大學英語四級段落信息匹配題技巧(編輯修改稿)

　

【文章內容簡介】 rength, but support for research funding has been unsteady. The budget of the National Institutes of Health doubled between 1998 and 2003, but has risen more slowly than inflation since then. Support for the physical sciences and engineering barely kept pace with inflation during that same period. The attempt to make up lost ground is wele, but the nation would be better served by steady, predictable increases in science funding at the rate of longterm GDP growth, which is on the order of inflation plus 3 percent per year. H) American politicians have great difficulty recognizing that admitting more foreign students can greatly promote the national interest by increasing international understanding. Adjusted for inflation, public funding for international exchanges and foreignlanguage study is well below the levels of 40 years ago. In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to . universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the . Objections from American university and business leaders led to improvements in the process and a reversal of the decline, but the United States is still seen by many as unweling to international students. I) Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s wellbeing through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American petitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that weling foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States and—like immigrants throughout history—strengthen the nation。 and second, foreign students who study in the United States bee ambassadors for many of its most cherished (珍視) values when they return home. Or at least they understand them better. In America as elsewhere, few instruments of foreign policy are as effective in promoting peace and stability as weling international university students. 1. American universities prepare their undergraduates for global careers by giving them chances for international study or internship. 2. Since the mid1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of percent. 3. The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its petitiveness. 4. The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization. 5. Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent e from foreign countries. 6. The number of foreign students applying to . universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process. 7. The . federal funding for research has been unsteady for years. 8. Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking universitybased science and industrial application. 9. Presentday universities have bee a powerful force for global integration. 10. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries. Passage Two Into the unknownA) Until the early 1900s nobody thought much about the whole populations getting older. UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable. B) For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly by Americans, surrounded by the alarm. They had titles like Young vs. Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: healthcare systems were heading for the rocks, p