【题目】The Harrington School is an old one-room schoolhouse in Georgia. The building has not been used in years. Community leaders and even the local historical society thought it wasn’t worth saving. “Just look at it and you could tell it was going to fall any minute, so let’s tear it down, they said.

The Harrington School was built in nineteen twenty-five for black children on St. Simons Island. Amy Roberts well remembers she attended first grade there in nineteen fifty-three. That was a year before the United States Supreme Court ruled that schools had to be racially integrated. A number of states kept blacks from attending school with whites. After the ruling, the children joined white students at St. Simons' other elementary school.

The old schoolhouse continued to be used for social activities and a day care center. By 1970, however, it was empty. Amy Roberts worried that developers might tear it down. So she started the African-American Heritage Coalition to try to save it.

If it's not saved, then eventually you would not know that we existed here on St. Simons. Everything of African-American heritage has been torn down she said.

In 2009 the Harrington School was weeks away from destruction. Then a local historian named Patty Deveau took a closer look. She remembered a movement called the Rosenwald Fund.Georgia historian Jeanne Cyriaque explains, “At the very core of that movement was the involvement of the community, sympathetic whites and philanthropy, merging together to do what today we'd call partnerships.”

Julius Rosenwald was a businessman. In 1915 he donated money to black communities to build their own schools. By the late 20s, the Rosenwald Fund had donated to more than 5,000 educational buildings in 15 states across the South. One-third of rural black children were attending a Rosenwald school.

“This particular school kind of embodies to me what was going on with the communities at the time, because in many African-American communities, it was African-American families that gave land for these schools to be built.” Jeanne Cyriaque said.

Now, preservation architects are developing plans to restore the Harrington School. Amy Roberts and others were surprised by what the experts found about the structure. They went through it and they talked about how sound it was and how, you know, I mean, they'd never seen anything like this. I mean, it was, like, in great shape!

What do you learn about the Harrington School?

It only has one room and is going to fall down.

It was built in 1925 and is poor condition now.

It has not been used since 1954.

Though it was built over 85 years ago, it is still in good condition.

【1】According to the second paragraph, we learn that _______.

the Harrington School was ruled by the United States Supreme Court

the Harrington School used to be a white school mixed with blacks

black children went to separate school before the ruling

the Harrington School was forbidden to be used for racial reasons

【2】The meaning of the underlined word integrated is similar to _______.

mixed

completed

seperated

destroyed

【3】Amy Roberts is anything but _______.

a black woman

an African-American

a clerk who used to work in the African-American Heritage Coalition

a woman in her sixties

【4】Which of the following titles do you think would attract the readers most?

A school with a Long History

Saving a School, and Its History

Saving the African-American Heritage

The Harrington School, an African-American Heritage

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