One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague long 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 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-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 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 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 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 "main streaming." 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 ______.
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段第一句话“One-room schools are part of the heritage of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague long for the way things were.”可知，单间房学校对几代美国人产生了影响。
单选题
One-room schools are in danger of disappearing because ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第一段第三句话“one-room schools have been systematically shut down and their students sent away to centralized schools”可知，人们已经有组织地关闭了很多单间房学校，他们的学生已经被送往集中式的学校，所以本题选A。
单选题
A major characteristic of the one-room school system is that ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段内容“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.”可知，一个四年级的学生可以做五年级的数学、三年级的英文。他不会因为被甩到后面而丢脸，或是因为被超过而感到有压力。由此可知，单间房学校不限制学生。
单选题
It can be learned from paragraph 2 that many parents in Nebraska ______.
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解析] 根据第二段内容可知，本段主要描述了单间房学校的优点，最后提到“A youngster with a learning disability can find his or her own level without being separated from the other pupils”。据此可知，父母不喜欢集中式的学校。
单选题
What is the author"s attitude towards one-room schools?
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解析] 根据本文最后一句话“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”，许多父母感到在内布拉斯加州生活的好处之一是孩子必须上单间房学校。据此可知，作者对单间房学校持赞扬的态度。