Bursting into the classroom from recess(学生的课间休息), 15 children take their seats and face the woman they know as Ms. Yang.

“What day is it today?”she asks, in Mandarin(普通话的旧称) Chinese.

“Confucius’ birthday!”the fifth graders shout in Mandarin.

“Why do we celebrate Confucius’ birthday?”

“Because he’s the greatest teacher in the history of China!”exclaims a brown-haired girl. She too is speaking Mandarin.

English is rarely heard in Lisa Yang’s class at the Chinese American International School(CAIS), despite the fact that few students are native speakers of Mandarin.

The United States is actively trying to increase the group of students in“critical languages”such as Mandarin. The students at CAIS are way ahead in such a trend.

Mandarin explosion in America

Founded 25 years ago, this small private school in San Francisco, USA, does what few other American schools do: It produces fully fluent speakers of Mandarin Chinese, by far the most commonly spoken language in the world.

Mandarin Chinese is suddenly hot in American schools. As China becomes the world’s leading economy sometimes this century, schools in the U.S. are scrambling to add Mandarin to their roster of foreign languages or expand Chinese programs already in place.

“It really is almost unprecedented(无前例的). People are looking at China as a force to be reckoned with…And to ensure that the U.S. has the ability to conduct trade, and to work with the Chinese, certainly having an understanding of Chinese language and culture is an advantage,”said Marty Abbott of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages(ACTFL)(美国外语教学协会).

Cultural differences in teaching styles

To develop Chinese-language programs has not been smooth. A shortage of trained teachers has made it difficult for some schools to join the race. When schools do get teachers, they often hire them straight from China, and the teachers usually suffer culture shock when they come to the U.S.

Robert Liu remembers his first two years in an American classroom. It was not an easy adjustment. “In China, students respect their teachers,”he said. Liu found that American students, however, expect an active teaching style. He had to use games to engage them rather than lectures.

To avoid many of the problems with foreign teaching styles, the CAIS has been working with the Chinese government to improve training of teachers who are sent to the U.S.

1.Which of the following is the best title?

2.What kind of problem is the most difficult to adjust in teaching Chinese in America?

3.The meaning of the underlined word“scrambling”is similar to      .

4.It can be inferred from the passage that       .

语音知识（共5小题；每题1分，满分5分）

        从 A、B、C和D四个选项中，找出其划线部分与所给单词的划线部分读音相同的选项。

1. dangerous    A. Canadian    B. January      C. balance       D. advanced

2. exact        A. expert      B. exhibition     C. exercise      D. exist

3. ground      A. house       B. country      C. group        D. cough

4. spare　　    A. fear　　　  B. earn　　　   C. pear　　　    D. beard

5. smooth     A. feather      B. tooth        C. thief         D. warmth

阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后从36—55各题所给的四个选项（A、B、C和D）中，选出最佳选项

I’m an operating engineer, running crane in New York City. I was in the countryside, playing golf when we got the call that a plane had   36   the World Trade Centre. We checked out of the hotel immediately and started   37   our way downtown. When I got home, I called the rescue center and they told me to come   38   and get on the   39   list.

The next morning I went down to the   40   at about 5 A. M., and four hours later I   41   the call to come down to West Street. I called my wife and told her not to   42   me, and that I would stay in   43   with her. I took the subway. It stopped at West Fourth Street, so I had to   44   the rest of the way.

And somewhere in there I became   45   that I was going into something I   46  . I once worked there in 1966 for the   47   of the World Trade Centre. On halfway on September 12, I was frightened to see the World Trade Centre was a huge pile, maybe ten   48   tall. And it was burning. I started to ask   49   in which my crane might be   50   a whistle blew suddenly warning us of some danger. I saw people running away and I really didn’t know what to do. So I did the same, too. It was as if they had   51   the bulls go in Spain and we were running through the street. People falling down, people   52   them up as they came by, and carrying them, just to get them out of the way, because something was extremely   53  . I didn’t even look back. We stopped running when we got to the Battery Tunnel, and I caught my   54   and said, “Oh, my God, I’m going to   55  .”

Then I settled down a little bit, thinking about what we should do next. As we started again we knocked into a fire chief officer and we asked, “What can we do to help you?”

A．noticed  B．reached     C．hit     D．passed

A．finding  B．making     C．getting      D．losing

A．away     B．near  C．in      D．down

A．volunteer      B．soldier      C．police       D．fireman

A．company       B．hotel C．center     D．home

A．answered       B．made       C．heard D．got

A．miss      B．forget       C．stop   D．expect

A．peace     B．touch C．silence    D．anger

A．walk      B．complete   C．cancel       D．smooth

A．delighted     B．frightened C．surprised   D．interested

A．built    B．met   C．designed   D．had

A．construction B．plan  C．destruction       D．use

A．miles   B．meters      C．stories      D．floors

A．ways    B．numbers   C．position    D．directions

A．as B．why  C．when D．because

A．driven  B．let     C．asked D．enjoyed

A．pushing       B．giving      C．holding     D．picking

A．dangerous    B．urgent      C．emergent  D．important

A．view    B．sight  C．breath       D．sense

A．leave    B．die    C．remain      D．work

While typing, Helen has a habit of stopping _____ to give her long and flowing hair a smooth.

   A. occasionally    B. simultaneously

   C. eventually      D. directly

Elephants have their own way to tell the shape of an object and _______ it is rough or smooth.

A. / B. whether ?

C. how D. what?