文档介绍：Unit 1
Task 1
【答案】
A. unusual, whatever, escape, traditions, present, grey, moulded, shape, here
B.
A Chronicle of Cambridge’s Early Years
Years
Events
1209
Several hundred students and scholars arrived in Cambridge from Oxford.
1284
Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, was founded.
1440
King Henry Ⅵ founded King’s College.
C.
1) Students were forbidden to play games, to sing (except sacred music), to hunt or fish or even to dance.
2) When people went anywhere on a visit, the pretty English girls all kissed them.
3) Erasmus, Bacon, Milton, Cromwell, and Newton (or Wordsworth, Byron, Tennyson, etc.)
【原文】
My coming to Cambridge has been an unusual experience. From whatever country one comes as a student one cannot escape the influence of the Cambridge traditions---and they go back so far! Here, perhaps, more than anywhere else, I have felt at one and the same time the past, the present and even the future. It’s easy to see in the old grey stone buildings how the past moulded the present and how the present is giving shape to the future. So let me tell you a little of what this university town looks like and how it came to be here at all.
The story of the University began, so far as I know, in 1209 when several hundred students and scholars arrived in the little town of Cambridge after having walked 60 miles from Oxford.
Of course there were no colleges in those early days and student life was very different from what it is now. Students were of all ages and came from anywhere and everywhere. They were armed; some even banded together to rob the people of the countryside. Gradually the idea of the college developed, and in 1284, Peterhouse, the oldest college in Cambridge, was founded.
Life in college was strict; students were forbidden to play games, to sing (except sacred music), to hunt or fish or even to dance. Books were very scarce and all the lessons were in the Latin language which students were supposed