10) __________ among Chinese people;

Advanced Learners in China's Top Universities

Andrew Chi-chih Yao, a Princeton professor who is recognized as one of the United States's top computer scientists, was approached by Tsinghua University in Beijing last year to lead an advanced computer studies program, he did not hesitate.

Why would a leading scientist at one of America's top universities leave a prestigious program for a university that is little known outside of China？ One reason is loyalty to the country where he was born, although he spent his academic career in the United States and was raised in Taiwan, China.

"Patriotism does have something to do with it, because I just cannot imagine going anywhere else, even if the conditions were equal," he said.

China wants to transform. its top universities into the world's best within a decade, and is spending billions of dollars to woo big-name scholars like Yao and to build first-class research laboratories.

China has already pulled off one of the most remarkable expansions of education in modern times, increasing the number of undergraduates and people who hold doctoral degrees five folded in 10 years.

"First-class universities increasingly reflect a nation's overall power," Wu Bangguo, China's second-ranking leader, said recently in a speech here marking the 100th anniversary of Fudan University, the country's first modern post-secondary institution.

China's model is simple: recruit top foreign-trained Chinese and overseas-born ethnic Chinese to well-equipped labs, surround them with the brightest students and give them tremendous leeway.

The new confidence about entering the world's educational elite is heard among politicians and university administrators, students and professors. Young Chinese visit the top campuses as if on a pilgrimage, posing for photographs before the arching stone gates they dream of entering as students.

"Maybe in 20 years, MIT will be studying Tsinghua's example," says Rao Zihe, director of the Institute of Biophysics at Tsinghua, University, an institution that is renowned for its sciences and is regarded by many as China's finest university. "How long it will take to catch up can't be predicted, but in some respects we are already better than the Harvard today."

In only a generation, since 1978, China has roughly 20 percent of its college-age population in higher education, up from 1.4 percent. In engineering alone, it is producing 442,000 undergraduates a year, along with 48,000 graduates with master's degrees and 8,000 doctorates.

But only Peking University and a few other top Chinese institutions have been internationally recognized as superior. Since 1998, when Jiang Zemin, then China's leader, officially started the effort to transform. Chinese universities, state financing for higher education has more than doubled, reaching $ 10. 4 billion in 2003, the last two years for which an official figure are unavailable.

Xu Tian, a leading geneticist who was trained and still teaches at Yale, runs a laboratory at Fudan University that performs innovative work on the transposition of genes. On Aug. 12, his breakthrough research was featured on the cover of the prestigious journal, Cell, a first for a Chinese scientist.

Peking University drew on the talents of Tian Gang, a leading mathematician from MIT, in setting up an international research center for advanced mathematics, among other high-level research centers.

Officials at Peking University estimate that as much as 40 percent of its faculty is trained overseas, most often in the United States.

The president of Yale University, Richard Levin, was interviewed in Shanghai, where he was the featured guest in late September. "China has 20 percent of the world's population, and it is safe to say it has more than 20 pe

A．Y

B．N

C．NG

A、different thinking patterns and culture

B、rise of China as an influential economic force

C、Chinese interference

D、word-for-word translation from online dictionary

Among the Chinese, tea ______ coffee.

A．prefers

B．is preferred.

C．is preferred to

D．preferred

A、The seal script

B、The official script

C、The cursive script

D、The regular script

Milk has become a popular drink for modem Chinese, not only is its nutritional(营养的) value appreciated, it seems even to have taken the role making the whole nation strong. Milk industry has only about 180 years of history among the Hah people. For a long time, milk was considered a luxury(奢侈的) drink by common people. A widespread saying in the country was that Japan used a cup of milk to strengthen the constitution(体格) of its people. That sounds reasonable because the rich "Ca" in milk definitely benefits the constitution.

The average annual consumption per capita in Japan has risen from less than 10 kilograms immediately after World War II to 68 kilograms today. The average height of Japanese has increased by 11 centimeters during this period. The Chinese Government also hopes to improve the constitution of local people, and since milk is the most obvious nutritious food, it has naturally been picked up. But due to tradition, Chinese people are not in the habit of drinking milk regularly. The annual output of milk in the country is about 10 million tons, compared with an output of alcohol reaching 8 million tons. The annual milk consumption per capita is about 7 kilograms in China while the world's average is about 100 kilograms. The government has noticed the huge gap and plans to raise consumption to 10 kilograms per capita by 2005 and 16 kilograms by 2010. The government has also started plans for "school milk" since the beginning of this century.

Chinese government encourage people to drink milk and hope that ______.

A．the whole nation will become stronger

B．the milk industry will have a faster development

C．milk will no longer be considered a luxury drink

D．its nutritional value will be more appreciated