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Câu hỏi: Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the questions from 38 to 42.
Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the worlds universities, came from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Included in the Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more than 100 graduates of England's prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities graduates in the New World were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities that they themselves had had. Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the General Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the following year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne, which was later renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of the present-day university.
When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestown, died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large, particularly by today's standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to appropriate in order to open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four students. Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Harvard is one of the world's most prestigious universities
B. What is today a great university started out small
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the worlds universities, came from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
This oldest of American universities was founded in 1636, just sixteen years after the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth. Included in the Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more than 100 graduates of England's prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities graduates in the New World were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities that they themselves had had. Because of this support in the colony for an institution of higher learning, the General Court of Massachusetts appropriated 400 pounds for a college in October of 1636 and early the following year decided on a parcel of land for the school; this land was in an area called Newetowne, which was later renamed Cambridge after its English cousin and is the site of the present-day university.
When a young minister named John Harvard, who came from the neighboring town of Charlestown, died from tuberculosis in 1638, he willed half of his estate of 1,700 pounds to the fledgling college. In spite of the fact that only half of the bequest was actually paid, the General Court named the college after the minister in appreciation for what he had done. The amount of the bequest may not have been large, particularly by today's standard, but it was more than the General Court had found it necessary to appropriate in order to open the college.
Henry Dunster was appointed the first president of Harvard in 1640, and it should be noted that in addition to serving as president, he was also the entire faculty, with an entering freshmen class of four students. Although the staff did expand somewhat, for the first century of its existence the entire teaching staff consisted of the president and three or four tutors.
What is the main idea of the passage?
A. Harvard is one of the world's most prestigious universities
B. What is today a great university started out small
C. John Harvard was key to the development of a great university
D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts
Câu hỏi. Ý chính của đoạn văn là gì?
A. Harvard là một trong những trường đại học danh tiếng nhất thế giới
B. Một trường đại học nổi tiếng nhất hiện nay đã có một khởi đầu khiêm tốn
C. John Harvard là chìa khóa để phát triển một trường đại học lớn
D. Đại học Harvard được phát triển dưới sự bảo trợ của Tòa án Tối cao Massachusetts
Đây là câu hỏi hỏi ý chính của văn bản. Trong đoạn một dòng 1-2, ta tìm thấy thông tin: Trích Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world's universities, came from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
Tạm dịch. Đại học Harvard, ngày nay được công nhận là một trong số những trường đại học có xếp hạng cao nhất thế giới, có một sự khởi đầu rất không may và khiêm tốn.
Từ đó suy ra ta chọn được đáp án B.
A. Harvard là một trong những trường đại học danh tiếng nhất thế giới
B. Một trường đại học nổi tiếng nhất hiện nay đã có một khởi đầu khiêm tốn
C. John Harvard là chìa khóa để phát triển một trường đại học lớn
D. Đại học Harvard được phát triển dưới sự bảo trợ của Tòa án Tối cao Massachusetts
Đây là câu hỏi hỏi ý chính của văn bản. Trong đoạn một dòng 1-2, ta tìm thấy thông tin: Trích Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world's universities, came from very inauspicious and humble beginning.
Tạm dịch. Đại học Harvard, ngày nay được công nhận là một trong số những trường đại học có xếp hạng cao nhất thế giới, có một sự khởi đầu rất không may và khiêm tốn.
Từ đó suy ra ta chọn được đáp án B.
Đáp án B.