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19. The main concern of the passage is …

A) The comparison of different types university.

B) The development of the European universities from the Middle Ages to the present.

C) To describe the aims and the early history of universities.

D) To explain how and why the medieval university came into being.


20. One of the primary goals of a university is to … .

A) encourage establishment of other universities

B) undertake the furthering of knowledge teaching and research in a variety of fields

C) provide students with professional training

D) supervise the research undertaken by other institutions in society

21. Although the origins of universities can be traced to antiquity, the history of the modern university …

A) is closely linked to the history of Oxford and Cambridge universities.

B) begins with the use, in Renaissance, of the word “universities”.

C) centres around the migration of scholars in Europe.

D) really dates from the Middle Ages.