through computers and telecommunications devices.
According to the passage, which of the following was the earliest kind of ’exchange of wealth
A. Bartered goods.
B. Fiat money.
C. Coin currency.
D. Intangible forms.

[单项选择]In ancient times, some catastrophic extinction of species occurred ______.
A. sequentially
B. repeatedly
C. naturally
D. intentionally

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In ancient times the most important examinations were spoken, not written. In the schools of ancient Greece and Rome, testing usually consisted of saying poetry 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 with people who had made a special study of the subject. This custom exists today as part of the process of testing candidates(考生) for the doctor’ s degree.
Generally, however, modern examinations are written. The written examination, where all students are tested on the same questions, was probably not known until the nineteenth century. Perhaps it came into existence with the great increase in population and the development of modern industry. A room full of candidates for a state examination, timed exactly by electric clocks and carefully watched over by managers, resembles a group of workers at an automobile factory. Certainly,
A. before the Middle Ages     
B. in Greece or Rome
C. around the 19th century     
D. machines to take tests