1. The best title for the passage could be:
A. A Flight for Change
B. Nineteenth - the Century of Reform
C. American Education in the Beginning of the 19th Century
D. The Beginnings of Reform in American Education
2. The passage implied that to go to a private school, a student needed:
A. a high level of intelligence
B. a strong education background
C. a lot of money
D. good grades
3. The word "desperately" in the passage mostly means:
A. parlty
B. urgently
C. completely
D. obviously
4. The author puts the word "waste" in quotation maeks because he:
A. does not want students to waste their time on education
B. is quoting someone else who said that education was a waste of time
C. wants to emphasize how much time is wasted on education
D. thinks that education is not really a waste of time.
5. According to the passage, Horace Mann wanted a better educational system for American because:
A. education at the time was so cheap
B. all citizens should be educated ina republic
C. people had nothing else to do except go to school
D. Massachusetts residents needed something to do with their spare time
6. The word "reformers" in the passgae mostly means:
A. people who work for government
B. people who really enjoy teaching
C. people who try to change things for the better
D. people who believe that education is wasted
7. The word "citizen" in the passage mostly means:
A. a person who live in a particular city
B. a person who works in a particular place
C. a person who has the legal right to belong to a perticular country
D. a person who works,especially one who does a particular kind of work
8. From 1837 to 1848, Horace Mann:
A. worked as a headmaster in a school in the state of Massachusetts
B. raised money for the education development in Massachusetts
C. funded many projects to improve the educational systems for Americans
D. managed education in the state of Massachusetts
9. According to the passage, which sentence isn't true?
A. Horace Mann began raising teachers' salaries.
B. Horace Mann suggested schools prepare children for their life's work.
C. Horace Mann brought about changes in many shools in the United States
D. Horace Mann was a famous US educational reformer
10. According to the passage, which of the following is a change that Horace Mann instituted?
A. Better teacher training.
B. The five-month shool year
C. Increased pay for students
D. The matching of other districts' policies.