47. Since the mid-1970s, the enrollment of overseas students has increased at an annual rate of 3.9 percent.

　　解析：定位到C段第2句：Over the past three decades the number of students leaving home each year to study abroad has grown at an annual rate of 3.9 percent, from 800,000 in 1975 to 2.5 million in 2004.

　　48. The enrollment of international students will have a positive impact on America rather than threaten its competitiveness.

　　解析：定位到I段第1句：Most Americans recognize that universities contribute to the nation’s well-being through their scientific research, but many fear that foreign students threaten American competitiveness by taking their knowledge and skills back home. They fail to grasp that welcoming foreign students to the United States has two important positive effects: first, the very best of them stay in the States and—like immigrants throughout history—strengthen the nation;

　　49. The way research is carried out in universities has changed as a result of globalization.

　　解析：定位到E段：Globalization is also reshaping the way research is done.

　　50. Of the newly hired professors in science and engineering in the United States, twenty percent come from foreign countries.

　　解析：定位到C段末句：In the United States, 20 percent of the newly hired professors in science and engineering are foreign-born, and in China many newly hired faculty members at the top research universities received their graduate education abroad.

　　51. The number of foreign students applying to U.S. universities decreased sharply after September 11 due to changes in the visa process.

　　解析：定位到H段第3句：In the wake of September 11, changes in the visa process caused a dramatic decline in the number of foreign students seeking admission to U.S. universities, and a corresponding surge in enrollments in Australia, Singapore and the U.K.

　　52. The U.S. federal funding for research has been unsteady for years.

　　解析：定位到G段第2句：Most politicians recognize the link between investment in science and national economic strength, but support for research funding has been unsteady.

　　53. Around the world, governments encourage the model of linking university-based science and industrial application.

　　解析：定位到F段第2、3句：The link between university-based science and industrial application is often indirect but sometimes highly visible: …. Around the world, governments have 　　encouraged copying of this model, perhaps most successfully in Cambridge, England, where Microsoft and scores of other leading software and biotechnology companies have set up shop around the university.

　　54. Present-day universities have become a powerful force for global integration.

　　解析：定位到A段第末句：But at same time, the opening of national borders to the flow of goods, services, information and especially people has made universities a powerful force for global integration, mutual understanding and geopolitical stability.

　　55. When foreign students leave America, they will bring American values back to their home countries.

　　解析：定位到I段第3句：…and second, foreign students who study in the United States become ambassadors for many of its most cherished values when they return home.

　　根據四級樣卷可知，全文共計9個段落，對應10題，這意味著必有一段對應兩題。事實上，從答案來看，其中有兩個段落分別對應了兩道題，有一個段落不對應任何題。

　　原快速閱讀的考試時間是15分鐘，原深度閱讀(含選詞填空+仔細閱讀)的考試時間是25分鐘，而調整后的閱讀理解(含選詞填空+長篇閱讀+仔細閱讀)考試時間是40分鐘，由此可推出新題型長篇閱讀的考試時間基本不變，大概15分鐘。

　　從樣卷來看，長篇閱讀主要考查段落信息匹配題。段落信息匹配題有4個特點：

　　1.絕對亂序：如第一個題干對應的并不是原文的第一段，而是第四段。

　　2.絕對同義轉換：如第49題題干中的“change”為E段首句中 “reshape”的同義轉換。

　　3.通常超細節：如第47題題干中的 “since the mid-1970s”, “3.9 percent”, 第50題題干中的 “twenty percent” 都是考查學生對數字這一小細節是否注意。

　　4.通常無特殊印刷體。

　　從這4大特點我們足以看出這類題的難度：絕對亂序意味著考生不能按“題文同序”原則逐一解題;同義轉換、超細節及無特殊印刷體意味著考生要費大量腦細胞去理解所讀到的每個信息，無法快速地定位!