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　　One-room schools are part of the United States, and the mention of them makes people feel a vague longing 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 the 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-spaces between towns. 　　1. It is implied in the passage that many educators and parents today feel that one-room schools 　　B)are the best in Nebraska. 　　D)provide good education. 　　A)Because they all exist in one state. 　　C)Because there is a trend towards centralization. 　　3. What is mentioned as a major characteristic of the one-room school in the second paragraph? 　　B)Teachers are always busy. 　　D)Learning is not limited to one grade level at a time. 　　A)Praising. 　　C)Critical. 　　5. It can be inferred from the last sentence that parents living in Nebraska 　　B)received educational in one-room schools. 　　D)come from other states. 　　David Jones and His Salary 　　The 16-year-old works for a small firm In Livepool, where the problem of most young people of his age is finding a job. Davids firm releases two new games for the home computer market each month. 　　He lives with his parents in Livepool. His company has to pay ￡150 a month in taxi fares to get him the five miles to work and back every day because David cannot drive. 　　I suppose ￡35,000 sounds a lot but I hope it will come to more than that his year. He spends some of his money on records and clothes, and gives his mother ￡20 a week. But most of his spare time is spent working. 　　David added: I would like to earn a million and I suppose early retirement is a possibility. You never know when the market might disappear. 　　1. Why is David different from other young people of his age? 　　B) Because he is not unemployed. 　　D) Because he lives at home with his parents. 　　A) finding a bank that will treat him as an adult. 　　C) spending his salary. 　　3. He was employed by the company because 　　B) he had written some computer programs. 　　D) he had learned to use computers at school. 　　A) he did not enjoy school 　　C) he was afraid of getting too old to start computing. 　　5. Why does David think he might retire early? 　　B) Because he wants to stop working when he is a millionaire. 　　D) Because he thinks his firm might go bankrupt.