湖南高考英语阅读填空题中的层次与框架_____何淑华.ppt

Suggested answers: 76. Host Family Accommodation 77. Advantages 78. Possibly becoming faster 79. Communicating with hosts 80. Cost of living 81. Worries/ Problems 82. Rise in expectation 83. Efforts/ Measures 84. Bettering living conditions 85. Conclusion 2007年湖南高考阅读填空 Para. 1 Host family accommodation, or living with host families, remains popular among language travel students for its advantages. These days, host families are trying to offer more in terms of quality, for they still have something to worry about. 2007年湖南高考阅读填空 Para. 2 Host family accommodation is often seen as the number-one choice for its advantages in language study, cultural communication and cost of living. Staying alongside host families enables students to get enough practice for the short time of their studying so that their language acquisition is likely to become faster. Living in host families also has the advantage for students of being able to spend a lot of time communicating with their “host parents”, and get to know the local way of life, people and culture. Another advantage is that host family accommodation can sometimes be the least expensive. It attracts students for it ensures them a family type of living at a low cost. 2007年湖南高考阅读填空 Para. 3 The advantages, however, have not prevented host families from worrying. On one hand, some host families are losing their unique selling point. The problem is that the majority of hosts in big cites, now generally single and young, have less times available for students but the selling point for host family accommodation is communication practice. One the other hand, students’ expectations have risen. They are becoming more demanding and asking for more than ever from their accommodation, as they come mainly from high socio-economic groups in their own countries. worries 2007年湖南高考阅读填空 Para.4 To get out of the difficult situation, host families are now making efforts to improve the quality of