Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.A) left E) without I) permitted M) teacher B) graduates F) men J) admission N) president C) popularity G) died K) returned O) with D) honourary H) honourable L) undergraduate Harvard was named after its first financial supporter, John Harvard. He was a Christian clergyman from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He left his library and half of everything else he owned to the school when he ________ 26 ________ in 1638.Harvard admitted only ________ 27 ________ for most of its history. It opened an allied college for women called the Harvard Annex in 1879. This was later established as Radcliffe College. That women were ________ 28 ________ to attend Harvard classes began in the 1940s. But it was 1963 before women were officially enrolled in Harvard University and permitted to earn Harvard degrees.Today, Harvard has about 18,000 students in ________ 29 ________ and graduate programmes. It is considered one of the best universities in the country, the richest, and the most difficult to gain ________ 30 ________. Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard. She is the first female ________ 31 ________ in the university's history.
Directions: In this section, there is a passage with ten blanks. You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank before the passage. Read the passage through carefully before making your choices. Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter. Please write down the corresponding letter for each item in the blanks. You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.
A) left
E) without
I) permitted
M) teacher
B) graduates
F) men
J) admission
N) president
C) popularity
G) died
K) returned
O) with
D) honourary
H) honourable
L) undergraduate
Harvard was named after its first financial supporter, John Harvard. He was a Christian clergyman from the Massachusetts Bay Colony. He left his library and half of everything else he owned to the school when he ________ 26 ________ in 1638.
Harvard admitted only ________ 27 ________ for most of its history. It opened an allied college for women called the Harvard Annex in 1879. This was later established as Radcliffe College. That women were ________ 28 ________ to attend Harvard classes began in the 1940s. But it was 1963 before women were officially enrolled in Harvard University and permitted to earn Harvard degrees.
Today, Harvard has about 18,000 students in ________ 29 ________ and graduate programmes. It is considered one of the best universities in the country, the richest, and the most difficult to gain ________ 30 ________. Drew Gilpin Faust is the 28th president of Harvard. She is the first female ________ 31 ________ in the university's history.