Attendingauniversityisanimportantpartofaperson’slife.Today,manypeoplegotoauniversitytostudyandtrainforafuturejobinsubjectslikelaw,medicine,oreducation.Buttheuniversityisnotamoderninvention.Ithasahistorythatisoverathousandyearsold. Theworld’soldestuniversity,Al-Azhar,isinCairo,Egypt.ItwasfirstbuiltasamosqueinA.D.972.Afewyearslater,learnersandteachersbeganmeetinginthemosquein“tutoringcircles”.Theyreadandtalkedaboutthesubjectoflaw.Around988,leadersinthecityofCairodecidedtocreateaschoolforhigherlearningandtheUniversityofAl-Azharwasfounded. AtAl-Azhar,thereweremanyuniversity‘firsts.’Courseswerecreated.TheearliestonestaughtatAl-Azharwereinlawandreligion.Inacourse,studentsreadandstudiedwiththeteacher,buttherewasalsofreediscussion.Often,studentsandteacherstalkedaboutatopic,andtherewasno‘right’answer.Finally,scholarsfromaroundtheworldcametoAl-Azhartoteachanddoresearch.Attheuniversity,peoplestudiedthepast,butitwasalsoaplaceforsharingnewideas. Overathousandyearslater,Al-Azharisstillanimportantuniversityintheworld.Itslibrarycontainsmorethan250,000oftheworld’soldestandmostvaluablebooks.Today,manyoftheworld’smostimportantuniversitiessuchasOxfordandHarvardstillfollowthetraditionsstartedatAl-Azhar. 小题1:What’sthispassagemainlyabout? |
A.Thehistoryoftheworld’soldestuniversity. |
B.Theimportanceofattendingauniversity. |
C.Therelationshipbetweenuniversityandfuturejob. |
D.Theinventionofamodernuniversity. |
小题2:Thefirstuniversitywasfoundedover_____yearsago.
A.ahundrend | B.hundredsof | C.athousand | D.thousandsof |
小题3:Theoldestuniversityintheworldis_____.
A.Oxford | B.Cambridge | C.Harvard | D.Al-Azhar |
小题4:Whatdoestheunderlinedword“course”meaninthispassage?
A.Aseriesoflessons. C.Aperiodoftime.
C.Aseriesof