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Adult Education
1 Voluntary learning in organizedcourses by mature men and women is called adult education.Such education isoffered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience asadults.Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlierschooling,get new skills or job training,find out about new technologicaldevelopments,seek better self-understanding,or develop new talents andskills.
2 This kind of education may be inthe form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries,correspondence course,or broadcasting.It may also be acquired collectively inschools and colleges,study groups,workshops,clubs,and professionalassociations.
3 Modern adult education for largenumbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of theIndustrial Revolution.Great economic and social changes were taking place:people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were beingcreated in an expanding factory system.These and other factors produced a needfor further education and re-education of adults.
4 The earliest programs oforganized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s,with thefounding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute inGlasgow.The earliest adult education institution in the United States wasfounded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.
5 People recognize that continuedlearning is necessary for most forms of employment today.For example,parts ofthe adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part inretraining programs at work of even to learn completely new jobs.Adulteducation programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.
1.Paragraph 2__________.
2.Paragraph 3__________.
3.Paragraph 4__________.
4.Paragraph 5__________.
A.Necessity for developing adult education
B.Early days of adult education
C.Ways of receiving adult education
D.Growth of adult education
E.Institutions of adult education
F.Definition of adult education
5.Some adults want to learn_______________.
6.There are various forms ofadult education,including ____________.
7.Adult education has been madenecessary ___________.
8.The earliest organized adulteducation _______________.
A.by social and economic changes
B.guided self-study and correspondence courses
C.by studying together with children
D.what they did not manage to learn earlier
E.dates back to the eighteenth century
F.mass production
1.Paragraph 2__________.
A.Necessity for developing adult education
B.Early days of adult education
C.Ways of receiving adult education
D.Growth of adult education
E.Institutions of adult education
F.Definition of adult education
正确答案：C
答案解析：本段的主题可以从第一句看出，This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries,correspondence course,or broadcasting.说的是这种教育可以通过多种途径以自学的方式去实现，接下来又接着说也可以通过去学校参见集体的学习等途径实现，因此，很明显是在说Ways of receiving adult education，即答案为C。
2.Paragraph 3__________.
A.Necessity for developing adult education
B.Early days of adult education
C.Ways of receiving adult education
D.Growth of adult education
E.Institutions of adult education
F.Definition of adult education
正确答案：A
答案解析：本段的主题句是最后一句：These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.这个句子是本段的结论句，以上的内容则是具体说人们进行进一步学习和深造的必要性，故答案为A。
3.Paragraph 4__________.
A.Necessity for developing adult education
B.Early days of adult education
C.Ways of receiving adult education
D.Growth of adult education
E.Institutions of adult education
F.Definition of adult education
正确答案：B
答案解析：本段一共包括两个长句，通过观察这两个句子的前半句：The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s和The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded，可以看出，都是谈论最早成人教育的情况，因此答案为B。
4.Paragraph 5__________.
A.Necessity for developing adult education
B.Early days of adult education
C.Ways of receiving adult education
D.Growth of adult education
E.Institutions of adult education
F.Definition of adult education
正确答案：D
答案解析：本段的主题句是最后一个句子：Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs，是说成人教育正在不断的发展，以满足现代人们工作的需要，故答案为D。
5.Some adults want to learn _______________.
A.by social and economic changes
B.guided self-study and correspondence courses
C.by studying together with children
D.what they did not manage to learn earlier
E.dates back to the eighteenth century
F.mass production
正确答案：D
答案解析：根据句子的结构分析，这里应该填名词性的成分，题干的意思是：一些成年人想学...。这个句子可以从第一段的第三句中得出答案，Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling，意思是说“成人可以学习他们早期上学时没有学到的知识”，want to learn是want to study的同义表述，what they did not manage to learn earlier是something which they missed in earlier schooling的同义表述，故答案为D。
6.There are various forms of adult education,including ____________.
A.by social and economic changes
B.guided self-study and correspondence courses
C.by studying together with children
D.what they did not manage to learn earlier
E.dates back to the eighteenth century
F.mass production
正确答案：B
答案解析：本题是考查成人教育的学习方式的，应该从第二段中寻找答案。第二段中提到的学习方式有： in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries,correspondence course,or broadcasting，观察几个选项，B中出现了这些词，即原词重现，故答案为B。
7.Adult education has been made necessary ___________.
A.by social and economic changes
B.guided self-study and correspondence courses
C.by studying together with children
D.what they did not manage to learn earlier
E.dates back to the eighteenth century
F.mass production
正确答案：A
答案解析：本句出自第三段，问的是成人教育成为必要的原因是什么。看到这句：Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system.可以看出，因为巨大的政治和经济变化，促使成人教育成为必然。故答案为A。
8.The earliest organized adult education _______________.
A.by social and economic changes
B.guided self-study and correspondence courses
C.by studying together with children
D.what they did not manage to learn earlier
E.dates back to the eighteenth century
F.mass production
正确答案：E
答案解析：本题是问关于最早的成人教育，这个信息可以从倒数第二段得知。The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s，最早的有关成人教育的项目是在1790s开始的，也就是18世纪，故答案为E。dates back to表示“追溯到”。
