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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 them a ________ answer, for there is no wall to be found ________ the university. You can find classroom buildings, ________, museums and offices of the university all over the city. And most of its members are the students and ________ of the thirty-one colleges (学院).

Cambridge had been already a(n) ________ town long before the first students and teachers arrived 800 years ago. It grew u by the river Granta, and the river was once ________ the Cam. A ________ was built over the river as early as 875, so the town got its name “Cambridge”.

In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, more and more land was used for college buildings. The town grew much ________ in the nineteenth century after the opening of the railway in 1845. Cambridge became a ________ in 1951 and now it has a population of over 100,000. Many young students in other countries ________ to study in Cambridge.