[单项选择]Passage 3 Questions 11 to 15 are based on the following passage. The universities from which today’s universities are descendents were founded in the Middle Ages. They were established either by corporations of students wanting to learn, as in Italy, or by teachers wanting to teach, as in France. Corporations that had special legal or customary privileges for the purpose of carrying out the intentions of the incorporators were common in those days. The university corporations of the Middle Ages at the height of their power were not responsible to anybody, and could not be punished by any authorities. They claimed, and made good their claim, complete independence of all religious and nonreligious control. The American university was, however, at first a corporation formed by a religious group or by the state for the purposes of the group. The American university in the seventeenth century was much closer to the American university today than to t
A. training school teachers
B. influencing the government
C. providing ministers and professionals
D. supplying professionals for corporations