Japan is running out of engineers
After years of fretting over coming shortages, the country is actually facing a dwindling number of young people entering engineering and technology-related fields. Universities call it “rikei banare,” or “flight from science.” The decline is growing so drastic that industry has begun advertising campaigns intended to make engineering look sexy and cool, and companies are slowly starting to import foreign workers, or sending jobs to where the engineers are, in Vietnam and India…
LEARN ENGLISH
Complete the following sentences with the correct form of appropriate words from the text:
- The village ………. to a tenth of its former size in the last twenty years.
(= The village has become 10 times smaller.)- The rising oil prices have caused a ……….. reduction in the demand for big
luxury cars. (= sudden and severe)- She spent the whole day ……… about other people’s problems. (= worrying)
- We ……… to go to Greece for our next holiday. (= have a plan to…)
- We look forward to greater success in the ……….. year. (= next year)
- We ………….. milk; I should go to the shops and buy some. (= have finished)
KEY: (Highlight the text below to read it more easily.)
1. has dwindled 2. drastic 3. fretting 4. intend 5. coming 6. have run out of
