阅读下面这篇短文,短文后有2项测试任务:(1)第23~26题要求从所给的6个选项中为第2—5段每段选择1个正确的小标题;(2)第27~30题要求从所给的6个选项中选择4个正确选项,分别完成每个句子。 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’ institute in Glasgow.
The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by
Benjamin Franklin and some friends 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. Some adults want to learn______.