全国各地市中考英语试卷分类解析汇编之精讲二、文化教育.docVIP

第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 25 页 （2016吉林长春）(C) Every year, in late March or early April, a boat race takes place on the Thames River, England. This boat race is an event between the two most famous and also the oldest universities in Britain – the Oxford（牛津大学）and the Cambridge（剑桥大学）. The idea for the boat race between the universities came from two friends – Charles Merivale, a student at Cambridge, and his friend Charles Wordsworth who was at Oxford. They decided to set up a boat race between the two universities. On March 12, 1829, Cambridge sent a challenge to Oxford first. When the fir