昌邑市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解学生自编训练一.docVIP

山东省昌邑市2017高考英语一轮阅读理解学生自编训练一 阅读下列短文, 从给的四个选项 (A、B、C和D) 中, 选出最佳选项。 Bursting into the classroom from recess (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 Chinese (普通话)． “Confucius birthday！” the fifth graders shout in Mandarin. “Why do we celebrate Confucius birthday？” “Because hes the greatest teacher in the history of China！” exclaims a brownhaired girl. She is speaking Mandarin. English is rarely heard in Lisa Yangs 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. 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 worlds leading economy sometimes this century, schools in the U. S. are scrambling to add Mandarin to their list 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)． To develop Chineselanguage 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 classro