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At Yale University, enrollment in basic Chinese in 2005 grew rapidly, and for the first time
professors can remember, large numbers of freshmen were arriving with enough knowledge of
the Chinese language to start in second- or third-year Chinese language class, rather than basic
Chinese.
The American interest in China is not just at the university level. In the 2006 school year, high-school
students will be offered an Advanced Placement test, which is one of the national exams American
students take for university admission, in Chinese. This is the first time Chinese is offered in the
Advanced Placement test, which is usually limited to the most important subjects that high school
students take.
What is surprising is that earlier last year, an organization that tracks university students surveyed
high schools throughout America, asking if they planned to offer the language courses that prepare
students for the language Advanced Placement test. They expected that only a hundred high schools,
mostly in California, New York, and a few other places with large immigrant populations, would show
interest in each of the new language programs. Although that was true for the courses in Italian, Russian
and Japanese, it was not true for the Chinese language course. There were thousands of American
high schools that indicated that they planned to build their Chinese programs to levels where students
could take the Advanced Placement exam for Chinese language. The demand for courses in Chinese is
rising so rapidly that it is rapidly overtaking all other foreign languages except Spanish.
1. According to the passage many freshmen at Yale University today .
A. know enough basic Chinese
B. needn't learn Chinese any more
C. take courses in the Chinese language
D. go to university to study Chinese
2. For university entrance, the American high-school students .
A. have to learn Chinese
B. learn more than one foreign language
C. take the Advanced Placement Test
D. used to have a test in Chinese
3. We can learn from the passage that .
A. Chinese will overtake all foreign languages in American high schools
B. Americans will know more about China
C. the U.S. government pays much attention to language studies
D. Chinese may take the place of English in American universities
