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Choosing to Study Overseas

Every year, thousands of students choose to study in another country for a semester(学期), the summer, or a year.Studying overseas can be an exciting experience for many people.

●_1.__

Living in another country can help you to learn a language, and about another culture.

_2._Overseas study may also look good on your future resume. Many companies today want employees who speak a second language, or have experienced living or working in another country.

●Making the right choice

Once you decide to study overseas, you have to make some choices.To choose the right country or school, ask yourself: Where do I want to go and why? How much do I want to pay?

_3.__Do I want to live with a host family, with roommates, or alone?

●Getting ready to go

Get your passport and visa early! __4.__Learn about the money.Bring some of it, and a credit card, with you.

●Once you are there

After the first few weeks overseas,many students will feel a little homesick.They may miss their family, friends, and familiar ways of doing things.__ 5.__When you feel sad or homesick, try to talk to

others, or write about your feelings in a notebook.

A.Why do it?

B.How long do I want to study overseas?

C.You should improve your mother tongue before you go.

D.A large number of students can't afford to study overseas.

E.You will see the world in a new way and learn more about yourself.

F.Remember that it takes time to get used to a new place, school, and culture.

G.Before you go, learn some of the language, and read about some common customs in your host country.

My friend BJ Gallagher once worked as a training manager for a large newspaper, which was more than a hundred years old.The company’s past had blinded the authorities to the need for change, and they new ideas and would say “This is the way we’ve always done it.”.As the years went by, BJ grew more and more with their short-sightedness.Finally, she left the company.But she found that she hadn’t left her behind when she resigned.She carried it with her, like “rocks in the stomach”.

“I finally decided to about my experiences and my feelings.I it would be a good mental health .I wanted to be rid of that company and those people, once and for all.So I wrote and wrote.It wasn’t just a story that poured out — it was a whole ! My resentment (怨恨) my writing.The whole world would know how they were!”

“What when the book came out?” I asked BJ.

“Not much,” she replied, “The newspaper kept doing what it had done.My feelings didn’t them one bit, but it took me several more years to finally my negative emotions.Finally, the time came when I decided to make amends (修正) for the angry things I had said about the company.I my former boss to dinner and made my .I told him I was sorry for being so resentful.It was a great healing process for me.”

“What was the outcome?” I asked her.

“Gratitude,” she replied, “Not only wasn’t I resentful any more, but I was grateful to the company.If I hadn’t had those experiences, I never would have written a book.And the book became hugely successful — now in 21 languages.In short, my resentment gave way to gratitude.”

She smiled, “I owe them a debt of thanks for giving me such a great tale to tell.”

Trading resentments for gratitude isn’t always easy.But it’s worth it, gratitude is a far happier feeling than resentment.

1.A. skill B.management C. success D. business

2.A. resisted B. got C. broke D. shaped

3.A. move B. frustrated C. excited D. surprised

4.A. sadness B. worry C. doubt D. anger

5.A. think B. are C. write D. talk

6.A. proved B. figured C. concluded D. agreed

7.A. exercise B. suggestion C. lecture D. theory

8.A. diary B. lesson C. accident D. book

9.A. prevented B. delayed C. fueled D.corrected

10.A. sensitive B. successful C. greedy D. stupid

11.A. happened B. reported C. received D. resulted

12.A. sometimes B. always C. recently D. already

13.A. forgive B. reward C. bother D. cheat

14.A. think of B. get over C. pass on D. look through

15.A. invited B. called C. persuaded D. followed

16.A. promise B. apology C. plan D. decision

17.A. only B. natural C. direct D. final

18.A. useful B. funny C. painful D. shameful

19.A. finished B. edited C. read D. published

20.A. for B. though C. but D. and

After Mom died, I began visiting Dad every morning before I went to work. He was frail and moved slowly, but he always had a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice on the kitchen table for me, along with an unsigned note reading, "Drink your juice." Such a gesturere, I knew, was as far as Dad had ever been able to go in expressing his love. In fact, I remember, as a kid I had questioned Mom "Why doesn't Dad love me?" Mom frowned, "Who said he doesn't love you?" "Well, he never tells me," I complained. "He never tells me either," she said, smiling. "But look how hard he works to take care of us, to buy us food and clothes, and to pay for this house. That's how your father tells us he loves us."

I nodded slowly. I understood in my head, but not in my heart. I still wanted my father to put his arms around me and tell me he loved me. Dad owned and operated a small scrap (片) metal business, and after school I often hung around while he worked. Dad hand fed scrap steel into a device that chopped as cleanly as a butcher chops a rack of ribs. The machine looked like a giant pair of scissors. with blades thicker than my father's body. If he didn't feed those terrifying blades just right, he risked serious injury. "Why don't you hire someone to do that for you?" Mom asked Dad one night as she bent over him and rubbed his aching shoulders with a strong smelling liniment. "Why don't you hire a cook?" Dad asked, giving her one of his rare smiles.

Many years later, during my first daily visit, after drinking the juice my father had squeezed for me, I walked over, hugged him and said, "I love you, Dad." From then on I did this every morning. My father never told me how he felt about my hugs, and there was never any expression on his face when I gave them.

1.The author's father always prepared a glass of freshly squeezed orange juice for him because ____.

A. that was the author's favorite

B. he was sure the author would be thirsty

C. the author was always complaining

D. that was a gesture of love

2.The author's father didn't hire a helper because ____.

A. his job was too dangerous

B. his job required high skills

C. he wanted to save money

D. he was not good at communicating with others

3. We may infer from the passage that ____.

A. the author's father lacked a sense of humor

B. the author quite understood his father as time went on

C. the author's father didn't love him very much

D. the author's father was too strict with him

4. What would be the best title for the passage?

A. I just couldn't understand my father

B. My father never loved me

C. Silent fatherly love

D. My hard-working father

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