It is really a surprise that after hundreds of years, educationists have still failed to design anything more efficient and reli

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问题     It is really a surprise that after hundreds of years, educationists have still failed to design anything more efficient and reliable than examinations. It is claimed that examinations test what you know, but it is common knowledge that they more often do the exact opposite. They may be a good means of testing memory, or the skills of working rapidly under extreme pressure, but they can tell you nothing about a person’s true ability.
    As anxiety-makers, examinations are second to none. That is because so much depends on them. They are the mark of success or failure in our society. Your whole future may be decided in one fateful day. No one can show his best in worry, or after a sleepless night, yet this is precisely what the examination system expects him to do.
    A good education should, among other things, train you to think for yourself. The examination system, however, does anything but that. What has to be learnt is laid down by a syllabus(教学大纲 ) , so the student is encouraged to memorize. Examinations do not motivate a student to read widely, and they do not enable him to seek more and more knowledge. Furthermore, teachers themselves are often judged by the results of their students’ examinations. Consequently, they have to train their students to master exam techniques which they dislike. The most successful candidates are not always the best educated but the best trained.
    The results on which so much depends are often nothing more than a subjective assessment by some anonymous(匿名的) examiners. They certainly make mistakes, because they have to mark mountains of scripts(答卷) in a limited amount of time. They work under the same sort of pressure as the candidates.
Which statement is NOT mentioned in the passage?

选项 A、Examinations can make students anxious.
B、The examiners might make mistakes in marking.
C、Teachers’ work is judged based on the results of examinations.
D、Tools better than examinations to test students’ ability have been found.

答案D

解析 推理判断题。由文章第一段第一句“It is really a surprise that…still failed to design anything more efficient and reliable than examinations.”可知,数百年后,教育家们还是没有找到比考试更为可靠和有效的手段。由此可知,D项说法与原文不符。故选D。
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