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 (签证) 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.

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

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.

Which subject is the most attractive to foreign students in the USA?

       A. Business and management.       B. History.

       C. Engineering.    D. Language.

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

In which section of a newspaper could you most probably read this passage?

       A. Culture.     B. Science.     C. Education.  D. Business.

第二节：书面表达（满分25分）

假如你是李华，日前看到某英文报社向全球中学生征集有关绿色校园建设的稿件，请你根据以下内容要点和要求写一篇英文短文。

       要点：

1．重要性；

2．绿色校园不仅指绿色环境……；

3．具体措施；

要求：

1．字数120左右；

2．短文中不得透露本人及所在学校的真实信息；

3．书写务必清晰、工整。

You have worked hard all week so you ____ a good rest．

       A．reserve    B．obtain         C．owe           D．deserve

The purse found on the playground matches the ____ by Mary, so it must be hers．

       A．direction B．description       C．expression       D．instruction

Is this the girl______ whom I can turn for help? Is she good at this subject?

A. to          B. with       C. in       D. at

Japan is ____ the east of China, while India is ____ the west of China.

       A. to; on B. on; to  C. in; to  D. to; in

阅读下面短文，根据上下文填入适当的词语，或使用括号中的词语的适当形式填空，并将答案填写在答案标号为31—40的相应位置。

One evening, I came across one of my son’s papers with a failing grade. I almost started to yell his name   31   I suddenly remembered he was in bed asleep. It was his   32  (nine) year of school and his academic career seemed to be in ruins, so I was angry. But I put the paper aside and turned to the   33   one, at the top of which were written “My dad”. It was a poem about me,   34   included the time I had to leave work to take him to the hospital because he   35  (break) his finger. So careless was I   36   I had forgotten all about that.

He talked about how I wrestled with him in the evenings and   37   good many other things. That paper was suddenly not nearly as important as it had been a few minutes   38  . I don’t know if he planted the poem next to the failing grade to   39  (soft) the blow, but it worked. Instead of a severe lecture, I talked to him about the poem as well as the failed homework, and it began to make sense to me that I could include praise along   40   constructive criticism.

Look at the timetable. Hurry up! Flight 4026 ______ off at 18:20.

A. takes        B. took         C. will be take         D. has taken

She ____ his number in the phone book to make sure hat she had got it right.

  A. looked up    B. looked for    C. picked out     D. picked up

There are five chairs ___ ,but I am at a loss which to buy .

to be chosen  B. to choose from  C. to choose  D. to be chosen from