Apart from provision for mature students at universities, courses are provided by further education colleges, adult education centers, residential colleges, the Open Universities and various other bodies including a number of voluntary organizations. Most of the provision is made by the local education authorities in a wide variety of establishments, including schools used for adult evening classes and community schools which provide educational, social and cultural opportunities for the wider community. Most courses are part-time. Local authorities also maintain or aid many courses lasting between a weekend and a fortnight. Long-term residential colleges, grant-aided (受补助的) by central government departments, provide courses of one or two years and aim to provided a liberal education without academic entry tests. Most students admitted are entitled to full maintenance grants.

36. One of the tasks of continuing education is _________.
○A. to help employees get promoted and pay increased
○B. to widen employees’ knowledge of their country’s history
○C. to make employees’ spare time activities rich and varied
○D. to keep employees well informed of recent technological developments


37. The word “initiatives” in the 1st paragraph, most probably means _______.
○A.　plans
○B. offers
○C. measures
○D. proposals


38. The two programmes launched by the British government are designed for ____.
○A.　students and teachers in colleges and universities
○B. the employed and unemployed respectively
○C. the government employees in Britain
○D. the disadvantaged and the disable


39. Which of the following is mentioned in the passage?
○A.　Higher education might be replaced by other types of education.
○B. Many British young people can receive higher education without entrance examinations.
○C. Only those who pass academic entry tests can get financial aid from the central government.
○D. The aid for improving adult and continuing education is provided by local and state governments.


40. It can be concluded from the passage that ___________.
○A.　high schools should produce more skilled students
○B. adult education will probably become the main type of education in Britain and other developed countries
○C. the government should attach importance to various types of education to meet the needs of the changing world
○D. higher education should meet the demands of the development of science and technology



Passage 2
Impressionism (印象主义)in painting developed in the late nineteenth century in French. It began with a loosely structured group of painters who together mainly to exhibit their paintings. Their art was characterized by the attempt to depict (描绘) light and movement by using pure broke color. The movement began with four friends who met in a cafe: Monet, Renoir, Sisley, and Bazille. They were reacting against the academic standards of their time and the romantic emphasis on emotion as a subject matter. They rejected the role of imagination in art. Instead, they observed nature closely, painting with a scientific interest in visual phenomena. Their subject matter was as diverse as their personalities. Monet and Sisley painted landscapes with changing effects of light, and Renoir painted idealized women and children. The works of impressionists were received with hostility until the 1920s. By the 1930s impressionism had a cult following, and by the 1950s even the least important works by people associated with the movement commanded enormous prices.

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