. AFTER WHICH YEAR DID THE TOWN REALLY BEGIN DEVELOPING

40). After which year did the town really begin developing?

A. After 800 B. After 875 C. After 1845 D. After 1945

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I . Read the following passage and then choose the best answer to the questions by circling the letter A, B, C, or D.

" Where is the university?" is a question that many visitors to Cambridge ask, but no one can give them a clear answer, for there is

no wall to be found around the university. The university is the city. You can find the classroom buildings, libraries, museums and

offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and teachers or professors of the thirty-one

colleges.

Cambridge was already developing town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the

river Granta, as the Cam was once called. A bridge was built over the river as early as 875.

In the fourteen and fifteen centuries more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much faster in the

nineteen century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a city in 1951 and now it has the population of over