You want to know about my staying in America, right? Well, to tell you the truth, it is really an eye-opening experience study here.
In China, I had English classes five times a week since fifth grade. However, I didn’t know how different textbook English could be from everyday English until I came to Hotchkiss School, Connecticut.
When I first studied English, I was told to say, “I am fine.” when people say “How are you?” But in the US, I found that people say, “I am good.” or “I’m tired.”
One day, someone greeted me with “What’s up?” It made me confused. I thought for a moment and then smiled because I didn’t know what to say.
Since then, I have discovered more and more differences between Chinese and US cultures.
To my surprise, US girls spend a lot of time in the burning sun to get a tan. However, in China, girls try every possible way to get their skin paler, or “whiter.” I also surprised by how hard-working US students are. In China, schoolwork is almost everything, so we study hard and that’s it. But here, a “good” student gets good grades, does a lot for the public and plays sports or music.
The kids here are so talented, I am starting to be sorry that I gave up playing the piano at an early age and that I have never thought about sports.
小題1: What does the word “tan” in the sixth paragraph mean in Chinese?
A．曬黑B．曬白C．能量D．保護(hù)
小題2: A good US student spends his/her time ________.
A．only in doing homework
B．only on sports
C．only on music
D．on studies, sports or music and public work
小題3:Which of the following is NOT true?
A．The writer is now in US.
B．American girls love to have white skin.
C．American girls love to have brown skin.
D．US students are talented and hard-working.
小題4: Which is the best title for the passage?
A．My Own Travel in the US
B．My Studying in the US
C．My Opinion about the US
D．My Studying in China
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The Program began in 1991.Today, it has become increasingly popular with college students in the United States.
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小題2: is the aim of the Program?(NO more than 15 words)
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The risk of having a heart attack on any given day should be one in seven, but a six-year study helped by researchers at the Free University of Berlin of more than 2,600 Germans showed that the average person had a 20 percent higher chance of having a heart attack on a Monday than on any other day.
Working Germans are particularly not protected against attack, with a 33 percent higher risk at the beginning of the working week. Non-workers, by comparison, appear to be no more at risk on a Monday than any other day.
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A．is not so serious as people thought
B．is harmful to working people in Germany and Italy
C．is the first killer in Germany and Italy.
D．is created by researchers in Germany and Italy
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C．people’s diet and lifestyle D．people’s nationalities
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A．blood pressureB．heart rateC．hormonal changesD．blood group
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B．33% of the Germans have heart diseases, therefore heart attacks are more common in Germany than in any other country.
C．20%of the Italians appear to have higher possibility of having heart attacks.
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The city of Valencia has been known since the 2nd century. In the 8th century it was the capital of Spain. There is also an important city in Venezuela named Valencia.
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I was a kid when I picked up the habit. In my family, lots of things were thrown into the freezer —finally, two freezers—to prevent them from going bad. Among them were some of the candies my sisters and I had collected on Halloween.
If we eat when they are still warm, we’ll find ourselves taking the cookies more than we should. It’s better if we can put them into the freezer and wait. That way we’ll eat less and enjoy them more because they are hard and chewing becomes a slower, more patient effort. That’s the point about frozen butter-cream frosting. Put it in your mouth at room temperature, and it’s gone very quickly. But when it’s frozen, you can enjoy the taste much longer as it melts(融化) in your mouth.
The freezer treats a lot of fruits kindly. Take frozen grapes for example, I keep a bowl of grapes in my freezer. They become a little icy, and somehow their sweetness is improved. They are perfect and healthy dessert(點心).This is the same with oranges, apples, bananas…You might think bananas would get super-hard when frozen. Wrong! They become cool, creamy and sweet. If you have wisely covered some or all of the bananas with melted chocolate before putting them into the freezer, they will have a double taste.
As long as you aren’t eating anything that truly has to be hot, go ahead and experiment.
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A．Fruit should be frozen before one eats it. B．Frozen food is better than hot food.
C．The author prefers frozen food.D．Hot food is not healthy.
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A．Because they need more time to prepare.
B．Because the taste is not good when they are hot.
C．Because they are too delicious to avoid our overeating.
D．Because we may eat them quickly and enjoy them less.
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Darwin’s rheas: Thought your dad was overprotective? Darwin’s rheas, also known as South American ostriches (鴕鳥), are so protective of their children that they have even been known to attack small airplanes on the ground if they get too close to their home!
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Bella DePaulo and a team of psychologists from the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, asked 77 undergraduates to keep a record of all their conversations for a week, and write down whether they lied at any time. DePaulo named lying broadly, as “when you intentionally try to mislead someone”, so she would catch the smallest of lies.
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D．Best friends can expect more insecurity than unmarried lovers.
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