The pronoun ‘they’ in the second paragraph refers to___________

Question. The pronoun “they” in paragraph 2 refers to which of the following:

A. University of Oxford and University of Cambridge

B. Graduates

C. son of Puritans

D. educational opportunities

This is a question of inference. We find the information in paragraph 2, lines 2-4:

Included in the Puritan emigrants to the Massachusetts colony during this period were more than 100 graduates of England’s prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these universities graduates in the New Word were determined that their sons would have the same educational opportunities that they themselves had had.

The subject of the sentence is the phrase university graduates, so the pronoun they is to replace this subject. So we can choose answer B.

Translated. Accompanying the Puritans to Massachusetts during this period were more than 100 bachelors from the prestigious Oxford and Cambridge universities, and these graduates when they arrived in the New World were determined that their sons should have the same opportunity. educational society as they once were.