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河南省2020年普通高中招生英语预测考试卷(八)(含听力音频)
Started in 1636, Harvard University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States.
In the early years, these schools were much alike. Only young men went to college. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers.
In 1782, Harvard started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard's law school. Soon it began teaching American history.
As knowledge increased, Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects.
Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all.
A. In 1825. besides Latin and Greek, Harvard began teaching modern languages, such as French and German.
B. Most of them are made up of smaller schools
C. Yale, Princeton and Columbia were opened soon after Harvard
D Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them
E. All the students studied the same subjects, and everyone learned Latin, Greek and Hebrew
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Everyone in the carriage looked unhappy with the young man. Mr. White thought that he would not be the only person to pay more. {#blank#}4{#/blank#}If so, he was wrong. For when the train had traveled an hour, the door opened and the ticket-collector came into the carriage. Of course, Mr. White had to pay more money for his ticket. But to his great surprise, one by one each of the four men held out a second-class ticket. {#blank#}5{#/blank#} He was the only man who had the first-class ticket in the carriage.
A. Only the young man sat there quietly. B. He was a young man in old and dirty clothes. C. Maybe the young man hoped that the ticket-collector would never come. D. he found that there were some empty seats in the first-class carriages. E. He had to stand up all the way. |
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