The main idea of this passage is that__________

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your anwser sheet to indicate the correct answer to each of the following questions.

Harvard University, today recognized as part of the top echelon of the world’s 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 university 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 Newe Towne, 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.

The main idea of this passage is that__________.

• 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 universities
• D. Harvard University developed under the auspices of the General Court of Massachusetts

• Câu 2: Mã câu hỏi: 17040

  The passage indicates that Harvard is ________.

  • A. one of the oldest universities in the world
  • B. the oldest university in the world
  • C. one of the oldest universities in America
  • D. the oldest university in America

• Câu 3: Mã câu hỏi: 17041

  It can be inferred from the passage that the Puritans who traveled to the Massachusetts colony were ________ .

  • A. rather well educated
  • B. rather rich
  • C. rather supportive of the English government
  • D. rather undemocratic

• Câu 4: Mã câu hỏi: 17042

  The pronoun “they” in the second paragraph refers to ________ .

  • A. Oxford and Cambridge universities
  • B. university graduates
  • C. sons
  • D. educational opportunities

• Câu 5: Mã câu hỏi: 17043

  The word “pounds” in the second paragraph are probably ________ .

  • A. types of books
  • B. college students
  • C. units of money
  • D. school campuses

• Câu 6: Mã câu hỏi: 17044

  The “English cousin” in the second paragraph refers to a ________ .

  • A. city
  • B. relative
  • C. person
  • D. court

• Câu 7: Mã câu hỏi: 17045

  Which of the following is NOT mentioned about John Harvard?

  • A. What he died of
  • B. Where he came from
  • C. Where he was buried
  • D. How much he bequeathed to Harvard

• Câu 8: Mã câu hỏi: 17046

  The word “fledgling” in the third paragraph could be best replaced by which of the following?

  • A. newborn
  • B. flying
  • C. winged
  • D. established

• Câu 9: Mã câu hỏi: 17048

  The passage implies that  ________ .

  • A. Henry Dunster was an ineffective president
  • B. someone else really served as president of Harvard before Henry Dunster
  • C. Henry Dunster spent much of his time as president managing the Harvard faculty
  • D. The position of president of Harvard was not merely an administrative position in the early years

• Câu 10: Mã câu hỏi: 17049

  The word “somewhat” in the last paragraph could best be replaced by ________ .

  • A. back and forth
  • B. to and pro
  • C. side by side
  • D. more or less