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Startedin1636HarvardUniversityistheoldestofallthemanycollegesanduniversitiesintheUnited
States.YalePrincetonColumbiaandDartmouthwereopenedsoonafterHarvard.
Intheearlyyearstheseschoolsweremuchsimilar.Onlyyoungmenwenttocolleges.Allthestudents
studiedthesamesubjectsandeveryonelearnedLatinGreekandHebrew.Littlewasknownaboutscience
thenandonekindofschoolcouldteacheverythingthatwasknownabouttheworld.Whenthestudentsleft
schoolmostofthembecameministersorteachers.
In1782Harvardstartedamedicalschoolforyoungmenwhowantedtobecomedoctors.Laterlawyers
couldreceivetheirtraininginHarvard'slawschool.In1825besidesLatinandGreekHarvardbeganteaching
modernlanguagessuchasFrenchandGerman.SoonitbeganteachingAmericanhistory.
AsknowledgeincreasedHarvardandothercollegesbegantoteachmanynewsubjects.Studentswereall
owedtochoosethesubjectsthatinterestedthem.
Todaytherearemanydifferentkindsofcollegesanduniversities.Mostofthemaremadeupofsmaller
schoolsthatdealwith(涉及)specialfieldsoflearning.There'ssomuchtolearnthatonekindofschoolcan't
offeritall.
1.TheoldestuniversityintheUSis .
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A.Columbia
B.Harvard
C.Princeton
D.Yale
2.Fromthesecondparagraphwecanseethatintheearlyyears .
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A.thosecollegesanduniversitieswerethesame
B.peopleyoungoroldmightstudyinthecolleges
C.studentsstudiedonlysomelanguagesandscience
D.whenthestudentsfinishedtheirschooltheybecamelawyersorteachers
3.ModernlanguagesthatHarvardtaughtin1825were .
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A.LatinandGreek
B.FrenchandGerman
C.AmericanhistoryandGerman
D.LatinGreekFrenchandGerman
4.Asknowledgeincreasedcollegesbegantoteach .
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A.manynewsubjects
B.lawandsomethingaboutmedicine
C.ever