One-room schools are part of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing 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 and their students sent away to centralized schools. As recently as 1930 there were 149,000 one-room schools in the United States. By 1970 there were 1,800. Today, of the nearly 800 remaining one-room schools, more than 350 are in Nebraska. The rest are scattered through a few other states that have on their road maps wide-spaces between towns.
　　Now that there are hardly any left, educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something yet to be learned form one-room schools, something that served the pioneers that might serve as well today. Progressive educators have #e up with progressive-sounding names like "peer-group teaching" and "multi-age grouping" for educational procedures that occur naturally in the one-room schools. In a one-room schools the children teach each other because the teacher is busy part of the Time teaching someone else. A fourth grader can work at a fifth-grade level in math and a third-grade level in English without the stigma associated with being left back or the pressures of being skipped ahead. A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other pupils. In larger urban and suburban schools today, this is called "mainstreaming". A few hours is a small school that has only one classroom and it be#es clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska in their children have to go to a one-room school.
　　1. It is implied in the passage that many educators and parents today feel that one-room schools
　　A)need to be shut down.
　　B)are the best in Nebraska.
　　C)are a good example of the good old day.
　　D)provide good education.
　　2. Why are one-room schools in danger of disappearing?
　　A)Because they all exist in one state.
　　B)Because they skip too many children ahead.
　　C)Because there is a trend towards centralization.
　　D)Because there is no fourth-grade level in any of them.
　　3. What is mentioned as a major characteristic of the one-room school in the second paragraph?
　　A)Some children have to be left back.
　　B)Teachers are always busy.
　　C)Pupils have more freedom.
　　D)Learning is not limited to one grade level at a time.
　　4. Which of the following can best describe the author’s toward one-room schools?
　　A)Praising.
　　B)Angry.
　　C)Critical.
　　D)Humorous.
　　5. It can be inferred from the last sentence that parents living in Nebraska
　　A)don’t like centralized schools.
　　B)received educational in one-room schools.
　　C)prefer rural life to urban one.
　　D)#e from other states.
　　参考答案: DCDAA