摘要： A. expensive B. precious C. comfortable D. interesting 答案 21-25 DABCA 26-30 ADBAC 31-35 CAABC 36-40 DAACB Passage 52 (安徽省舒城中学2010届高三第一学期期中考试) Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they have to “re-learn it 36 arriving． Words that we learned in English classes are not 37 the same way here．To truly be part of the “melting pot , 38 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 39 foreigner．I felt so out of place that I wanted to hide everything about me that was “ 40 ．To talk like an American became one of my goals． During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students 41 they could not understand me．I learned later from a study that this complaints was 42 among US students with an international TA．It is called the “Oh, no! syndrome : “Oh.no! Not another international TA, and not that 43 again!’’ So I imitated the way 44 speakers talk and, over time, I made 45 good progress that American friends started to 46 my English as having “almost no accent’’．I took this as a sign of my success．Ever since, people have often 47 me for someone from many 48 : the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea．Most frequently, people think I am from California． But then suddenly, conformity was 49 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 50 into a new culture? Now I 51 that a person’s accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is a(n) 52 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 53 by a desire to hold on to my cultural 54 ．Now I consciously add some Chinese “accent’’ when I speak．I do not wish to speak“ 55 ’’ English because I am proud of who I am．

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