Ideas about education are changing in the United States. Education today is not just a high school diploma（文凭）or a college degree. Many adults are not interested in going to college. They are interested in other kinds of learning. For them, learning does not end with a diploma. Continuing education gives these adults the chance to increase their knowledge. It also gives them a chance to improve their old skills or to learn new ones. If they know more or learn more, then they can get a better job or earn more money.

There are usually a large number of classes to choose from. Some adults take classes for fun

or because the class will be useful for them. Other adults take classes to improve their own lives because they want to feel better about themselves. Others can learn how to be good parents , or how to get along with other people.

    There are many chances for adults to continue their learning. Almost any community college or public school system has a continuing education program. There are classes in schools, buildings, or churches. Most classes are in the evening, so working people can attend. The classes are usually small, and they are inexpensive. Thousands of people take continuing education classes each year. They receive no diploma and no grade for most of the classes they attend. For them, learning is something they do because they want to.

1．Attending continuing education classes         .

       A．doesn’t cost much money                    B．in expensive

       C．requires a lot of passes                         D．is free of charge 

2．Lots of people attend continuing education classes because         .

       A．the classes will help them feel better about themselves

       B．there are many courses they can choose from

       C．they can also go to church at the same time

       D．learning is something they are interested in doing

3．What is the main idea of the last Paragraph?

       A．Adults can continue their learning to get a diploma.

       B．Most continuing education classes are in the evening.

       C．Adults have many chances to continue their learning.

       D．Classes are held for working people.

4．We can learn from the passage that          .

       A．college education is not important

       B．adult education is very popular

       C．other kinds of learning are more important than school learning

       D．continuing education classes teach the same courses that are taught in colleges

Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go.   

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the competition for admission to graduate school.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation（谴责）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. Perhaps college education does not make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place.

（Note： Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TWELVE WORDS.）

81. People used to think that going to college could help them ______________.

82. What kind of people does "those who don't fit the pattern" in the 2nd paragraph probably refer to?

83. The author believes that the problems of college education partly arise from the fact that___________.

84. What can we learn about college education from the last paragraph?

Directions: Read the passage carefully. Then answer the questions or complete the statements in the fewest possible words.

The case for college has been accepted without question for more than a generation. All high school graduates ought to go, because college will help them earn more money and learn to be more responsible citizens than those who don’t go. 

But college has never been able to work its magic for everyone. And now that close to half our high school graduates are attending, those who don’t fit the pattern are becoming more and more, and more obvious. College graduates are selling shoes and driving taxis; college students get in the way of each other’s experiments and write false letters of recommendation in the competition for admission to graduate school.

Some observers say the fault is with the young people themselves—they are spoiled and they are expecting too much. But that is a condemnation（谴责）of the students as a whole, and does not explain all campus unhappiness. Others blame the state of the world, and they are partly right. We’ve been told that young people have to go to college because our economy cannot take in an army of untrained eighteen-year-olds. But disappointed graduates are learning that it can no longer take in an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.

Some adventuresome educators and campus watchers have openly begun to suggest that college may not be the best, the proper, the only place for every young person after the completion of high school. Perhaps college education does not make people intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, or quick to learn things—maybe it is just the other way round, and intelligent, ambitious, happy, liberal, quick-learning people are only the ones who have been attracted to college in the first place.

（Note： Answer the questions or complete the statements in NO MORE THAN TWELVE WORDS.）

People used to think that going to college could help them ______________.

What kind of people does "those who don't fit the pattern" in the 2nd paragraph probably refer to?

The author believes that the problems of college education partly arise from the fact that___________.

What can we learn about college education from the last paragraph?