【正文】 enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of percent. 48. The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its petitiveness. 49. The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization. 50. Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent e from foreign countries. 51. The number of foreign students applying to . universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process. 52. The . federal funding for research has been unsteady for years. 53. Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking universitybased science and industrial application. 54. Presentday universities have bee a powerful force for global integration. 55. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries. Section C Directions: There are 2 passages in this section. Each passage is followed by some questions or unfinished statements. For each of them there are four choices marked A), B), C) and D). You should decide on the best choice and mark the corresponding letter on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre. Passage One Questions 56 to 60 are based on the following passage. Global warming is causing more than 300,000 deaths and about $125 billion in economic losses each year, according to a report by the Global Humanitarian Forum, an anization led by Kofi Annan, the former United Nations secretary general. The report, to be released Friday, analyzed data and existing studies of health, disaster, population and economic trends. It found that humaninfluenced climate change was raising the global death rates from illnesses including malnutrition (營養(yǎng)不良 ) and heatrelated health problems. But even before its release, the report drew criticism from some experts on climate and risk, who questioned its methods and conclusions. Along with the deaths, the report said that the lives of 325 million people, primarily in poor countries, were being seriously affected by climate change. It projected that the number would double by 2030. Roger Pielke Jr., a political scientist at the University of Colorado, Boulder, who studies disaster trends, said the Forum’s report was “a methodological embarrassment” because there was no way to distinguish deaths or economic losses related to humandriven global warming amid the much larger losses resulting from the growth in populations and economic development in vulnerable (易受傷害的 ) regions. Dr. Pielke said that “climate change is an important problem requiring our utmost attention.” But the report, he said, “will harm the cause for action on both climate change and disasters because it is so deeply flawed (有瑕疵的 ).” However, Soren Andreasen, a social scientist at Dalberg Global Development Partners who supervised the writing of the report, defended it, saying that it was clear that the numbers were rough estimates. He said the report was aimed at world leaders, who will meet in Copenhagen in December to negotiate a new international climate treaty. In a press release describing the report, Mr. Annan stressed the need for the negotiations to focus on increasing the flow of money from rich to poor regions to help reduce their vulnerability to climate hazards while still curbing the emissions of the heattrapping gases. More than 90% of the human and economic losses from climate change are occurring in poor countries, according to the report. 注意：此部分試題請在答題卡 2上作答。 56. What is the finding of the Global Humanitarian Forum? A) Rates of death from illnesses have risen due to global warming. B) Global temperatures affect the rate of economic development. C) Malnutrition has caused serious health problems in poor countries. D) Economic trends have to do with population and natural disasters. 57. What do we learn about the Forum’s report from the passage? A) It caused a big stir in developing countries. B) It was warmly received by environmentalists. C) It aroused a lot of interest in the scientific circles. D) It was cha