选修七unit-5-keep-it-up--xie-lei再接再厉-谢蕾.pdfVIP

选修七 Unit 5 Keep it up, Xie Lei 再接再厉，谢蕾 Chinese student fitting in well 中国学生适应能力强 Six months ago Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends in China and boarded a plane for London.六个月前，谢蕾告别了她在 中国的家人和朋友，登上了前 伦敦的飞机。It was the first time she had ever left her motherland.这是她第一次离开自己的祖国。After getting my visa I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long. “拿到签证后我很激动，因为我很久以前就梦想着能有这 么一天，But I was also very nervous as I didnt know what to expect, 但是我又非常紧张，因为我不知道我所期望的是什么。”Xie Lei told me when I saw her waiting in a queue at the student cafeteria between lectures.课间休息时我在学生餐厅碰到正排 队的谢蕾，她告 诉我说. Xie Lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university to study for a business qualification.谢蕾今年 21 岁，来我们大学上学，希望获 得工商管理资格证书。She is halfway through the preparation year, which most foreign students complete before applying for a degree course.大多数外籍学生在申请学位课程之前都要学 习一年 科，而 谢蕾已经读完半年了。Xie Lei highly recommends it.她非常看重 科 课 程 。 The preparation course is most beneficial, she said. Studying here is quite different from studying in China, so you need some preparation first.她说 ：“ 科课程非常有益。在这儿学习跟在 中国学习是相当不同的。你必须事前做些准备。” Its not just study thats difficult. “困难不仅仅只在学习方面， You have to get used to a whole new way of life, which can take up all your concentration in the beginning,你还必须习惯一种全新的生活 方式，在一开始的时候这`就会占去你的全部精力，” explained Xie Lei, who had lived all her life in the same city in China.谢蕾解释说。 她在中国时一直居住在同一座城市。She told me that she had had to learn almost everything again.她还告诉我，几乎每件事她都得重新 学习。Sometimes I felt like a child, she said.她说：“有时候我觉得自 己像个小孩似的，I had to learn how to use the phone, how to pay bus fare, and how to ask a shopkeeper for things I didnt know the English for.我得学习如何使用电话，乘公交车时该怎样付款，在商店 买东西时如果不知道商品的英文名字时，又怎样问店主。When I got lost and had to ask a passer-by for