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CEFR READING PART PRACTICE – TRUE OR FALSE
Read the text and find out whether the statements A-F is True or False.
Put
A
if the statement is True or put
B
if the statement is False.
TASK 11
A) Students generally are required to attend lectures at Oxford.
B) At some colleges students must change clothes to dinner.
C) In a short stroll one can pass the house where Christopher Wren discovered
his comet.
D) Tolkien wrote notes for the Hobbit trilogy in one of Oxford’s pubs.
E) Mathematician Charles Lutwidge Dodgson wrote a children’s book called
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland
in Oxford.
F) Margaret Thatcher and John Kennedy studied at Oxford.
For 800 years the University of Oxford has been polishing minds and confusing
outsiders in roughly equal measure. It is a place where students generally aren’t
required to attend lectures, don’t receive grades, seldom study anything outside their chosen
subject, and take just three sets of exams during the course of their college careers — “one to
get in and two to get out,” as one alumnus told me. “There are more
rules and traditions than
you can imagine,” Owen Sheers, a cheerful but slightly shell-shocked-looking first-year
student, told me toward the end of his first week in New College. “At my college you dress
one way if you go to the first sitting of dinner, another way if you go to the second. It’s very
confusing.” A confusion of tradition is perhaps an inevitable consequence of a place so
deeply steeped in history. In a short stroll you can pass the house where Edmund Hailey
discovered his comet; the site of Britain’s
oldest public museum, the Ashmolean; the hall
where architect Christopher
Wren drew his first plans; the pub where J.R.R. Tolkien wrote
notes for the Hobbit trilogy (it stands opposite the pub where Thomas
Hardy made similar
preparations for
Jude the Obscure
); the track where Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four-
minute mile; the meadow where a promising young mathematician
named Charles Lutwidge
Dodgson refined
The Formulae of Plane Trigonometry, An Elementary Treatise on
Determinants
and — oh yes — a children’s trifle called
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland.
Walk down the broad and curving High Street and you follow in the footsteps
of Samuel
Johnson, Adam Smith, Edward Gibbon, Jonathan Swift, Roger Bacon, Oscar Wilde, Graham
Greene, T. S. Eliot, C. S. Lewis, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Indira Gandhi,
Margaret Thatcher,
and Bill Clinton, to name just a few who have worked and studied here.
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