阅读理解
In1972theAmericanCouncilonEducationpublishedfortypagesoffactsaboutcollegefreshmenintheUnitedStates.Theyhadgotthefactsfromthousandsofstudentsintheirfirstyearofuniversitystudybyaskingsuchquestionsasthese:
1．HowoldwillyoubeonDecember31ofthisyear?
2．Howmanymilesisthiscollegefromyourparents'home?
3．Wheredidyoulivewhileyouweregrowingup?
4．Areyourparentsstillliving,andaretheystillmarriedtoeachother?
5．Howwouldyoudescribeyourpresentpoliticalviews?
Theanswerstothesequestionsshowedthatseventy-eightpercentofthefreshmenwereeighteenyearsold,andfourteenpercentwerenineteen.Itisquiteunusualforafreshmentobeyoungerthaneighteenorolderthannineteen.
Morethanhalfofthefreshmenwerestudyingincollegesfarfromtheirparents'homes;onlyfortypercentwerewithinadistanceoffiftymilesfromhome.
Thereportshowedthatmostcollegestudentshadgrownupinornearcities.Aboutone-fifthofthefreshmenreportedthattheyhadbeenbroughtupinsmalltowns;onlysevenpercentcamefromfarmfamilies.
Rathersurprisingly,thereportshowedthatonlyeightpercentofthefreshmenhadparentswhoweredivorced(离婚)orseparated.Inmostcases,bothparentswerestillaliveandstillmarriedtoeachother.
Politically,morethanathirdofthestudentsdescribedtheirviewsas“liberal”(自由的).Onlysixteenpercentconsideredthemselves“conservative”(保守的).Thelargegroup,however,weretheforty-sixpercentwhodescribedtheirpoliticsas“middleoftheroad”.Veryfewcalledtheirpoliticalviews“farleft”or“farright”.
(1)TheAmericanCouncilonEducationlearnedthesefactsfrom________.
[]
A．freshmenofacertainuniversity
B．studentsandtheirparents
C．studentsandtheirteachers
D．first-yearstudentsonly
(2)AtwhatagedotheAmericansusuallybegintheircollegestudy?
[]
[]
A．inthecountryside
B．inornearlargecities
