Do you want to study in Tsinghua University in the future? If you do, then you'd better be able to swim or be ready to 1 to swim, or you can't graduate from the university.

    Tsinghua University recently said that, 2 from this year, new students need to take a swimming test. Students will 3 the test if they can swim 50 meters. 4 students can't take a swimming test, they must pass 5 before the end of their four year university life.

This rule caused a hot discussion(讨论). Some support it because they think it will 6 students do sports and 7 is also an important survival (生存) skill. 8 don't support it. They believe that the 9 doesn't think of personal wishes. 10 should have the right to decide whether to learn it 11 not.

    But according to a teacher of Tsinghua University, students don't need to be 12. The teacher said 90 percent of the students can swim after 13 the swimming lesson in their second year. The other 10 14 will receive instruction after class. And if the student is 15, he or she doesn't need to take the test.