- 试题详情及答案解析
- Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they have to “re-learn” it upon arriving.
Words that we learned in English classes are not pronounced the same way here. To truly be part of the “melting pot”, fluency 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 nervous foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted to hide everything about me that was “different”. To talk like an American became one of my goals.
During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students complained they could not understand me. I learned later from a study that this complaint was common among US students with an international TA．It is called the “Oh, no!” syndrome (情绪、举动): “Oh，no! Not another international TA, and not that accent again!’’
So I imitated（模仿）the way native speakers talk and, over time, I made such good progress that American friends started to praise 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 places: the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea. Most frequently, people think I am from California.
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 absorbed into a new culture?
Now I realize that a person’s accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is amark of one’s experience and exposure to different cultures.
As a fourth-year student in the US，I am no longer a nervous foreigner. My nervousness has been replaced by a desire to hold on to my cultural origins.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 “perfect” English because I am proud of who I am.
【小题1】Why does the author think people have to “re-learn” English upon arriving? ( No more than 10 words).
【小题2】How did the author feel when others praised her English? (No more than 5 words)
【小题3】Why did the author decide to speak with a bit of a Chinese “accent”? (No more than 10 words)
【小题4】Please explain the underlined part in English in another way. (No more than 8 words)
【小题5】What is the article mainly about? (No more than 8 words)- 答案：【小题1】Because she thinks they need to learn an American accent.
【小题2】She was proud of herself./ She felt she was successful.
【小题3】Because she wanted to keep some of her Chinese identity.
【小题4】A strong will to keep her Chinese culture.
【小题5】The author’s changing attitude towards her Chinese accent.