单选题 In the 1997 general-election campaign, "Education, Education" was Tony Blair"s pet phrase. Times change quickly. Education is going rapidly out of fashion. "Learning" (to be exact, "lifelong learning") is New Labour"s new buzzword (时髦语). The shift from "education" to "learning" reflects more than a change of language. It stems from both educational research and left-wing ideas. During the 1980s, British educationalists got some new American ideas. One was the notion that traditional examinations do not test the full range of people"s abilities. Another was the belief that skills are not necessarily learned from teachers in a conventional classroom. People can pick them up in all sorts of ways.
All this echoed left-wing ideas that traditional teaching methods were not sufficiently adaptable to the needs of individual learners. Advocates of lifelong learning argue that it merely describes what has changed in education in the past decade. And there are now hundreds of schemes in which pupils learn outside the classroom.
Until now, education has been changing from below. In the next few weeks, the government will help from above. One of its main projects for lifelong learning is about to begin its first pilot programs. With funding of $44 million in its first year, it will coordinate a new network of "learning centers" throughout the country. Traditional institutions, such as schools and colleges, will provide training at some nontraditional places of learning, such as supermarkets, pubs, and churches. The theory is that in such places students will feel more at ease, and therefore will be better motivated, than in a classroom.
The new schemes allow consumers of education to exercise complete choice over where, what and when they learn. In the rest of the state-run education sectors (部门), the government still seems to be committed to restricting choices as much as possible. If these programs succeed, they could improve the skills of Britain"s workforce.

单选题 According to the writer, the shift from "education" to "learning" ______.

【正确答案】 D

【答案解析】[解析] 此题答案见第一段：The shift from "education" to "learning" reflects more than a change of language.(从“教育”到“学习”反映的不只是一个语言上的变化)。其关键词语为如何理解more than(不仅仅是，远远不止是)的含义，如Making tea is far more than putting tea into the boiled water.(沏茶远远不是只将茶叶放入开水当中。)故选项D正确。

单选题 All the following statements are true EXCEPT that ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 此题答案见第三段：Traditional institutions, such as schools and colleges, will provide training at some non-traditional places of learning, such as supermarkets, pubs, and churches. The theory is that in such places students will feel more at ease, and therefore will be better motivated, than in a classroom.由此不难看出，只有选项B与文章内容不符。

单选题 It can be inferred from the passage that the new projects ______.

单选题 In the second paragraph, the writer suggests that ______.

【正确答案】 B

【答案解析】[解析] 回答该问题要注意问题的范围。选项A，C，D都是第一段所涉及的内容，而此题所涉及的是文章第二段的内容：All this echoed left wing ideas that traditional teaching methods were not sufficiently adaptable to the needs of individual learners.这是左翼的观点。Advocates of lifelong learning argue that it merely describes what has changed in education in the past decade.这是终身学习倡导者的观点。And there are now hundreds of schemes in which pupils learn outside the classroom.这是存在的现实。第一句里的this和第二句里的it指代的都是上一段中所说的the shift from "education" to "learning"，以上三个句子综合起来清楚地传递了这样一条信息：教室并不是学生学习的唯一场所，故选项B正确。