The midterm exercise can be found at this link: http://www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/What-to-Do-About-Reverse-Brain-Drain-in-US-133076123.html
1. What is a synonym for "brightest minds?"
--> smartest people, most clever people, most intelligent people (multiple answers possible).
2. How does the article define "green card?"
--> proof of permanent residence
3. Write the main idea in one complete sentence.
(multiple answers possible)
Foreign students have trouble staying in the United States after graduation because it is difficult to obtain a green card.
The U.S. should change its immigration policies to allow foreign students to stay after graduating.
The U.S. faces reverse brain drain because green card issues force foreign students to leave after graduating.
First of all, thank you professor for the support and willingness to helps us, and believe this or not, the administration is against the students! no matter how much great marks you'll give us, in the end they will be forged, because let's be rational, three hundred students at the English studies( or less i'm not sure) all want to get their degrees with a good mark(+12 here). To them, it's a breaking point of the budget, and they want to move most of those students to the streets, or protesting in front of the Parliament(and then they discuss the same problems they created!). So you see, only the brightest(when i say the brightest i mean THE BRIGHTEST) students hold a clean shot through this mayhem called university.I'm sorry, university used to be the source of educated minds and the heart of the country, now, most of the students you see(including me) are only there because they din't get admitted in other institutes(which mostly provide two or three year diplomas). Sadly, university is like a resort, not an education place.
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