广播电视英语短句 第 264 课：在美留学生-1

A new report says the number of foreign students in the United States reached a record high in two thousand eight. 一份新的报道称2008年在美留学生数量创了历史最高。

More than six hundred seventy thousand international students attended an American college or university last year. 去年，美国的某所学院或大学涌进了超过6.7万外国留学生。

That was eight percent higher than the year before, the largest percentage increase since nineteen eighty. 这比去年高了8%，这是自1980年以来的最大增长。

The "Open Doors" report is published by the Institute of International Education, with support from the State Department.
这篇“门户开放”报道受国务院协助，由国际教育研究所发表。

It says the number of international students last year was almost fifteen percent higher than the last record setting year, two thousand two. 报道称，去年留学生的数量比最近一次的创纪录年--2002年几乎高了15%。