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[00:04.86]Module 2 FAMOUS UNIVERSITIES
[00:09.21]UNIT 1 Peking University is the most famous
[00:13.74]university in China.
[00:16.68]1 Listen and read.Then say.
[00:23.12]Here we are, in front of Peking University,
[00:27.65]the most famous university in China.
[00:31.86]The campus is also known
[00:34.23]as 'Yan Yuan', the Garden of Yan.
[00:38.75]It's close to the Yuanming Garden
[00:41.68]and the Summer Palace.
[00:44.46]The university opened in 1898
[00:48.32]during the Qing Dynasty
[00:50.72]and it was the most important educational
[00:54.01]institution in the whole of China then.
[00:58.35]At that time,
[00:59.85]it was called the Metropolitan University.
[01:04.64]It was later renamed Peking University in 1912.
[01:10.63]By 1919, the university had developed
[01:15.23]into the country's largest institution with
[01:18.79]14 departments and more than 2,000 students.
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