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Mainland China in the 1940"s. Last summer, I was in Beijing to work at the Chinese Center for Disease
Control and Prevention.
For 20 years I was regarded as Chinese or Asian in America. So answering the question "Where are
you from?" in China with "United States" was a little uncomfortable, sometimes for both sides. Some
co-workers were surprised at my use of chopsticks and my taste for Chinese food, as if being "American" could only mean eating at McDonald"s.
Luckily, I was not always looked on as an American. One afternoon, I took a bus back to my
apartment. A local (当地人) was talking with a white American in English. When the American got up at
his stop, I took his seat and heard the local"s conversation with a friend sitting on the other side of her. The local told her friend she often talked with foreigners and that was the best way to learn spoken English.
Meanwhile, I sat there and wanted to tell her that an American was still next to her.
Then I received a call from a friend about meeting up to watch Peking Opera the next day. When I
hung up my cellphone, the woman sitting next to me asked for how long I had been learning English in
order to speak it that well. She was a bit disappointed at my answer that I was born in the US, but the
question led to an interesting conversation on language learning.
B. To do a job in China.
C. To learn more about China.
D. To help Chinese learn English.
B. knew some Chinese culture
C. didn"t like the life in China
D. didn"t come from the US
B. discuss how to learn Chinese
C. ask how to go somewhere
D. practice spoken English
B. an American who worked in China
C. a Japanese who could speak English
D. a local who liked Peking Opera
B. More American than Americans
C. A Chinese-American in China
D. Is English the global language?
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Although my students seemed to respond pretty well to my teaching, there was a small group of girls
who became more and more hostile (敌对的) towards me.
One day a fight happened in my classroom. Attempting to end it, I stepped in (居中调停) to face one of these hostile young women, who started hitting me in the face. Two boys jumped up to control the girl,
but the damage was done.
While the girl was suspended (暂时停学) for a few days, I was determined that she would not return
to my classroom. But I also prayed. I wanted to see all the students right there in my daily work at school.
On the top of my daily lesson-plan book, I wrote this statement, "To see all the children in my
classroom is always beautiful." With this view I could expect to heal any anger towards the girl in my heart.
After her suspension, she returned to my classroom. The student"s young mother was trying to raise six children while her husband was away in the war. The mother and I agreed to work together to help her
oldest daughter.
There were no more incidents of anger the rest of the year. In fact, in the seven years I remained at that school, I taught all six of this family"s children. When the youngest was in my class, the mother told me,
"Our family loves you. Every year one of my kids says, "I hope I"m in her class!""
The standard of seeing each of my students as a perfect one was the best teaching tool I had, and led to success.
B. doubted if she could be a good teacher
C. was sure to win love from her students
D. decided to change her students" life
B. She was hit by a girl.
C. She hit a girl in the face.
D. Her class was troubled by several girls.
B. She was driven out of school at once.
C. She had to stay at home for a few days.
D. She was beaten heavily by her mother.
B. she took her mother to school
C. the author was still angry with her
D. the author treated her with love
B. the author tried to let the girl come to her class
C. the girl"s mother was very thankful to the author at last
D. all the six kids of the woman are hard to teach
I was 1 and energetic. I understood that no matter how poor a person was, he could still 2 a dream.
My dream was to be a sportsman. 3 I was sixteen, I had started playing baseball. I could throw a
ninety-mile-per-hour fastball and hit anything that moved on the football field. I was also 4 : my
high-school coach was Ollie Jarvis, who not only believed in me, but taught me 5 to believe in myself.
He 6 me the difference between having a dream and realizing the dream. One particular 7 with Coach
Jarvis changed my life forever.
It was the summer between my junior and senior years, and a friend recommended (推荐) me for a
summer job. This meant a chance for money in my pocket-money for a new bike and new clothes, and
the 8 of savings for a house for my mother. Then I realized I would have to 9 summer baseball to deal
with the work schedule, and that meant I would have to tell Coach Jarvis I wouldn"t be playing.
When I told Coach Jarvis, he was as 10 as I expected him to be. "You have your whole life to
work," he said. "Your playing days are limited. You can"t 11 to waste them." I stood before him with
my head hanging, trying to think of the 12 that would explain 13 him why my dream of buying my
mom a house and having money in my pocket was worth facing his 14 in me.
"How much are you going to make at this job, son?" he asked. "Three twenty-five an hour," I replied.
"Well," he asked, "is $3.25 an hour the 15 of a dream?"
That simple question made it 16 to me the difference between 17 something right now and
following a dream. I 18 myself to sports that summer, and within the year I was 19 by the Pittsburgh
Pirates to play baseball, and was 20 a $20,000 contract. In 2000, I bought my mother the house of my
dream!
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| When my family moved to America from a small village in Guangdong, China, we brought not only our luggage, but also our village rules, customs and culture. One of the rules is that young people should always respect elders. Unluckily, this rule led to my very first embarrassment in the United States. I had a part-time job as a waiter in a Chinese restaurant. One time, when I was serving food to a middle-aged couple, the wife asked me how the food could be served so quickly. I told her that I had made sure they got their food quickly because I always respect the elderly. As soon as I said that, her face showed great displeasure. My manager, who happened to hear what I said, took me aside and gave me a long lecture about how sensitive (敏感) Americans are and how they dislike the description "old". I then walked back to the table and apologized to the wife. After the couple heard my reason, they understood that the problem was caused by cultural differences, so they laughed and were no longer angry. In my village in China, people are proud of being old. Not so many people live to be seventy or eighty, and people who reach such an age have the most knowledge and experience. Young people always respect older people because they know they can learn from their rich experience. However, in the United States, people think "growing old" is a problem since "old" shows that a person is going to retire or that the body is not working well. Here many people try to keep themselves away from growing old by doing exercises or jogging, and women put on makeup, hoping to look young. When I told the couple in the restaurant that I respect the elderly, they got angry because this caused them to feel they had failed to stay young. I had told them something they didn"t want to hear. After that, I changed the way I had been with older people. It is not that I don"t respect them any more; I still respect them, but now I don"t show my feelings through words. | ||||||||||||||
| 1. Jack brought the couple their food very fast because . | ||||||||||||||
| A. the manager asked him to do so B. he respected the elderly C. the couple wanted him to do so D. he wanted more pay | ||||||||||||||
| 2. When Jack called the couple "elderly", they became . | ||||||||||||||
| A. nervous B. satisfied C. unhappy D. excited | ||||||||||||||
| 3. In Jack"s hometown, . | ||||||||||||||
| A. people dislike being called "old" B. people are proud of being old C. many people reach the age of seventy or eighty D. the elderly are the first to get food in restaurants | ||||||||||||||
| 4. After this experience, Jack . | ||||||||||||||
| A. lost his job in the restaurant B. made friends with the couple C. no longer respected the elderly D. changed his way with older people | ||||||||||||||
| 5. Which of the following is TRUE? | ||||||||||||||
| A. The more Jack explained, the angrier the couple got. B. Jack wanted to show his feelings through words after his experience. C. The manager went back to the table and apologized to the couple. D. From this experience, Jack learned more about American culture. | ||||||||||||||
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| When I was in seventh grade, I was a candy striper (志愿做护士助手的小姑娘) at a local hospital in my town. Most of the 1 I spent there was with Mr Gillespie. He never had any 2 , and nobody seemed to care about his 3 . I spent many days there holding his hand and talking to him,_4_anything that needed to be done. He became a close friend of mine, 5 he responded with only an occasional squeeze(捏) of my hand. Mr Gillespie was in a coma(昏迷). I left for a week to vacation with my parents, and when I came back, Mr Gillespie was 6 . I didn"t have the 7 to ask any of the nurses where he was, for fear they might 8 me he had died. Several 9 later, when I was a junior in high school, I was at the gas station when I noticed a familiar face. When I 10 who it was, my eyes filled with tears. He was 11 ! I built up the courage to ask him if his name was Mr Gillespie. With a(n) 12 look on his face, he replied yes. I 13 how I knew him, and that I had spent many hours talking with him in the hospital. His eyes welled up with tears, and he gave me the warmest hug I had ever 14 . He began to tell me how, 15 he lay there comatose, he could hear me talking to him and could 16 me holding his hand the whole time. Mr Gillespie 17 believed that it was my voice and 18 that had kept him alive. Although I haven"t 19 him since, he fills my heart with 20 every day. I know that I made a difference between his life and his death. | ||||||||||||||
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