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Council on Education , 79% of the U.S. population agrees that students ought to study abroad, in contrast to the fact that only 1% go.
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Many students who go abroad have the goal of learning a language. There is no
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UNIT ONE
LESSON TWO
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WARMING UP
PART ONE WARMING UP
Directions: In this part, you are going to see 4 logos of world famous news agencies. Can you guess WHICH COUNTRY they are from?
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READING COMPREHENSION
PART THREE READING COMPREHENSION An American in Beijing
By Lauren Konopacz
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An American in Beijing
根据可获取的最新资料，2005-2006学年，有223，534名
In the 2005-2006 academic year, the most recent period for which data are available, 223,534 U.S. students studied abroad. That number equals only 1% of enrolled U.S. students. Of that 1%, only 9.3% chose to study abroad in Asia. That means that just 20,788 U.S. students went abroad to the Asian region.
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In other words, the number of U.S. students who spent time in Asia during that
academic year couldn’t evensell out a Red Sox game.1Fenway Park—one of the
better way to improve language skills than by being immersed in a language other than
Deutsche Presse Agentur Reuters
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德新社
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Agenzia Nazionale Stampa Associata
(ITALY) 安莎社
RIA Novosti (RUSSIA) 俄新社
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smallest ballparks in the United States—has a capacity of 36,108. Taking that point further,
only about 6,000 students chose to study in China.
They could not even sell out a Portland Sea Dogs2 game—the Red Sox’ minor league
team. Of all my friends, only the ones who I know through Chinese classes went to China,
and the eight of us couldn’t even fill a dugout.
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■ So why did they go? There are a number of reasons to study abroad. In fact, according to the American