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Recently, I had lunch with a young Chinese student who studies at a college in New York. He is very bright and ambitious and I enjoyed our conversation. Still, I felt upset and useless afterwards because I was not able to provide him with any good news. Graduating at the end of this year, he asked me how he could find a job in this country and fulfill his career dreams.

In recent years, students who found a job here after graduation have had to go through a cruel lottery system to obtain their H-1B working visa. And the success rates have been declining year after year because of the ever growing number of applicants. Last year, there were 233,000 applicants and only 30 percent of them were lucky, about half of the rate in 2013.

And it can only become worse. US former President Donald Trump’s immigration policies in this country have been tightening up and this trend will continue for at least the next few years. In this case, foreign students studying social sciences, a field in which starting salaries are rarely above the required amount, can kiss their visa hopes goodbye.

Compared to the older generation of Chinese students, today’s young people no longer consider the US as the only option. Many start to think China offers better opportunities in the longer term.

This is not to say that Chinese students in the US are not interested in job opportunities here any more. A few years of work experience in the US can give them advantages when they finally land back in their home country. But if the job opportunities are largely reduced by the tightening of immigration policy, I expect there will be a decline. And if that happens, it is the American economy that will suffer from the loss of those educated, hard-working and talented immigrants.

【小题1】The author felt useless because ___.

A．he couldn’t find a job in the fierce job market.

B．he was less bright and ambitious than the Chinese young student.

C．he couldn’t win the cruel lottery.

D．he had to make the Chinese student realize it was difficult to find work there.

【小题2】Which is not the reason why foreign students have difficulty finding jobs in the US?

A．It is increasingly hard for them to get their H-1B working visa.

B．The number of applicants in the job market is ever growing.

C．Donald Trump’s immigration policies have been tightening up.

D．The starting salaries they require are higher than expected.

【小题3】Supposing there were 250, 000 applicants in 2013, how many of them got their H-1B working visa?

A．125, 000.