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“Where is the university?” This is a question that many visitors to Cambridge(剑桥) ask. But no one can give 1 a clear answer, for there is no wall to be found 2 the university. The university is the city. You can find classroom buildings, 3 , museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and 4 of the thirty-one colleges.
Cambridge was already a developing(发展中的) town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew up by the river Granta, and the river was once 5 Cam. A 6 was built over the river as early as 875. So the town got its name “Cambridge”.
In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries(世纪) more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much 7 in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a 8 in 1951 and now it has a population(人口) of over 100,000. Many young students in other countries 9 to study at Cambridge. 10 of people from all over the world come to visit the university town. It has become a famous place all around the world.
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George Stephenson was born in 1781 in a poor family. He had to start work when he was only eight. When George was fourteen, he became his father’s helper. He spent a lot of time learning about engines. On holidays, he often took engines into pieces and studied each piece carefully. Soon he became a very good worker though he could not read or write.
He began to learn the English letters when he was seventeen years old. Every day after he did twelve hours of hard work, he walked a long way to have lessons from a young teacher.
On his eighteenth birthday, he wrote his own name for the first time in his life. George invented many things in his life. The train was the greatest one among them. Today when we watch or take trains from one place to another, we will think of this great man—George Stephenson.
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