Task 2. Complete the text with the right words. 1. clothes; 2. course; 3. residence; 4. wear; 5. academic; 6. full; 7. old; 8. allowed; 9. present; 10. had; 11. days; 12. live. In the ... times students' life was ... of restrictions. Students of Cambridge were not ... to play games, sing, hunt, fish or even to dance, they ... to … special dark ... and the "squares", the ... caps they still wear in our ... . During the ... all students have to ... in the college; there are at ... over 9,000 students in ... .
Task 2. Complete the text with the right words. 1. clothes; 2. course; 3. residence; 4. wear; 5. academic; 6. full; 7. old; 8. allowed; 9. present; 10. had; 11. days; 12. live. In the ... times students' life was ... of restrictions. Students of Cambridge were not ... to play games, sing, hunt, fish or even to dance, they ... to … special dark ... and the "squares", the ... caps they still wear in our ... . During the ... all students have to ... in the college; there are at ... over 9,000 students in ... .
1 The Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama hadn't seen penguins before he travelled to South Africa in 1497. X
2 After he had made a pilgrimage to the city of Mecca in 1325, Ibn Battuta decided to become an explorer. ✓
3 Many explorers had tried to climb Mount Everest before Tenzing Norgay and Edmund Hillary reached the peak in 1953. ✓
4 People in Europe hadn't eaten potatoes until Christopher Columbus brought some from America. X
5 More than 400 years after Magellan had sailed around the world, the US submarine Triton made a similar journey underwater. ✓