Exercise
1. According to the passage, which is the oldest university in the United States?
2. When the student graduated, what did most of them become?
3. Why Harvard and other colleges began to teach many new subjects?
4. All the students the same subjects and everyone Latin and Greek. Little was known about then, and one kind of school could teach that was known about the world.
5. In 1782, Harvard started a school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, could receive their training in Harvard Law School. In 1825,Harvard began teaching modern , such as French and German, as well as Latin and Greek.
6. New state universities began to teach such subjects as farming, and business. Today, there are many different kinds of and universities. Most of them are divided into smaller that deal with special fields of learning.
背景信息
哈佛大学建于1636年,坐落在马萨诸塞州的坎布里奇,是美国最古老的私立高等学府,也是美国和世界上最富盛名的大学之一。因建校委员会的70名委员都在英国剑桥大学受过高等教育,该校起初被称为“剑桥”,学校所在地也被取名为“坎布里奇”。1638年,约翰•哈佛这位建校委员将其一半财产和一个图书馆捐赠给学校。后来,为了纪念他,学校更名为“哈佛”,并为其塑立铜像。哈佛校园里的教学楼、图书馆、博物馆、宿舍等建筑物。大多以捐赠者的名字命名。1780年,哈佛学院更名为哈佛大学。学校学生数由最初的9名增加至现在的18,000多名,其中本科生6,684人。
Words & Phrases 词语与短语
Words 词语
alike 相像的
college 学院
engineering 工程学
field 领域
graduate 毕业
interest 使产生兴趣
Phrases 词组
as well as 也
be divided into… 被分为……
deal with 涉及
know about 了解
make…into… 使……成为……
soon after 不久之后
such as 例如
Sentence Pattern 句型
There is so much to learn that one kind of school cannot offer it all. 人们需要学习的知识太多了,一种学校难以提供那么多的课程。
There is so much …that… 有太多……以至于……