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 (??) 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.

4We 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.

第二卷（非选择题）

第三部分　写　　作（满分30分）

第一节　单词拼写（每小题1分）

根据所给汉语注释，写出所缺单词的正确形式(每空限写一词)。

⒈ You have so many nice cards. It’s hard for me to make a ______ (选择).

⒉ You look so _______ (困乏的)。 You must have stayed up last night.

⒊ The human _______ (脑) is the centre of higher nervous activity.

⒋_______ (信念) can remove mountains.

⒌ Learning English is my great _______ (乐趣).

⒍ The jacket _________ (花费) me 168 yuan.

⒎ He ________ (点头) to show that he understood what I had said.

⒏ Work hard, and you’ll ________ (一定) succeed in the future.

⒐ He _______ (赚得) a lot of money by selling minerals last year.

⒑ __________ (除……之外) English, we have seven subjects to learn.

第二节　短文改错（每小题1分）

此题要求改正所给短文中的错误。如无错误，在答题卡相应的位置上画一个勾(√)；如有错误(每行只有一个错误)，则按下列情况改正：

此行多一词：把多余的词写在答题卡相应的位置上，用斜线(\)划掉；

此行缺一词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该加的词，并附带前(后)词；

此行错一词：在答题卡相应的位置上写出该错词和改正后的词。

It’s a story happened five years ago. Li Hua, who lived in the         ⒈________

city, came to visit her uncle in our village. She and me became  ⒉________

good friend. One day, I went to her uncle’s to do homework  ⒊________

with her. But she wasn’t in. I found beautiful clock on her bed.  ⒋________

I became very curiously and took it to have a look. Since I    ⒌________

have never seen a clock before, I touched it here and there.    ⒍________

But suddenly, I found the clock wasn’t working. I felt worrying ⒎________

and wanted to run away. But I didn’t. Later on that day, I told   ⒏________

Li Hua that I had broken her clock. She smiled at me, saying ⒐________

that her little cousin had dropped it onto the ground this morning     ⒑________

and it had stopped working since then.

第三节　书面表达（10分）

班主任决定以“我的理想”为主题，下周一在班上举办一次英文演讲会。假如轮到你发言。请根据以下提示用英语写一篇发言稿。词数120左右 (开头部分已给出)。

提示：⒈ 你的理想是当一名教师，但有人感到诧异，认为教师工作辛苦，收入低；⒉ 你有自己的想法，从孩提时代你就想成为一名教师；⒊ 教师的工作对社会发展很重要、必要；⒋ 和孩子们在一起很快乐，感到年轻。

Dear my teacher and my classmates,

I’m very glad to have this chance to speak here to you.

My dream is …

第一节　语音知识 (每小题1分)

指出其划线部分读音与所给单词相同的选项。

⒈ glove          A. shock          B. prove          C. bother         D. mother

⒉ dull            A. successful    B. conclusion   C. conduct       D. value

⒊ climate       A. admire        B. surface        C. central        D. grassy

⒋ heat            A. mean          B. great           C. creativity    D. threaten

⒌ mild           A. promise      B. seaside        C. inspire        D. engine

____ my opinion, we should start out at once.

He has spent ____ money on his new house.

Reading English loudly in the morning is good ____ your English study.

Guilin is famous ____ its beautiful hills and rivers, while Kunming is famous ____ the Spring City.

____ his homework, the boy went out to play games with his friends.