More and more students are going abroad for their furtherstudy Do you want to know some famous colleges and universities?

Started in 1636, Harvar University is the oldest of all the colleges and universities in the United States.Yale University, Princeton University, Columbia University and DartmouthCollege were opened soon after Harvard University. In the early years, these schools weare much alike. Only young men went tocollege. All the students studied the same subjects,and everyonelearned Latin, Greek and Hebrew. Little was known about science then, and one kind of school could teach everything that was known about the world. When the students graduated, most of them became ministers or teachers. In 1782, Harvard University started a medical school for young men who wanted to become doctors. Later, lawyers could receive their training in Harvard University’s law school. In 1825, besides Latin and Greek, Harvard University began teaching modern languages, such as French and German. Soon it began teaching American history. As knowledge increased, Harvard University and other colleges began to teach many new subjects. Students were allowed to choose the subjects that interested them.

Today, there are many different kinds of colleges and universities. Most of thethem are made up of smaller schools that deal with special fields of learning. There’s so much to learn that one kind of school can’t offer it all.

【小题1】From the second paragraph, we can see that in the early years,   ____.

A．those colleges and universities had close similarity

B．people, young or old, might study in the colleges

C．students studied only some languages and science

D．when the students finished their school, they became lawyers or teachers

【小题2】Modern languages Harvard University taught in 1825 included ____   .

A．Latin and Greek

B．Latin, Greek, French and German

C．Greek and German

D．French and German

【小题3】As knowledge increased, colleges began to teach_____   .

A．everything that was known

B．law and something about medicine

C．many new subjects

D．the subjects that interested students

【小题4】On the whole, the passage is about _____   .

A．how to start a university

B．the world-famous colleges and universities in America

C．how American colleges and universities have changed

D．the lessons each college teaches