完形填空。
     Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they
have to "re-learn" it   1   arriving.
     Words that we learned in English classes are not   2   the same way here. To truly be part of the "melting
pot",   3   in English is not enough. You need an accent to stand out.
     When I first came to the US for graduate school, I was a   4   foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted
to hide everything about me that was "  5  ". To talk like an American became one of my goals.
     During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students   6   they could not understand me. I learned
later from a study that this complaint was   7   among US students with an international TA. It is called the "Oh,
no!" syndrome (综合征):"Oh, no! Not another international TA, and not that   8   again!"
     So I imitated (模仿) the way   9   speakers talk and, over time, I made  10  good progress that American
friends started to  11  my English as having "almost no accent". I took this as a sign of my success. Ever since,
people have often  12  me for someone from many  13 : the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea.
Most frequently, people think I am from California.
     But then suddenly, conformity (一致) was  14  a praise: If I talk like an American, am I still Chinese? If I lose
my Chinese accent, do I also lose my cultural identity? Am I denying my past by being  15  into a new culture?
     Now I  16  that a person's accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is a 17  of one's
exposure to diverse cultures.
     As a fourth-year student in the US, I am no longer a nervous foreigner. My nervousness has been  18  by a
desire to hold on to my cultural  19 . Now I consciously add some Chinese "accent" when I speak. I do not wish
to speak " 20 " English because I am proud of who I am.
(     )1. A. before     
(     )2. A. put        
(     )3. A. fluency    
(     )4. A. nervous    
(     )5. A. valuable   
(     )6. A. complained 
(     )7. A. interesting
(     )8. A. accent     
(     )9. A. other      
(     )10. A. so        
(     )11. A. praise    
(     )12. A. regarded  
(     )13. A. countries 
(     )14. A. more than   
(     )15. A. melted    
(     )16. A. doubt     
(     )17. A. mark      
(     )18. A. changed   
(     )19. A. origins   
(     )20. A. poor      
B. if          
B. pronounced  
B. sense       
B. stupid      
B. different   
B. whispered   
B. rare        
B. trouble     
B. native      
B. such        
B. encourage   
B. mistaken    
B. cities      
B. no longer       
B. joined      
B. regret      
B. way         
B. dropped     
B. beliefs     
B. Chinese     
C. from          
C. used          
C. quality       
C. strange       
C. dangerous     
C. told          
C. common        
C. Chinese     
C. popular       
C. much          
C. criticize     
C. treated       
C. states        
C. nothing but   
C. absorbed    
C. notice        
C. fact          
C. replaced      
C. knowledge   
C. perfect     
D. upon                  
D. understood            
D. interest              
D. curious               
D. foolish               
D. informed              
D. special               
D. English               
D. famous                
D. many                  
D. teach               
D. thought               
D. places                
D. not as important as            
D. connected             
D. realize               
D. matter                
D. taken                 
D. understanding         
D. British             
阅读理解。
     Mrs Turner's telephone number was 3463, and the number of the cinema in town was 3464. People
often made mistakes and telephoned her when they actually wanted the cinema.
     One evening the telephone rang and Mrs Turner answered it. A tired man's voice came over the phone,
"At what time does your last film begin?" "I'm sorry," said Mrs Turner,"but you have the wrong number.
This is not the cinema." "Oh, it began twenty minutes ago?" said the man. "I'm sorry about that. Well,
good-bye." Mrs Turner was very surprised, so she told her husband. He laughed and said, "No, that wasn't
a mistake. The man's wife wanted to go to the cinema, but he was feeling tired, so he telephoned the cinema.
His wife heard him, but she didn't hear you. Now they will stay at home this evening, and the husband will
be happy."
1. When the tired man telephoned Mrs Turner by mistake, she was _____.
[     ]
A. angry
B. not at all surprised
C. pleased
D. surprised
2. Mrs Turner was surprised because the tired man _____.
[     ]
A. wanted the cinema but called a wrong number.
B. said something that had nothing to do with her answer.
C. asked her silly questions that she didn't know how to answer.
D. was angry with himself for having made the mistake.
3. Which of the following is TRUE?
[     ]
A. The Turners lived near the cinema.
B. Both of the Turners didn't want to go to the cinema.
C. The man didn't want to go to the cinema with his wife that night.
D. The man's wife was angry for what her husband had done.
4. The husband would be happy because he _____.
[     ]
A. made fun of his wife
B. could enjoy himself alone that night
C. could relax (使休息) himself at home
D. could have a good time at home with his wife

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