University of Cambridge - one of the oldest universities in the world and one of the largest in the UK. Academic achievements Cambridge is known all over the world and are evidence of the intellectual potential of its students and faculty. The University was founded in 1209, and the first College with its own independent system - in 1284. Currently the University consists of 28 colleges, joint training and 3 women's College.The University has an internationally recognized reputation for outstanding academic achievements and high level of scientific research in various fields of knowledge, the brilliant evidence of which is the awarding of its scientists more than 80 Nobel prizes. The University has its own Constitution and is self-education with its own legislative body (Regent House) , 3 which includes thousands of teachers and administrative staff. Administrative authority of Cambridge is the Council and the General Board of the faculties co-ordinates the educational policy of the University that comprises more than 100 departments, faculties and schools. Today there are 18,000 students, about 17% of which were foreigners. More than half of students prefer the Humanities.
Complete with past simple or past continuous
1. What was she wearing (wear) when you saw (see) her? Her favourite top, I
think.
2. Theygot (get) up early that morning so theywent (go) for a swim.
3. Wefound (find) the keys wewere looking (look) for yesterday.
4. The carcrashed (crash) against the wall and a lot of peoplecame (come) round.
5Was itraining.. (rain) when you left for school? Yes, it
was raining, quite heavily.
6. Itwas (be) a quiet morning: the birdswere singing (sing) in the trees and the cows
were eating(eat). Wewere walking (walk) happily when a terrible stormstarted (start) 100 ms
away from us. The windblew (blow)a big tree down and a black cloudappeared
(appear) in the sky.
7. Wecould (can) hear you because we
were singing (sing) in the music classroom.
8. The policedoscovered (discover) that a criminal gang...was buying (buy) luxury cars with
stolen credit cards andorganized (organize) an incredible operation to stop them.