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One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States，and the mention of them makes people feel a longing for“the way things were．”One room schools are an endangered species(种类)，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 spread through a few other states that have on their roadmaps wide-open spaces between towns．
Now that there are hardly any left，educators are beginning to think that maybe there is something yet to be learned from one-room schools，something that served the pioneers that might serve as well today．Progressive educators have come up with new names like“peer-group teaching”and“multi-age grouping”for educational procedures that Occur naturally in the one-room schools．In a one-room school 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 bad name associated with being left back or the pressures of being skipped(超过)ahead．A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other pupils．A few hours in a small school that has only one classroom and it becomes clear why so many parents feel that one of the advantages of living in Nebraska is that their children have to go to a one-room school．

单选题 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 had a strong influence on American people．
D、 need to be shut down．

【正确答案】 C

【答案解析】[解析] 此题属于主旨题，文中第一段第一句话提到，“单室学校已经成为美国遗产的一部分，一提到它就会使人们有一种渴望回到过去的感觉。”也就是说，这种学校对美国人的影响很深，故选C。

单选题 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．

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 文中第一段第三句话提到，“一百多年来，单室学校被渐渐地关闭了，学生被统一派遣到集中化的学校。”故选A。

单选题 A major characteristic of the one-room school system is that

A、 learning 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．

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 文中第二段第四句话提到，“单室学校的学生们要相互教对方，因为老师不停地忙于教其他的学生。”故选A。

单选题 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．

【正确答案】 A

【答案解析】[解析] 文中第二段最后一句提到，“许多父母认为住在内布拉斯加州的好处之一就是孩子能够在但是学校读书可以上单室。”也就是说，家长们都不喜欢集中的学校，故选A。

单选题 What is the author's attitude towards one-room schools?

A、 Critical．
B、 Humorous．
C、 Angry．
D、 Praising．

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 通观整篇文章，作者对单室学校都是持赞同的态度的。例如，在单室学校里，不同级别的孩子们可以相互教学，家长们都喜欢自己的孩子在单室学校学习等，这些描述都反映出作者赞同的态度，故选A。