学位英语

Adult Education

1 Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self-understanding, or develop new talents and skills.

2 This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs and professional associations.

3 Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. 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. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.

4 The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics' institution in Glasgow. Benjamin Franklin and some friends found the earliest adult education institution in the U.S. in Philadelphia in 1727.

5 People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.

1. Paragraph 2___________ A. Necessity for developing adult education

B. Early days of adult education

2. Paragraph 3 ___________C. Ways of receiving adult education

D. Growth of adult education

3. Paragraph 4 ___________E. Institutions of adult education

F. Definition of adult education

4. Paragraph 5 ___________

5. Some adults want to learn _____________.

6. There are various forms of adult education, including _____________.

7. Adult education has been made necessary by _____________.

8. The earliest organized adult education originated in _____________.

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

参考答案:

1.C.解题思路：该段中列举了“图书馆”，“函授课”等教育方式，所以C是答案。

2.A.解题思路：该段段首句也较长，转而看段尾句，发现段尾句中有“need”对应A中的necessity(需要)。

3.B.解题思路：该段只有两句，但两句中都提到了“earliest”(最早的)，该词对应B中的early days(早期)。

4. D.解题思路：该段段首句很长，所以转而看段尾句，该句用了“spring up”(出现) ，该词对应D中的growth(发展情况)。

5. D.首先结合搭配句意判断，选项中只有A和D合适。再利用“learn”作为答案线索词判断答案相关句在第1段的最后一句：Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological developments, seek better self-understanding, or develop new talents and skills.

6. B.该题可直接借助句意判断答案为B。如果借助原文：利用“forms”作为答案线索词，则在第2段的第1句中找到答案相关句：This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting.

7. A.利用“necessary”作为答案线索词，则在第3段的最后一句找到答案相关句：These and other factors(great economic and social changes) produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.

8. E.该题可直接借助搭配句意选择答案。如果借助原文：利用“originated”作为答案线索词，这样在第4段的第1句找到答案相关句：The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s

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