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The truth is, we are in a crisis now, but it is a crisis that is(1) very slowly and very quietly. It is “a quiet crisis”, explained Shirley Jackson, the 2004 president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science and president of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute since 1999. And this quiet crisis involves the steady(2 )of America’s scientific and engineering base, (3 )has always been the source of American innovation and our rising standard of living.

“The sky is not falling, nothing horrible is going to happen today,” said Jackson, a physicist (4 ) who chooses her words carefully. “The U.S. is still the(5 ) for innovation in the world. It has the best graduate programs, the best scientific infrastructure, and the capital marked to exploit it. But there is a quiet crisis in U.S. science and technology that we have to(6 ). The U.S. today is in a truly global environment, and those competitor countries are not only wide awake, (7 ) running a marathon(8 )we are running sprints. If (9 ), this could challenge our preeminent and capacity to innovate.”

And (10 ) is our ability to constantly innovate new products, services, and companies that (11) the source of America’s horn of plenty and steadily widening middle class for the last two centuries. It was American innovators(12 )started Google, Intel, Microsoft, and Cisco, and it(13 )where innovation happens. The fact that all these companies are headquartered in America means that most of the (14 ) jobs are here, (15 ) these companies outsource or offshore some functions. The executives, the department heads, the sales force, and the senior researchers are all located in the cities (16 )the innovation happened. And their jobs create more jobs. The shrinking of the(17 )of young people with the knowledge skills to innovate won’t(18 )our standard of living overnight. (19 )only in fifteen or twenty years, when we discover we have a critical(20 ) of scientists and engineers capable of doing innovation or even just high-value-added technology work. Then this won’t be a quite crisis anymore, said Jackson, “It will be the real McCoy”.

1.A、 growing       B、 blooming       C、 resolving           D、 unfolding

2.A、 collision       B、 erosion           C、 diffusion           D、 illusion

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