MY CLOSE FRIEND, THAT HAS JUST GOT SACOMBANK'S SCHOLARSHIP, IS AN E...

8. My close friend, that has just got Sacombank's scholarship, is an excellent student.

A B C D

II. READING (1.25pt) Read the passage carefully and choose the best answer.

"Where is the university?" is a question 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 an 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 fourteenth and fifteenth centuries more and more land was used for college

buildings. The town grew much faster in the nineteenth century after the opening of the

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