“Where is the university?” is a question many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one colleges. Cambridge is already a developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.

   In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over 100000. Many young students want to study at Cambridge. Thousands of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.

After which year did the town really begin developing?

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• What might be the most suitable title for this reading passage?

• When she published her first book, Carson was closest to the age of .........

• The word "it" in paragraph 4 refers to .........

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• The changes in the American home mentioned in this passage may ...........

• A nod of the head from the teacher will likely ask his student to __________ what he is saying.

• Why does the writer mention "John F. Kennedy" in line 3?

• Why did the teachers ask each band to play two songs?

• The word “ball” in paragraph 2 probably means ............

• The word “them” in the second paragraph refers to ________.

• What do pads help the players to protect?

• The highlight word “it” in the passage refers to ................

• The word “advantage” in the last paragraph most closely means .................

• According to the passage, writing ...............

• The word “basis” in paragraph 1 is closest in meaning to_________.

• How did Juliette Davidson benefit from the experience of her first job?

• According to the passage, why do ants use different compounds as trail pheromones?

• Which of the following is NOT true, according to the passage?

• According to the passage, students working for their first degree at .............. are called undergraduates.

• Which of the following is NOT mentioned in paragraph 3 about earthquakes?

• The expression “readministration” in this passage refers to ................