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Last year almost forty thousand Chinese students were accepted into undergraduate programs in America. That was a fifty percent increase over the year before and four times the number of undergraduate
students just five years ago.
More Chinese students want to go to American universities and more American universities want them
to come. For Chinese students it's a chance to get a good education and for American universities it's a
chance to, well, make a lot of money. American universities received $26 billion in tuition fees from
International students last year. It's an important part of their revenue. The tuition fees for foreign students
are far higher than for domestic students. For example, the State University of New York (SUNY)
charges local students less than $5,000 a year and foreign students more than $13,000 a year.
Places like SUNY are easy to get into. They don't look too closely at your academic record and they
accept lower TOEFL and SAT*scores. But once you're in, it gets difficult. You have to take a lot of
courses, attend lectures, participate in seminars, write essays and give presentations-all in English! The
professors don't change their teaching styles and will not lower their standards to accommodate foreign
students.
Many Chinese students struggle to keep up with the workload. Some drop out and about five percent
fail and have to come back home. It's not surprising because getting a degree from an American university
is difficult even for American students. Only slightly more than fifty percent of American students graduate
in four years from the university they enrolled in. Some will take five or six years to get the credits they
need to graduate. Chinese students work much harder than their American counterparts but language is a
big stumbling block for them. If you want to succeed at an American university, your English must be very, very good. At American universities, getting in is easy; getting out is hard.
America five years ago.
B. 8,000
C. 4,000
D. 10,000
B. Getting a degree from an American university isn't difficult for local students.
C. Professors in American universities will change their teaching style to make it easier for foreign students.
D. Though Chinese students work much harder, language is an obstacle anyway.
B. The first sentence in Para. 2.
C. The last sentence in the last paragraph.
D. The third sentence in the last paragraph.
B. To warn that American universities charge foreign students too much money.
C. To warn that you won't learn anything in American universities.
D. To warn that it's not so easy to get a diploma from American universities.
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