As an exchange student, I have been staying in a host family in Beijing for the past five months. The parents are
36 in their mid-30s and the son just turned 5. In exchange for room and board, I teach their son
37 .
Like in many of the other Chinese families, he’s an only child. And though he has
38 plastic trucks and boxes full of crayons, I don’t know
39 he has the time to play. When he’s not in the kindergarten, he’s taking after-school classes. On the weekends, the boy goes to more classes. He has one day off―Sunday.
Compared to his schedule, I feel like my childhood was
40 a waste of time. I learned how to climb trees and draw cartoons. I wasn’t learning Chinese at his age. But he and lots of other children are learning English. Both his parents dream that he will have
41 jobs, higher pay, and bigger houses.
The boy seems to take no interest
42 learning English. He doesn’t need a teacher, but a playmate. He is,
43 , only 5. When I think about my life as a 5-year-old, I know for sure I wasn’t half as
44 as he is.
In the evening, when his parents
45 him to speak with me in English, he gets
46 . He lies on the floors, hides under the table and climbs on the furniture. When he finally stops
47 , and starts talking, it isn’t in English, but it isn’t in Chinese,
48 . He speaks in his own language.
He
49 not be a very good student, but I’m not a great teacher. I just want to be his big brother
50 can speak in gibberish(胡言亂語) with him and help draw trucks, robots or spiders.
| 小題1: | | A．both | B．all | C．either | D．none |
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| 小題2: | | A．drawing | B．Chinese | C．English | D．playing |
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| 小題3: | | A．a hundred of | B．hundreds of | C．hundred of | D．hundreds |
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| 小題4: | | A．when | B．what | C．where | D．that |
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| 小題5: | | A．hardly | B．never | C．usually | D．almost |
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| 小題6: | | A．more | B．fewer | C．better | D．worse |
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| 小題8: | | A．after all | B．at all | C．first of all | D．all the time |
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| 小題9: | | A．busily | B．busiest | C．busier | D．busy |
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| 小題11: | | A．frustrated | B．relaxed | C．pleased | D．injured |
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| 小題12: | | A．move | B．to move | C．moving | D．moved |
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| 小題13: | | A．too | B．also | C．as well | D．either |
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| 小題15: | | A．who | B．whom | C．whose | D．which |
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Yesterday I was shopping for a few items(物品).With nothing to do at home, my son, who just left university, was ready to go together with me.
f their careers faster and more easily than they did in the past. Many men, on the other hand, like the idea of staying at home and looking after the children. “My children see a lot more of me than I saw of my father when I was young, and I think it’s better for them, especially for the boys,” says Da
vid. “It works just as well for Laura.”