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| Started in 1636 , Harvard University is the oldest of all the many colleges and universities in the United States . Yale , Princeton , Columbia and Dartmouth were opened soon after Harvard . In the early years , these schools were much similar . Only young men went to colleges . All the students studied the same subjects , and everyone learned Latin , Greek and Hebrew . Little was known about science then , and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world . When the students left school , 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 . In 1825 , besides Latin and Greek , Harvard began teaching modern languages , such as French and German . Soon it began teaching American history . As knowledge increased , Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects . Students were all owed to choose the subjects that interested them . Today , there are many different kinds of colleges and universities . Most of them are made up of smaller schools that deal with (涉及) special fields of learning . There's so much to learn that one kind of school can't offer it all . |
| 1. The oldest university in the US is . |
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| A. Columbia B. Harvard C. Princeton D. Yale |
| 2. From the second paragraph, we can see that in the early years, . |
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| A. those colleges and universities were the same B. people , young or old , might study in the colleges C. students studied only some languages and science D. when the students finished their school , they became lawyers or teachers |
| 3. Modern languages that Harvard taught in 1825 were . |
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| A. Latin and Greek B. French and German C. American history and German D. Latin , Greek , French and German |
| 4. As knowledge increased, colleges began to teach . |
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| A. many new subjects B. law and something about medicine C. everything that was known D. the subjects that interested students |
| 5. On the whole, the passage is about . |
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| A. how to start a university B. how colleges have changed C. the world-famous colleges in America D. what kind of lesson each college teaches |