A new report says the number of foreign students at
colleges and universities in the United States increased by three percent last
year. This has been the first obvious increase since 2001.
American schools last fall had 583,000 foreign
students. The record is 586,000. That was set in 2002 after many years of
gains. But after that the numbers fell. The terrorist attacks on September
11th, 2001 led to more visa (簽證) requirements. Now
stronger efforts are being made to get more foreign students to study in the
United States.
China remained in second place in front of South Korea
but behind India, which sent almost 84,000 students last fall. The number of
Japanese fell sharply by nine percent, although it remained in fourth place.
There were three percent drops from Indonesia and
Kenya, the only African country in the top twenty last year. But there were
obvious increases from Saudi Arabia, Nepal and Vietnam. The number of Saudi
students more than doubled, rising to nearly eight thousand.
For a sixth year, the University of Southern
California in Los Angeles had the most foreign students. Columbia University in
New York was second. Other schools in the top five were New York University,
the University of Illinois and Purdue University.
Unlike American students in other countries, who often
choose history and language study, the leading area of study in the USA was
business and management. Second was engineering.
The new report also says more than 220,000 Americans
studied in other countries. That was during the 2005-2006 school year. It was a
record number, and an increase of eight and a half percent from the year
before. But only five percent of them stayed for a full year.
1.After 2002, the number of foreign students in the
USA fell mainly because ____ .
A．Americans
were worried that foreign students might attack them
B．few American
universities welcomed students from abroad
C．their own
countries could offer them a better education
D．it was harder
for foreign students to get permission to study in the USA
2.Which of the following Asian countries has the
largest number of students studying in the USA?
A．China. B．Japan. C．South Korea. D．India.
3.Which subject is the most attractive to foreign
students in the USA?
A．Business and
management. B．History.
C．Engineering. D．Language.
4.We can learn from the passage that ____ .
A．Kenya is the
only African country that has students in the USA
B．now foreign
students are encouraged to study in the USA
C．the number of
students studying in America always increases
D．the number of
foreign students in the USA will keep increasing in the future
5.In which section of a newspaper could you most
probably read this passage?
A．Culture. B．Science. C．Education. D．Business.
