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进阶作业5 阅读七选五
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Passage 1
(2020·山东曲阜高三一模)
AlAzhar University
Going to a university is an important part of a person's life. Today, many people go to a university to study and train for a future job in subjects like law, medicine, or education. __1__ An important one started in Egypt over one thousand years ago.
The world's oldest surviving university, AlAzhar, is in Cairo, Egypt. It was first built as a mosque (清真寺) in A.D.972. A few years later, learners and teachers began meeting in the mosque. They read and talked about the subjects of religion (宗教) and law. __2__ Leaders in the city of Cairo decided to create a school for higher learning and soon after that, AlAzhar University was founded.
__3__ For these teachers at AlAzhar, they needed to think about what courses to teach and how to teach them. The earliest courses were in law and religion. In a course, students read and studied with the teacher, but there was also free discussion. Often, students and teachers had interesting discussions, and there was no “correct” answer. In the years that followed, the new university interested scholars(学者) from around the world. __4__ At AlAzhar, people studied the past, but it was also a place for sharing new ideas.
Over a thousand years later, AlAzhar is still an important university in the world. __5__ Today, many of the world's most important universities such as Oxford and Harvard still follow the same traditions as they do at AlAzhar.
A.A university was a new idea at that time.
B.There are many reasons to study in Egypt.
C.They came here to teach and do research.
D.Around the year 988, a new decision was made.
E.However, the university is not a modern invention.
F.The cost of university education is increasing year by year.
G.Its library contains many of the world's oldest and most valuable books.
答案与解析
语篇解读 本文是一篇记叙文。文章主要介绍了世界上最古老的大学之一——爱资哈尔大学。
1.E 根据空前的Today和空后的“An important one...one
thousand years ago.”可知,该空与上文是转折关系,又引出下文,E项符合此处语境,故选E。
2.D 根据空前的“