职称英语考试

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Adult Education

Voluntary learning in organized courses bymature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered tomake people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adultsmay want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling， get new skills or job training， find outabout new technological developments， seek betterself-understanding， or develop new talents and skills.

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

Modern adult education for large numbers ofpeople started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the IndustrialRevolution. 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 factorysystem. These and other factors produced a need for further education andre-education of adults.

The earliest programs of organized adulteducation arose in Great Britain in the 1790s， with thefounding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics institute in Glasgow.The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded byBenjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.

People recognize that continued learning isnecessary for most forms of employment today. For example， parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessaryto take part in retraining programs at work of even to learn completely newjobs. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these andother needs.

练习：

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 of adult education， including ____________.

7. Adult education has been made necessary___________.

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

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