2017英语专业八级作文话题：科学致富
2017英语专业八级作文话题：科学致富
2016专八改革后专八作文类型更趋于题材作文，不仅需要考生对词汇及语法的熟悉运用更是对考生思维拓展的一项考察，新东方在线英语专八频道整理了一系列2017英语专业八级作文话题供考生们参考练习。
Chinese President Xi Jinping has called upon the country's best and brightest to make more breakthroughs in science and technology, with billions of yuan being pumped into higher education.
Now, it seems that an increasing amount of that money is going into scientists' pockets. According to a new report by South China Morning Post, the ranks of millionaire scientists in China are growing rapidly.
A survey published in the scientific journal Nature concluded that university scientists in China made on average $40,000 a year in 2010, while their counterparts in the U.S. made double that amount. Now, the gap is vanishing.
"In major cities, more and more Chinese scientists are making as much as they can for the same position in the U.S.," a senior life scientist at Tsinghua University in Beijing told the SCMP.
Chinese professors with overseas experience get an average starting salary of about $120,000 a year, it added. Additionally, some university researchers can get a $100,000 bonus for each paper published by top academic journals.
There's also commercial potential in the scientists' research. A professor at Wuhan Institute of Technology in Hubei reportedly earned $2 million from selling ceramic coating technology to a company last year.
These top earning scientists have, however, come under fire, with critics questioning whether their heart truly lay in science – or in their paychecks.
中国国家主席习近平号召中国最杰出的优秀人才，要在科学技术领域做出更多突破，为此，数十亿元的资金投入到了高等教育中去。
而现在看起来，越来越大数额的钱进入了科学家们的腰包里。根据南华早报的一份最新报告显示，中国身价百万的科学家的数量正在迅速增长。
一项发表在科学杂志《自然》上面的文章总结称，中国高校的科学家在2010年的人均收入是4万美元，而在美国，科学家的收入要多一倍，但是，现在差距正在变得越来越小。
北京清华大学的一名高级生命科学家接受南华早报采访时表示：“在中国各大主要城市，越来越多的中国科学家的收入已经和美国科学家持平了。”
南华早报补充称，有海外留学经验的中国教授起薪是每年12万美元。此外，在一些高校，如果论文发表在顶级学术期刊中，研究者还可获得10万美元左右的奖金。
而一些科学家的研究中还有很多商业价值。据报道，武汉科技大学的一名教授在去年就通过出售陶瓷涂层技术获得了200万美元的收益。
不过，这些顶级科学家还是受到了批评，很多批评者质疑他们是在专心做科研，还是在赚钱。
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