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

选修七Unit 5 Keep it叫 Xie Lei再接再厉, 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, 蕾告别了她在中国的家人和朋友，登上了前往伦敦的飞机。 It was the 行rst time she had ever left^ her motherland.这是她 第—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 expects但是我又非常紧，因为我不知道我所期望的是什 么 o ”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 餐厅碰到正排队的蕾，她告诉我说. Xie Lei, who is 21 years old? has come to our university to study for a business qualification.蕾今年 21 岁，来我们大 学上学，希望获得工商管理书。She is halfway through the preparation yeai\ which most foreign students complete before applying for a decree course?大多数夕卜籍学生在申请 学位课程之前都要学习一年预科,而蕾已经读完半年了。Xie Lei highly recommends it?她非常看重预科课程。The preparation course is most beneficial, she said. nStudying here is quite different from studying in China, so you need some preparation first.H她说：预科课程非常有益。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 pet 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.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。nSometimes I felt like a child畀 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 didn*t know the English for.我得学习如何使用, 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 passe—by for directionSg I didn*t always understand?当我 迷路不得不向过路人问路时，经常听不懂他们说的话。They dont talk like they do on our listening tapes： she said： 血辿皿他们说的话不像我们在听力磁带上听到的那样，” 蕾说着笑了。 Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice.蕾同房东一家人住在一