题目内容
Without electricity, people’s life ________ quite different today.
A. would have been B. should have been
C. would be D. could have been
C
【解析】
试题分析：考查虚拟语气。与现在事实或将来事实相反的虚拟条件句，条件从句的谓语用动词的过去式(be的过去式用were),主句的谓语用should（would,might，could）+动词原形。若与过去事实相反的虚拟条件句，条件从句的谓语形式为should(would,might,could）+have been.句意:没有电，人们现在的生活会变得很不同。故选C。
考点：考查虚拟语气
Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they have to “re-learn” it upon arriving.
Words that we learned in English classes are not pronounced the same way here. To truly be part of the “melting pot”, fluency 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 nervous foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted to hide everything about me that was “different”. To talk like an American became one of my goals.
During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students complained they could not understand me. I learned later from a study that this complaint was common among US students with an international TA．It is called the “Oh, no!” syndrome (情绪、举动): “Oh，no! Not another international TA, and not that accent again!’’
So I imitated（模仿）the way native speakers talk and, over time, I made such good progress that American friends started to praise my English as having “almost no accent’’. I took this as a sign of my success. Ever since, people have often mistaken me for someone from many places: the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea. Most frequently, people think I am from California.
Suddenly, conformity ( 一致) was no longer 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 absorbed into a new culture?
Now I realize that a person’s accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is amark of one’s experience and exposure to different cultures.
As a fourth-year student in the US，I am no longer a nervous foreigner. My nervousness has been replaced by a desire to hold on to my cultural origins. Now I consciously add some Chinese“accent” when I speak．I do not wish to speak “perfect” English because I am proud of who I am.
1.Why does the author think people have to “re-learn” English upon arriving? ( No more than 10 words).
2.How did the author feel when others praised her English? (No more than 5 words)
3.Why did the author decide to speak with a bit of a Chinese “accent”? (No more than 10 words)
4.Please explain the underlined part in English in another way. (No more than 8 words)
5.What is the article mainly about? (No more than 8 words)