高一英语阅读训练5.doc

2014学年高一下学期英语阅读训练（5） 班别：高一（ ）班 姓名:__________ 学号:______ A Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they have to relearn it upon arriving. Words that we learned in English classes are not__1__the same way here. To be part of the melting pot, __2__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__3__foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted to hide everything about me that was __4__. To talk like an American became one of my goals. During my first term as a teaching assistant(TA), my students__5__they could not understand me. I learned later from a study that this complaint was__6__among the US students with an international TA. It is called the Oh, no！syndrome:Oh, no! Not another international TA, and not that__7__again！ So I imitated the way__8__speakers talk and, over time, I made such good progress that American friends started to__9__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__10__: the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan. Most frequently, people think I am from California. But then suddenly, conformity(一致) was no longer a praiseIf 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__11__into a new culture? Now I__12__that a persons accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is a__13__of ones exposure to diverse cultures. As a fourth-year student in the US, I am no longer a nervous foreigner. My nervousness has been__14__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 __15__ English because I am proud of who I am. 1．A．put B．pronounced C．used D．understood 2．A．fluency B．sense C．quality D．interest 3．A．nervous B．stupid C．strange