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The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere is wrong. This is Ningbo campus of Nottingham University in China’s Zhejiang province, half a world away from its British home. Teaching is in English, the first language of the staff. Last year the college, a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise, opened its doors to 900 local students looking for an international education without leaving home. Within five years their numbers are forecast to reach 4, 000. Say Nottingham University provost Ina Gow: "Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price"
Good question. International education is now a global industry worth $ 30 billion a year, with some 2 million students studying abroad, a figure that’s forecast to treble by 2020. In particular,
A. The U. S. stays firmly as No. 1 choice for students.
B. Britain raised by 20 percent its overseas students last year.
C. Both countries forecast a rise in the student number.
D. Both countries are losing their market share.

Text 1
The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere is wrong. This is Ningbo campus of Nottingham University in China’s Zhejiang province, half a world away from its British home. Teaching is in English, the first language of the staff. Last year the college, a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise, opened its doors to 900 local students looking for an international education without leaving home. Within five years their numbers are forecast to reach 4, 000. Say Nottingham University provost Ina Gow: "Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price"
Good question. International education is now a global industry worth $ 30 billion a year, with some 2 million students studying abroad, a figure that’s forecast to treble by 2020. In particular,
A. students will choose to study in their own country.
B. Western countries still have strong attraction for students.
C. Australia will surpass the U. S. and Britain in the market share.
D. Universities will be more active in suiting the needs of students.

Text 1
Over the last decade, demand for the most common cosmetic surgery procedures, like breast enlargement and nose jobs, has increased by more than 400 percent. According to Dr. Dui Davies, of the Plastic Surgery Partnership in Hammersmith, the majority of cosmetic surgery patients are not chasing physical perfection. Rather, they are driven to fantastic lengths to improve their appearance by a desire to look normal. "What we all long for is to look normal, and being normal is what is prescribed by the advertising media and other external pressures. They give us perception of what is physically acceptable and we feel we must look like that."
In America, the debate is no longer about whether surgery is normal; rather, it centers on what age people should be before going under the knife. New York surgeon Dr. Gerard Imberre commends "maintenance" work for people in their thirties. "The idea that waiting until one needs a heroic tran
A. being physically healthy.
B. looking usual.
C. investing for life.
D. improving appearance.

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Over the past few decades, there has been a considerable increase in the use of mathematical analysis, both for solving everyday problems and for theoretical developments of many disciplines. For example, economics, biology, geography and medicine have all seen a considerable increase in the use of quantitative techniques. Twenty years ago applied mathematics meant the application of mathematics to problems in mechanics and little else--now, applied mathematics, or as many people prefer to call it, applicable mathematics, could refer to the use of mathematics in many varied areas. The one unifying theme that these applications have is that of mathematical modeling, by which we mean the construction of a mathematical model to describe the situation under study. This process of changing a real life problem into a mathematical one is not at all easy, we hasten to add, although one of the overall aims of this book is to improve your ability as a mathematical mod
A. reads it carefully
B. understands the general concept it provides
C. C .reads Section Ⅰ and Ⅱ as well
D. tries to solve the problems provided in Sections Ⅰ and Ⅱ