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The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy an

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问题     The clock tower looks out over a 38-hectare campus graced by an ornamental lake and a pillared central hall. Add a little ivy and it could be almost any respected seat of learning in the West. Only the hemisphere is wrong. This is Ningbo campus of Nottingham University in China’s Zhejiang province, half a world away from its British home. Teaching is in English, the first language of the staff. Last year the college, a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise, opened its doors to 900 local students looking for an international education without leaving home. Within five years their numbers are forecast to reach 4,000. Say Nottingham University provost Ina Gow: "Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price?"
    Good question. International education is now a global industry worth $30 billion a year, with some 2 million students studying abroad, a figure that’s forecast to treble by 2020. In particular, the surging economies of India and China are producing far more would-be graduates than their own colleges can accommodate. But preferences are changing fast as thrifty students give up their traditional favorites in the West and choose to stay closer to home. That means a change in strategy for recruit-hungry colleges and governments. Says Andreas Schleicher, an education expert at the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, "The real international dimension is that we no longer move students around the world; we move the providers and contents instead."
    It doesn’t take a Ph. D to spot the trends. The United States still attracts more than a quarter of all overseas students, but its market share is slipping. Britain, in the second slot, saw the number of applicants from China dip by 20 percent last year. Factors include expense and tighter entry regulation. The United States last year relaxed some of its controls but not before losing some of the rich student business from the Middle East. British universities are complaining loudly at the government’s decision to double the price of a student visa.
    The big beneficiaries are back in the East, close to home for Indian and Chinese students. With generous state help, Australian colleges now attract 9 percent of overseas students, after a decade of double-digit increases. Australians’ goal: 560, 000 foreign students—almost three times today’s figure—by 2025, with Asians accounting for some 70 percent of the total. What’s good for the colleges is also good for the national accounts. International education now ranks as Australia’s fourth largest source of export dollars after coal, tourism and iron ore.
选项 A、it has a western style campus.
B、it charges half the price of Nottingham University.
C、it provides similar education as in Nottingham.
D、it is a joint venture with a Chinese enterprise.
答案C
解析 推理判断题。由题干中的Ningbo campus of Nottinsham University定位至首段第四句。从句中的This可以看出，前面内容也是对Ningbo campus的描述或介绍，因为题干提问该校区的主要特征，因此需要从首句看起。该段第二句和三句提到：再加点常春藤，这里几乎就是任何一所西方倍受尊崇的高等学府了。只不过是位于不同的半球。再根据后面的一些细节：用英语教学、英语是教职员工的第一语言…，向寻求不用离开家乡就可以获得国际教育的学生开放。还有伊娜.高的评论：如果可以半价在中国学习，为什么要跑到英国呢?可以推出Ninbo campus和Nouingham提供的教育几乎是一样的。首句对校园进行了描述：钟塔俯瞰着面积为38公顷的校园，校园中有碧波镶嵌，有立柱支撑的中心讲堂。由此不能得出校园是西式风格这一结论；该段末句指出：Why go all the way to Britain when you can study in China at half the price,因此学费半价是文中给出的细节。
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