About 40 percent of the top students in college entrance examinations have chosen overseas universities for their postgraduate studies, according to a survey.
Most of them have stayed overseas after finishing their intended courses, showed a survey that tracked 130 top performers in college entrance exams from 1977 to 1998.
The survey, released on the China Alumni Association website, found it worrying that many of the top students would not despite the country’s rapid development in the past few decades.
The government should find better ways to hold back talented students, said Cai Yanhou, a professor with Central South University in Changsha, capital of Hunan Province.
UNESCO figures show Chinese students prise 14 percent of international students, the highest in the world. Their favorite destinations for higher studies are the US, Britain and Japan. Some experts said handsome scholarships, better job prospects and more opportunities to pursue further studies are the main attractions of foreign universities.
But Cai, who also led the survey team, said top in exams does not necessarily mean top in career because the study found none of the top students at college entrance exams had bee a top Chinese expert or academic. Some of them are just more adaptable to exam-oriented education than their peers, experts said.
The media fill pages and time slots with their success stories to gain wider readership and viewership. High schools promote their former students proudly to attract new ones, and universities want to show their superior status by recruiting them, they said.
Wang hoped future reforms would do away with the score-oriented method so that students can be judged from all aspects.
1. What is the best title of the passage? (Please answer within 10 words)
2. Which sentence in the passage can be replaced by the following one?
The top students’ “success” stories are widely announced by the media to attract the readers’ and the viewers’ interest.
3. Please fill in the blank in the second paragraph with proper words or phrases to plete the sentence. (Please answer within 10 words)
4. If you are one of the top students in college entrance examinations, will you choose to study abroad? Why or why not?(Please answer within 30 words)
5. Translate the underlined sentence into Chinese1. 40% top Chinese students choose to study abroad.
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(答案→)1. 40% top Chinese students choose to study abroad.
解析：
1. 文章开头的句子是主题句：40% top Chinese students choose to study abroad.
2.这句话的意思：媒体宣传尖子生的故事吸引读者和观众： The media fill pages and time slots with their success stories to gain widerreadership and viewership.
3. 从后面的句子：despite the country’s rapid development in the past few decades.可知这些学生不愿意在国内学习深造： stay in China for higher studies
4学生自由发挥。
5.注意词组：do away with摈除，和so that句型：be judged from all aspects.得到全方位的评价