eye-opening experience to study here.
In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didn"t know
how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School,
Connecticut.
When I first studied English, I was told to say, "I am fine" when people say "How are you?" But
in the US, I found that people say, "I am good" or "I"m tired".
One day, someone greeted me with "What"s up?" It made me confused. I thought for a moment
and then smiled because I didn"t know what to say.
Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures.
To my surprise, US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan(晒黑). However, in
China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler, or "whiter".
I was also surprised by how hardworking US students are. In China, schoolwork is almost
everything, so we study hard and that"s it. But here, a "good" student gets good grades, does a lot
of work for the public and plays sports or music.
The kids here are so talented, and I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at
an early age and that I have never thought about sports.
B. the same as
C. more difficult than
D. easier than
A. only in doing homework
B. only on sports or music
C. only in working for the public
D. on studies, sports or music and public work
B. American girls love to have white skin.
C. US students are talented and hard working.
D. The writer regrets(后悔) that he gave up playing the piano.
B. My Studying in the US
C. My Opinion about the US
D. My Friends in the US
Group projects are great practice for high school, college, and real life, when you will probably have
a job that requires working with others. Right now, group projects can be fun and they often allow
you to do a bigger, more interesting project than you could alone. With group work, you can actually
learn more in less time.
Group projects also give you a chance to get to know kids you might not otherwise know or talk
with. Group projects are also a great way to practice skills you"re not so sure of. For example: working
on a deadline, staying organized, or being patient. And if you"re a little nervous talking in front of a
group, a joint project can help you become more comfortable with it. Maybe your group will pick
you to tell the whole class about your project. If so, you"ll know your whole group is rooting for you!
One of the most important things about group work is talking and meeting together. It"s a good
idea to continually check with everybody on their progress to see if anyone needs help. You might
think the first step is to figure out who will do what, but actually it"s getting to know another a little.
Take a few minutes to chat. Even if you know each other well, it can help to take a minute to think
about your skills and share your strengths and weaknesses. The second step is to go over ground
rules from your teacher and any that you want to create together as a group.
B. learn more than you do alone
C. work in an organized way
D. get rid of shyness forever
B. support
C. offer
D. prevent
B. To find good topics to talk with them about.
C. To help them when they need help.
D. To make sure that their work is finished on time.
B. talking with group members should be the first step of group work
C. knowing persons is more important than your projects
D. rules from teachers are more important than working among group members
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1 One of the best things you can possibly do is to start your own club. It"s great fun especially
if you are the sort of person who feels there"s never anything to do during the school holidays.
The first thing you need to come up with is an idea for your club. 2 Pets, clothes, pop music or
dancing groups, sports, making things? The list is endless.
Next you need some friends to be in your club with you. 3 All you need is three or four other
people who are interested in the same thing as you.
4 You should all sit down somewhere together with lots of pieces of paper and write down
every name you can think up. That"ll keep you busy for ages.
At your first meeting you should make up a rule book. And the first rule should be no grown-ups
or little/big brothers or sisters! The best clubs are always secret!
Now you have just about everything you need, except membership cards. These are very important
and again you can speed a lot of time making them. 5 Why not leave some space for a photo of
yourself? That will make the membership card really look like it.
So there you are, get clubbing! Once you get started you"ll think of loads of more interesting things
to do!
A. That"s easy.
B. Enjoy your own club!
C. Invite a designer to join you.
D. What are you interest in?
E. Summer vacation is just around the corner.
F. Then you need to pick a name for your club.
G. Use a bright thick pen to make a special design.
I credit my typing skill to so many hours of chatting online. Unfortunately, as my typing speed
increased on the Internet, all grammatical rules went out of the window. You see instant messages
have their own shorthand language and grammar isn"t important, of which even a newbie (新手) is
aware. They can leave out articles, subjects (主语), pronouns, etc. They can misspell or "respell"
almost any word. They often ask "A/S/L" when they first chat. Abbreviations (缩写) and
capitalizations (大写) are particularly important. English-speaking instant messengers also refuse
to burden themselves with punctuation and capitalization.
After I came back China, I discovered not one but two instant messaging crazes. The first, which
brought back memories of my previous addiction to the computer, was QQ. I can see evidence that
the Chinese have the same kind of separate instant messaging language, even when they chat in
English. My first word in this language, for example, was "ft". This abbreviation for "faint" is used
whenever there is a need to express surprise. I also discovered that Chinese use the same kind of
abbreviation for a laugh. And there is an extraordinary number of smileys (表情符) to the "vomit"
and "army soldier" smileys. There is even a SARA smiley.
After QQ, there is another, perhaps more widespread messaging trend. You guessed it-cell phone
text messaging. I now understand how useful text messaging is and why it is so common. I admit that
I have been guilty of sending text messages while walking outside or sitting on the subway. Who
hasn"t ? No matter where I go, I see people on their cell phones, messaging. In fact, it"s rare to see
someone actually talking on their phone!
So it looks as if there is no escape from the instant messaging crazes, no matter where in the
world I go. And that"s plainly not going to change. In the end, though, I can"t complain: instant
messaging is quick, it"s cheap, it"s easy and it"s extremely fun too. And after all, everyone"s doing it.
B. occurred
C. disappeared
D. changed
B. There are enough smileys and icons to express yourselves while chatting on line.
C. The writer is skilled at typing and once was addicted to online games.
D. It is impolite to leave out some unimportant words or letters while chatting online.
B. widespread but unnecessary
C. quick but difficult to do
D. common, used and cheap
B. Why is instant messaging so popular?
C. Chatting online is good for your typing skill.
D. Chatting on QQ is natural for people.
adventure. Most of the opportunities are in 1 work. The pay is usually poor, but most people work
2 for the thrill of travel. You can pick grapes in France, entertain kids on American summer camps,
and, of course, there are always 3 in hotels and restaurants.
But it is not as easy as it used to be to find work. Unless you speak the language of the country well,
there will be very 4 openings. For example, when you arrive to wash dishes in a restaurant in Paris,
the owner will 5 you to speak French. British students only have a language 6 for jobs in the USA
and Australia.
Not every one 7 the experience. Sarah James was once responsible for forty American children in
Europe. During the 8 , one child lost his passport; four children were lost in Madrid for a whole day;
the whole group was thrown out of one hotel because of the 9 they made. Sarah says, "It really was
a 24-hour-a-day job since the kids never 10 ! And the pay was awful. It wasn"t worth it."
The trouble is that 11 expect to have an easy time of it. After all, they see it as a 12 . In practice,
though, they have to work hard. At the same time, all vacation work is casual work, and jobs are 13
only when the hotel, the restaurant, or the campsite is busy. But students have few employment 14 .
As soon as the holiday season finishes, companies will get rid of them. And if their employer doesn"t like
them, they"ll be 15 , too.
| ( ) 1. A. seasonal ( ) 2. A. hard ( ) 3. A. customers ( ) 4. A. good ( ) 5. A. teach ( ) 6. A. program ( ) 7. A. has ( ) 8. A. trip ( ) 9. A. promise ( )10. A. cried ( )11. A. children ( )12. A. job ( )13. A. countless ( )14. A. experiences ( )15. A. dismissed | B. mental B. voluntarily B. visitors B. new B. expect B. lesson B. enjoys B. flight B. progress B. studied B. students B. lesson B. available B. rules B. charged | C. professional C. abroad C. jobs C. attractive C. allow C. advantage C. forgets C. discussion C. complaint C. slept C. employers C. holiday C. interesting C. plans C. fined | D. formal D. continuously D. parties D. few D. forbid D. exam D. remembers D. ceremony D. noise D. helped D. parents D. shame D. boring D. rights D. punished |
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| Increasingly, Americans are becoming their own doctors, by going online to diagnose(诊断) their symptoms, order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some avoid doctors because of the high cost medical care(忧虑), especially if they lack health insurance(保险). Or they may stay because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption(消耗) or couch(睡椅) potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of negative experiences in the past. But playing doctor can also be a deadly game. Every day, more than six million American thru to the Internet for medical answers-most of them aren"t nearly skeptical(怀疑的) enough of what they find. A 2002 survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. They shouldn"t look up "headache", and the chances of finding reliable and complete information, free from a motivation for commercial gain, are only one in ten, reports an April 2005 Brown Medical School study. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as "high quality". Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to warm that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate(错误的) and even dangerous information exists on the Internet. The problem is that most people don"t know the safe way to surf the web. "They use a search engine(工具) like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that"s risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks authoritative (有权威的), so it"s hard to know whether what you"re reading is reasonable or not," says Dr. Sarah Bass from the National Cancer Institute. | |||
| 1. According to the text, an increasing number of American ________. | |||
| A. are suffering from mental disorders B. turn to Internet pharmacies for help C. like to play deadly games with doctors D. are skeptical about surfing medical websites | |||
| 2. Some American stay away from doctors because they ________. | |||
| A. find medical devices easy to operate B. prefer to be diagnosed online by doctors C. are afraid to face the truth of their health D. are afraid to misuse their health insurance | |||
| 3. According to the study of Brown Medical School, ________. | |||
| A. more than 6 million American distrust doctors B. only 1/10 of medical websites aim to make a profit C. about 1/10 of the websites surveyed are of high quality D. 72% of health websites offer incomplete and faulty facts | |||
| 4. Which of the following is the author"s argument? | |||
| A. It"s cheap to self-treat your own illnesses. B. It"s embarrassing to discuss your bad habits. C. It"s reasonable to put up a medical website. D. It"s dangerous to be your own doctor. | |||
| 5. Which of the following statement is TRUE? | |||
| A. Because of health insurance, Americans like to see doctors. B. It"s fun for Americans to play doctors. C. Recent studies showed that the Internet was not in order. D. You can trust what you"re reading on the Internet. |