填空题

Directions: In this section, you will hear a passage three times. When the passage is read for the first time, you should listen carefully for its general idea. When the passage is read for the second time, you are required to fill in the blanks numbered from 36 to 43 with the exact words you have just heard. For blanks numbered from 44 to 46 you are required to fill in the missing information. For these blanks, you can either use the exact words you have just heard or write down the main points in your own words. Finally, when the passage is read for the third time, you should check what you have written.
Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is (36) to make people able to enlarge and (37) their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they (38) in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new (39) developments, seek better self-understanding, or develop new talents and skills.
This kind of education may be in the form of self-study with proper (40) through the use of libraries, correspondence course, or broadcasting. It may also be (41) collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs and professional (42) .
Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18th and 19th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution. Great (43) and social changes were taking place: (44) . These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.
(45) . For example, parts of the adult population in many countries find it necessary to take part in retraining programs at work or even to learn completely new jobs. (46) .