新視野大學英語2電子版書

1、新視野大學英語2 電子版書Section APre-reading ActivitiesFirst ListeningPlease listen to a short passage carefully and prepare to answer some questions.Second ListeningListen to the tape again. Then answer the following questionswith your own experiences.1) Why do you think big countries and big companies offer

2、jobs to people from abroad?2) One of your friends wants to accept a job overseas. What advice would you give him/her?3) If a company hires many people from a different country, does it have any responsibilities toward that country? Explain your answer.Stop Brain DrainA bill now before Congress would

3、 give preferential treatmentto foreign students with advanced degrees in science and engineering who want to work in the United States.To those of us who are immigrants, the bill seems simply to sanction a policy secretly implemented by U.S. industry for nearly four decades namely, stealing brains f

4、rom the third world.Ingeneral, the "21stCentury TechnologyResourcesandCommercial Leadership Act", which Sen. John McCain broughttothe Senatein late1999, is designed to keep theU.S.high-tech industry on top by fillingthe need for skilledtechnology workers. One provision of the bill states t

5、hat, among non-immigrantvisa applicants, the state should givepreference to foreign nationals with secondary degrees in math, science, engineering or technology. Such a provision would provide "temporary skilled personnel" in those fields.During the 1960s and 1970s, politicians in my nativ

6、e country, India, used to wave the slogan "Stop Brain Drain" a reference to the fact that the cream of India was leaving for the lucrative shores of England and America.In that post-independence era, when everything foreign was considered contaminated by colonialism, we talked of cottage i

7、ndustries and economic imperialism. We threw Coca-Cola out and invented "Thumbs Up Cola".But it was also the era of Sputnik, of nuclear power and the green revolution. Every year, on Independence Day, our Prime Minister Nehru spoke of the benefits of science and technology.Our institutes o

8、f technology, built with European and American aid, offered students free room and board, even salary. Indian taxpayers footed the bill in the hope that one day the graduates would help reconstruct the nation.I was one such student. But studying my textbooks late at night in the library of the India

9、n Institute of Technology (IIT), I would dream, not of India, but of America, the land of opportunity. Many students like me, indeed, left during those years, never to return.So our government set up special programs to tempt foreign graduates. Our leaders saw parallels to the independence movement

10、founded by people like Nehru and Gandhi who, after absorbing Western political thought at institutions like Eton and Oxford, returned home to serve their native land.But few foreign graduates came home to "pay their pledge", asNehru had put it. Our leaders had failed to see that the emphas

11、is on symbol manipulation at IIT left little room for social thought and much scope for the greedy outcomes of capital-driven business.Over the next two decades, IIT graduates educated at the expense of Indian taxpayers played a major role in founding California's Silicon Valley. The personal co

12、mputer revolution and the invention of the Internet made the demand for skilled labor mushroom to such tremendous proportions that even if every American child were to study nothing but science from now on, we would be unable to keep pace with demand in the decades to come.In other words, the legisl

13、ation would benefit not immigrants, but American industry which would be crippled without it. In India in the meantime, the entire education system has shifted gears to feed the appetite of the American computer industry.As IIT cannot graduate enough students to fill these needs, every street corner

14、 now sports billboards for private academies offering certificates in computer programming.At a book show in my hometown of Nagpur recently, large crowds of young people examined books on engineering and software.Comments about "Brain Drain" don't hold much water when every politician

15、has a son or daughter aiming to go abroad.And why bother rebuilding the nation when the only goal is to abandon it? At the Nagpur book show, for example, the latestAmerican social publications were conspicuous by their absence and India's politically conscious leadership has beenreplaced by a ne

16、w generation, riding on the wave of theInternet, making fortunes within a span of years.This new leadership has abandoned all talk of economic imperialism in favor of market economics. Indians now put flowers around Bill Gates' neck and offer him the kind of reception once offered only to the Qu

17、een. And Thumbs Up is a branch of Coca-Cola.Mid-sized cities like Bangalore are now the Silicon Valleys ofIndia their workers generate demand for the very productsis slowly disintegrating.that they produce. But the nation polluted.India's population recently hit 1billion, butits interiorframewor

18、k in water, transportationand healthcare is fastfalling apart; its citizens breatheair that isdangerouslyIndia had gone from an agricultural society to the cyber-revolution, without passing through intermediate stages such as the welfare state and the creation of social services.Perhaps it is time to pass legislation calling for a "Brain Trust".Funded by corporations like