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The Knowledge Economy

The President: Let me answer the knowl edge economy questions first. And let me answer by telling you what I have tried to do in the United States. I have tried to produce a situation in American in which the doors of universities and colleges are open to every young person who has sufficient academic achievement (enough education) to get in, that there are no financial (economic) burdens of any kind. And we have not completely achieved it, but have made a great deal of progress. Now, why would I do that? Because I believe that the more advanced an economy becomes, the more important it is to have a higher and higher percent-age of people with a university education. Let me tell you how important it is in the United States. We count our people—every 10 years we do a census and we cou nt the number of the American people and we get all kinds of information on them. In the 1990 census, younger Americans who had a college degree were very likely to get good jobs and have their incomes grow. Younger Americans who didn’t go to university at all were likely to get jobs where their incomes went down and were much more likely to be unemployed.

And the more advanced China’s economy become s, the more that will be true of China—the more you will need v ery large numbers of people getting university education and technical education. So I think it is very, very important.

1. The answer was probably given by _______.

A. the US President visi ting China

B. the Chinese President visiting the United States

C. the US President at an international conference

D. the US President visiting Japan

2. The President mainly talked about_______.

A. the university education in the United States

B. the university education in China

C. the differences in university education between the United States and China

D. the important of university education in the development of economy

3. According to the President, when economy develops ______.

A. more people will get university education

B. more people with a university education are needed

C. more people will get good jobs

D. more people will have their pay raised

4. The underlined word in paragraph 2 probably means _______ in Chinese.

A. 资源调查

B. 财政预算

C.人口普查

D. 教育规划

5. In which of the following years will a census b e done in the United States?

A. 1999

B. 2000

C. 2001

D. 2002

答案：

1. A

2. D

3. B

4. C

5. B