I. Complete the gaps in the following article with a word from the box. Oxbridge

For seven hundred years two univer­sities dominated British education, and today they dominate more than ever. Ox­ford and Cambridge 1 an antique way of life even in the twenty first century. Oxford and Cambridge have al­ways provided a large number of promi­nent secretaries (Whitehall civil servants), members of Parliament, and of the vice-chancellors of other universities.

The students of Oxbridge make up one of the most elite elites in the world. Less than one per cent of Britain's popula­tion goes to Oxbridge. B.A. (Oxford) or B.A. (Cambridge) is quite different from an ordinary B.A.

Oxbridge is only in 2 half the year, and the universities adjourn for four months in the summer - a relic from medieval times, when scholars had to bring in the harvest.

Only since the 1870s have women been 3 , and the women's colleges con­stitute only 12 per cent of the Oxbridge population, so that the 4 to reach them is fierce: only a small per cent of the candidates are chosen mainly on the results of the written 5 .

Oxbridge and Redbrick 6 greatly. It is absurd that four fifth of the under­graduates should be made to feel that they are inferior for life. In the civil serv­ice, politics and law there has been no visible breach in the supremacy of Ox­bridge graduates. The division is essen­tially a class one. While a larger per cent of Oxbridge 7 come from public schools, very few of Redbrick do: many public school boys would rather go straight into business, into the services of a foreign university, than go to a Red­brick university: they prefer no degree to a Redbrick degree.

In England Redbrick has been separa­te from the beginning. When Oxford and Cambridge were exclusively Anglican, the new Victorian universities were built to provide a 8 education for the poorer boys and dissenters of the provinces and to give technological training. They grew up outside the old 9 pattern. Ox­ford and Cambridge undergraduates scorned them.

session d) admitted g) examination undergraduates e) liberal h) aristocratic competition f) preserve i) differ

II. Choose the correct definition of the word.

1) Doctor —

a) a professional singer, actor, dancer

2. a person who received the highest university degree

3. a person with much knowledge

2) Student —

a) person who is studying at a college

2. person who is fond of learning

3. department or division at a university

3) School —

a) a place where people are treated for

b) a place where you can buy coffee

c) an institution for educating children

4) Degree —

a) an academic title

2. a sweet mixture of flour, eggs, butter

3. advantage, profit, help 5) Discipline—

a) a branch of knowledge

2. a division of organization

3. good behavior

6) Applicant —

a) a newly married man

b) a person who applies for a position

c) structure of wood

7) Grade —

a) a document that gives higher rank

b) shortness of statement

c) a mark received for school work at an examination

III. Correct the misspelled words:

universitys, provinses, infereor, medeival, candidats, excluzively, foreing, esen­tially.

IV. Translate into English:

спеціальна підготовка, жорстка конкуренція, гуманітарна освіта, зберегти старовинний спосіб життя, приватні школи, науковий ступінь, Середньовіччя.

V. Make a plan to retell the text “Oxbridge”.

VI. Look at the following sentences in which the grammatical errors have been underlined. Correct the errors.

1. I am the most young in my family and I very like to have older brothers and sisters.

2. When I will leave school I would like going to university for study business.

3. I didn’t know whose book was it. Then I realized it was her so I have returned it to she.

4. I haven’t got no luggages but I have much books to carry.

5. My money stole while I travelling on the bus.