阅读下列材料，从所给的六个选项 (A、B、C、D
E和F) 中，选出符合各小题要求的最佳选项，并在答题卷上将该项涂黑。选项中有一项
多余选项。

A. Necessity for developing adult education B. Early days of adult education C. Ways of receiving adult education D. Popularity of adult education E. Institutions of adult education F. Functions of adult education

 
_____ Voluntary learning in organized courses by mature men and women is called adult education. Such education is offered to make people able to enlarge and interpret their experience as adults. Adults may want to study something which they missed in earlier schooling, get new skills or job training, find out about new technological 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 guidance through the use of libraries, correspondence courses, or broadcasting. It may also be acquired collectively in schools and colleges, study groups, workshops, clubs, and professional associations.
_____Modern adult education for large numbers of people started in the 18^th and 19^th centuries with the rise of the Industrial Revolution.Great economic and social changes were taking place: people were moving from rural areas to cities; new types of work were being created in an expanding factory system. These and other factors produced a need for further education and re-education of adults.
____The earliest programs of organized adult education arose in Great Britain in the 1790s, with the founding of an adult school in Nottingham and a mechanics’ institute in Glasgow. The earliest adult education institution in the United States was founded by Benjamin Franklin and some friends in Philadelphia in 1727.
_____People recognize that continued learning is necessary for most forms of employment today. 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. Adult education programs are springing up constantly to meet these and other needs.