【正确答案】正确答案： From this chart, we can easily find that the population of Chinese students studying abroad was increasing significantly from 1996 to 2003, and reached the peak in 2002. The number increased along with the economic growth of China and the soaring of individual wealth, as we can see more and more self-supported Chinese students were studying abroad. Generally speaking, after the 21st century, the growing speed accelerated but fell during 2002 -2003, and then came to a balance, which means the yearly growth of Chinese students was smooth. As to the rapid drop of the number of Chinese students going abroad in the chart, if you"re concerned with social events, it"s easy to know the reason for this: SARS broke out and spread in China from the end of 2002 to 2003. It induced many foreign countries to hesitate with accepting Chinese students.