Exercise 14

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Now let me give you some idea of what you would see if you were to walk around Cambridge. Let us imagine that I am seeing ... sights for ... first time. It is ... quiet market town and ... shopping centre for quite ... large area, but I notice more bookshops than one normally sees in ... country towns, and more tailors' shops displaying in their windows ... black gowns that... students must wear, ... long gowns that hang down behind to ... feet for ... graduates and shorter ones for ... undergraduates. In ... centre of ... town is ...market place. Everywhere there are ... teashops, some modern and many in ...old buildings, reached by ... climbing narrow stairs. There is ... great deal of... bicycle traffic, mainly ... undergraduates who race along without thought of ... safety, with ... long scarves (in ... various colours to denote their college) wound round their necks. Crossing ... marketplace with its Town Hall and cinemas I come to ... tall grey church with ... fine tower standing up proudly. Continuing, I find my way to ... river which flows behind ... college buildings. ... colleges join one another along ... curve of ... river. ... colleges are built on ... plan common to all. There is ...chapel, ... library and ... large dining- hall. There are nineteen colleges, including two for ... women students which were built near ... end of... last century. (... women students do not have ... very active part in...university life at Cambridge, by ...way, but they work harder than ... men and one seldom sees them outside of ... classrooms.) It is difficult to walk around ... quiet courts of ... colleges without feeling ... sense of ... peace and scholarship.