2010年职称英语综合类(C级)考试阅读理解真题(2)

　　第2篇
　　One-room Schools
　　One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States，and the mention of them makespeople feel a vague long for the way things were．One-room schools are an endangered species，however．For more than a hundred years，one-room schools have been systematically shut down andtheir students sent away to centralized schools．As recently as 1930 there were 149，000 one-roomschools in the United States．By 1970 there were 1，800．Today，of nearly 800 remaining one-roomschools．more than 350 are in Nebraska．The rest are scattered through a few other states that haveon their road maps wide-open spaces between towns．
　　Now that there are hardly any left，educators are beginning to think that maybe there is some-thing yet to be learned from one-room schools，something that served the pioneers that might serve aswell today．Progressive educators have come up with progressive-sounding names like"peer-groupteaching"and"multi-age grouping"for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-roomschools．In a one-room school the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of thetime teaching someone else．A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade level in math and a third-gradelevel in English without the stigma associated with being left back or the pressures of being skippedahead．A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separatedfrom the other pupils．In larger urban and suburban schools today．this is called"mainstreaming．"A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes clear why SO many parentsfeel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one-roomschoo1．
　　36．We learn from the first paragraph that one-room schools
　　A．are the best in Nebraska．
　　B．are becoming more and more centralized．
　　C．have has a strong influence on American people．
　　D．need to be shut down．
　　37．One-room schools are in danger of disappearing because
　　A．there has been a trend towards centralization．
　　B．they cannot get top students．
　　C．they exist only in one state．
　　D．children have to teach themselves．
　　38．A major characteristic of the one-room school system is that
　　A．1earning is not limited to one grade level．
　　B．pupils mostly study math and English．
　　C．some children have to be left back．
　　D．teachers are always busy．
　　39．It can be learned from paragraph 2 that many parents in Nebraska
　　A．don't like centralized schools
　　B．come from other states．
　　C．received education in one-room schools．
　　D．prefer rural life．
　　40．What is the author's attitude towards one．room schools?
　　A．Critical． B．Humorous．
　　C．Angry．D．Praising．