背诵为王第三册第07课

Universities
Nearly half of all Americans go on to college when they graduate from high school. Some colleges are small with only a few hundreds students, but some of big states universities are huge with upto 60,000 students. There are more than 2,600 universities in the USA and nearly all colleges have both men and women students.
You can study many interesting subjects at college in short or long courses. But if you want to get a degree you have to study for least four years. Classes start in September and go on to early June with a break in the middle.
In Britain you can get a degress at university or in some of them many degrees colleage of further education. There are 42 universities in Britain. There are also many colleges in Britain that teacher English as a language. Some have a short courses of a few weeks or a month and some have one or two years courses. University classes start in September and go on untill mid June with two breaks. One at Christmas and one at Easter. Most degrees take three years but some take four.