To stay economically competitive on a global scale, the United States needs 8 million more college graduates ___36___ That may sound impossible,___37___ according to Education at a Glance 2013, the ___38___ internationalreport on the state of education ___39___ Tuesday by the Organization forEconomic Cooperation and Development (OECD), the ___40___ is still the worldleader in producing college graduates. ___41___ , OECD data ___42___ that almosthalf of the world ’s university graduates come from three countries — the UnitedStates, China and Japan. 

___43___ the 34 OECD countries, ___44___ 26 percent of the total 255 millioncollege-educated ___45___ between the ages of 25 and 64 come from the UnitedStates. China comes in a distant second at 12.1 percent and Japan is a ___46___third at 11.4 percent. 

Global prosperity( 繁荣) won’t increase if only three nations ___47___higher education output, so it ’s exciting to see that the number of students ___48___to college increased 25 percent across all OECD countries ___49___ 1995 and 2012. If that ___50___ continues, 59 percent of young adults in those countrieswill go on to college, ___51___ 19 percent will enter vocational programs over theirlifetimes. 

 The number of students who actually graduate ___52___ college has increasedas well. In 2012, an average of 39 percent of students in OECD nations ___53___college, up from 20 percent in 1995. Since college dropouts ___54___ the U.S.economy billions of dollars every year, an international increase in graduation___55___ is good news for the entire planet. 

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For this part, you are allowed 30 minutes to write a composition on the topic The Most Important Influence on Young Adults . You should write

about 120 words following the Chinese outline given below.

(1)有些人认为父母对年轻人的影响较大，也有些人认为朋友对年轻人的影响较大

(2)我的看法

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Mary was very fond of television, so when she met a young man who workedfor a television company, she was very interested and asked him a lot ofquestions. She discovered that he had also worked for a film company, 【66.so sheasked him whether there was any difference between film work and televisionwork .】 

“Well,” answered the young man, “there is one very big difference. 【67.Ifsomeone makes a mistake while a film is being made, it is possible to stop anddo the scene again.】 In fact, one can do it over and over again a lot of times.Mistakes waste time, money and film, but the audience who see the film when itis finished don ’t know that anything went wrong. In a live television show, onthe other hand, the audience can see any mistakes that are made. ” 

“I can tell you a story about that, 【68. One day, a live television show wasgoing on, and one of the actors was supposed to have been shot.】 He fell to theground, and the camera moved somewhere else to allow time for me to run outwith a bottle of tomato sauce to pour on to him to look like blood. Butunfortunately the camera turned back to him before I had finished, 【69.and thepeople saw me pouring the sauce on to the man. ”】 

“Oh, how terrible! ” Mary said. “And what did you do? ” 

“Well”, answered the young man, “our television director is a very strictman.【70.If anyone makes a mistake, he fires him at once.】 So I just had to pretendthat this was part of the story and eat the man. ” 

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I don ’t know why you ’re so concerned._________________ (这毕竟不是你的问题 ).

For such a big house the price is fairly low. But you’ve got to _________________ (考虑维修所需要的钱 ).

My parents taught me not to take what ’s not mine. I ’ve always tried to_________________ (教育我的子女同样的价值观 ).

I understand the two factors that contributed to my downfall: _________________ (缺乏职业目标和缺乏自信 ).