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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

Answer 1

1-5: D B A A B   6-10: A C A B B   11-15: A B D B C   16-20: D A C A C