Colgate University is a private liberal arts college in Hamilton, New York, USA. The school was founded in 1819 as a Baptist seminary and later became non-denominational. It is named for the Colgate family who greatly contributed to the university's endowment in the 19th century. William Colgate (January 25, 1783 – March 25, 1857) was an English manufacturer who founded what became the Colgate toothpaste company in 1806.
The student body comes from 47 states and 42 countries. In its 2012 edition, U.S. News and World Report ranked Colgate as the 21st best liberal arts college in the country. Colgate ranked 37th in the 2011 edition of "America's Best Colleges" from Forbes.com.
Colgate is located on a rural 515 acre (2.08 km²) campus in Central New York which was listed as the most beautiful in the country in the 2010 edition of the Princeton Review. Despite an undergraduate population of only 2,800, Colgate is a member of the Patriot League conference of the NCAA Division I.
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Students apply to Colgate from all over the world: most recently from 121 countries. According to Newsweek, Colgate competes most commonly with Cornell, Dartmouth, Middlebury, and Georgetown for students.
The number 13 is considered to be lucky to Colgate. It is said that Colgate was founded by thirteen men with thirteen dollars and thirteen prayers. This manifests itself in a number of ways, such as Colgate's address (13 Oak Drive); zip code, 13346, which begins with 13 and the last 3 numbers add up to 13. The number shows up in student organizations such as Konosioni, the senior honor society, which is composed of thirteen men and thirteen women. Alumni are asked to wear Colgate apparel on every Friday the 13th.
TEXT COMPREHENSION
01-Which number is considered to be lucky to Colgate?
a) eleven b) twelve c) thirteen d) fourteen e) fifteen
02-When William Colgate passed away, he was seventy______________years old.
a) one b) two c) three d) four e) five
03-Choose the correct sentence according to the text:
a) Colgate University is the best liberal arts university in the country
b) Colgate University is the best college in the world
c) William Colgate studied at the Colgate University
d) Forbes.com ranked Colgate university as America’s best college
e) Colgate University was founded in the nineteenth century
04-William Colgate was born in ________________.
a) Canada b) England c) the USA d) France e) Italy
05-Choose the correct sentence according to the text:
a) Colgate University was established in eighteen nineteen
b) Colgate toothpaste company was founded at Colgate University
c) Colgate University has 2010 students
d) Colgate University lies in New York City
e) Colgate is located on a rural 208 acre campus in Central New York
06-The last sentence of the text has ______________verbs.
a)two b) three c) four d) five e) six
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