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1、Unit1StartingoutListeninginPassage1InterviewerCanyoutellmesomethingabouttheIvyLeague?You'reaprofessoratHarvard,isthatright?ProfessorThat'sright,yes.InterviewerTellmehowmanyuniversitiesarethere?Howmanyinstitutions?ProfessorIntotalthereareeightinstitutions:There'sHarvard,Yale,Brown,Col
2、umbia,Cornell,Dartmouth,Princeton,andtheUniversityofPennsylvania.InterviewerAh,OK.Andwhat'sthesporting...Ibelievethere'ssomelinkwithsports.ProfessorTherecertainlyis,yes.OriginallytheIvyLeaguereferredtothesportsteamsfromtheuniversitieswhichcompetedagainsteachother,especiallyinfootball
3、,basketballandicehockey.Nowsometimestheseuniversities,institutions,chosetheirstudentsonthebasisoftheirskillsattheseparticularsports.Butinthelast50years,IvyLeagueschoolshaveacceptedawiderrangeofstudentsbecauseitwasn'tpossibletobebothworld-famousforresearchandalsotopclassinsport.Interv
4、iewerAndwhatabouttheiracademicimportance?Igatherthey'reacademicallyvery,veryimportant,they'reverywell-known.ProfessorAbsolutelyatthetop.They'renearoratthetopoftheUSAcollegesanduniversityrankings.Andthey'realmostalwaysinthetoponepercentoftheworld'sacademicinstitutionsforfinancialresou
5、rces.InterviewerAndwhatdoesitmeansociallytogotoanIvyLeagueuniversity?ProfessorCertainlyifyou'vebeentooneoftheseinstitutions,youarepresumedorassumedtobeatthetopendofthescale.TheIvyLeagueinstitutionshaveareputationforsocialelitism,manyofthestudentsarerich,intellectual,whiteAnglo-Saxon,
6、protestants.Notallofthemofcourse,butquitealotofthem.InterviewerAnddoyouknow...why'sitcalledtheIvyLeague,what'stheoriginofthename?ProfessorThereareanumberofstories,derivations,butpossiblyit'sbasedonfouruniversities,andIV,thelettersIV,that'stheRomannumeralforfour.Anothermorelikelystory
7、isthativyplants,whicharesymbolicoftheageoftheuniversities,youknow,wouldbegrownatthewallsoftheseuniversities,theseinstitutions,theycoverthewallsofthebuildings.Thetermwascreatedbyasportsjournalist,Ithinkinthe1930s.InterviewerRight,OK.Andwhichistheoldestuniversity?ProfessorTheoldestgoes
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