It was yearbook day and we were given an hour to sign each other's yearbooks in the cafeteria.I was president of the class and I played sports.When I sat down at a table, people started to come over to get their yearbooks signed and to sign 1 .
Among them, a weak boy with ugly teeth and thick glasses kept shaking.I had seen him around, and I knew he was always laughed at.He seemed 2 of himself, and was so pale that it 3 us to look at him.
He came up and asked me nervously,“Can you sign this?”I took his yearbook but I didn't know 4 to write.I saw that there was the name“Ricky Sanders”written on the front of it.So I wrote:
I put down the yearbook and turned around to get some signatures from some of my friends when I 5 my yearbook was gone.I saw that Ricky had sat down with my yearbook.“What are you doing?”I asked him.He looked up calmly(平静地)and 6 said“Sign!”
My friends broke into a loud laugh, and I saw that he was carefully frying to put a signature in my yearbook.He hadn't even finished the“R”yet.I thought for a while and 7 to let him sign.
It took him nearly five minutes to sign and when I got my yearbook back, there was a very shaky“RICKY”.He hugged(紧抱)his yearbook and 8 .I couldn't help but smile back at him.
In that moment, my 9 changed completely.
I gave him a high five and suddenly everyone at my table wanted his signature.He was asked politely to write in their yearbooks and the signature 10 of his yearbook were filled up.He was smiling so big that it lit up the whole room.
I changed school the next year, and I never saw Ricky again.However, I will never forget the day that he became the most 11 guy in school.Whenever I'm 12 , I still look back at that yearbook.
One day during our holiday in England,my friend and I went to the train station to buy the tickets to Dover.As native speakers of English,we did not expect to have problems in England.
“Two tickets to Dover,please.”I said to the ticket seller.
“Single?”the ticket seller asked me.
I thought that she was hard of hearing and I repeated my request a little louder.
“Two tickets to Dover!”I shouted.
At that moment a man saved us.He said that“a single ticket”in Great Britain does not mean“one ticket”,it means“a one-way ticket”.
My experience in England taught me that there are some differences between British and American English.British English,for example,does not use the sound[?r].That is very common in American English.An English man may ask if you want white coffee or white tea.And an American asks if you want your coffee or tea with milk.We can find some differences such as the British saying“He is in hospital”,but the American saying“He is in the hospital”.
Americans write words like color without the“u”of the English colour.
[ ]
A.
a good listener
B.
a careless listener
C.
a hardworking person
D.
hard of hearing
(2)
“A single ticket”in Great Britain means________.
[ ]
A.
one ticket
B.
a one-way ticket
C.
a ticket for one person
D.
a ticket for one seat
(3)
The writer’s experience in England taught him that________ between British and American English.
[ ]
A.
there are few differences
B.
there aren’t any differences
C.
there are great differences
D.
there are some differences
(4)
In Great Britain,if you want your coffee with milk,you may say,“I’d like________.”