高一英语阅读训练5

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 praise:If 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 person's accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is a__13__of one's 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 D．curious 4．A．valuable B．different C．dangerous D．foolish 5．A．complained B．whispered C．told D．informed 6．A．interesting B．rare C．common D．special 7．A．accent B．trouble C．Chinese D．English 8．A．other B．native C．popular D．famous 9．A．praise B．encourage C．criticize D．teach 10．A．countries B．cities C．states D．places 11．A．melted B．joined C．absorbed D．connected 12．A．doubt B．regret C．notice D．realize 13．A．mark B．way C．fact D．matter 14．A．changed B．dropped C．replaced D．taken 15．A．poor B．Chinese C．perfect D．British

B

The Canadian red and white maple leaf flag is officially called the National Flag of Canada. The Canadian flag shows a stylized red maple leaf with 11 points on a white background, with red borders down each side. The Canadian flag is twice as long as it is wide. The white square containing the red maple leaf is the same width as the flag.

The red and the white used in the National Flag of Canada were proclaimed the official colors of Canada in 1921 by King George. Although the maple leaf did not have its official status as a symbol of Canada until the announcement of the national flag in 1965, it had historically been used as a Canadian symbol, and was used in 1860 in decorations for the visit of the Prince of Wales to Canada. The 11 points on the maple leaf have