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Audrey is a Chinese-American student. She has found many value(价值观) differences between Chinese and Americans.
About money
1) Americans would like to spend more than they have, so many of them are always in debt (欠债). Chinese usually spend less than they have, so many of them always have money left in the bank.
2) American kids love to make money by themselves. Chinese kids always ask their parents for money.
3) American parents think it is not useful to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities and that might make them very poor sometimes.
About school
1) Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups while Chinese girls take part in academic groups.
2) Some American students think that "B" is a gift while Chinese students think that "B" is terrible.
American parents and Chinese parents
American parents allow their daughters or sons to go out to have some part-time jobs in their free time or at the weekends. Chinese parents usually don’t allow their children to do so in middle or high schools.
The best title for the passage would probably be ______.
A:Differences between Chinese and Americans B:Chinese Students and American Students C:Chinese Parents and American Parents D:Chinese Values and American Values
This past academic year, 146 New York City kids from 4 to 14 dutifully attended Rosalyn Chao’s Mandarin class at St. Patrick’s Old Cathedral Academy. Many of the students were first-generation Americans; for several, Mandarin would be their third language, after English and Spanish.
Get used to this picture; around the world, more adults and kids are learning Chinese. Beijing is pouring money into new Confucius Institutes (Chinese language and culture centers), and two U.S. senators recently proposed spending $1.3 billion on Chinese-language programs over the next five years. From Ulan Bator to Chicago, it sometimes seems as if everyone is trying to learn the language now spoken by a fifth of the world’s population.
Their reasoning is easy to understand. China is booming, and citizens around the globe want a piece of the action. Speaking Mandarin can facilitate communication with newly wealthy Chinese tourists or smooth bilateral trade relations. In a form of intense cultural diplomacy, Beijing is also promoting its films, music, art and language as never before. Front and center are the Confucius Institutes, modeled on the British Council, Germany’s Goethe Institutes or the Alliance Francaise. China’s Ministry of Education is sending thousands of language instructors to foreign programs and inviting foreign students from Asia, Africa and elsewhere to study in its universities.
As a result, Beijing predicts that 100 million individuals will be studying Mandarin as a second language by the end of the decade. The U.S. Department of Education announced earlier this year that it hopes to have 5 percent of all elementary, secondary and college students enrolled in Mandarin studies by 2010.
The Chinese boom hasn’t escaped criticism, however. For one thing, the language is hard, with more than 2,500 characters generally employed in daily writing and a complex tonal speaking system. Then there’s the danger that other important languages, such as Russian or Japanese, will be neglected; for example, there are now 10 times more students learning Mandarin than Japanese in the United States. And other countries fear a growing encroachment(侵蚀) of Chinese power; some Africans have complained about Beijing’s "neocolonialist(新殖民主义)" attitudes, for example, and this could breed resentment against Confucius Institutes on their soil.
Yet most Mandarin students, like those at St. Pat’s, aren’t letting such concerns dissuade them. Mandarin represents a new way of thinking. Chao says that" we must begin preparing our students for the interconnected world." Accordingly, she has encouraged her Mandarin students to correspond with pen pals in Shanghai. Chao says that" in reading the Chinese students’ letters, we learned quickly that American students are far behind their Asian counterparts." If they hope to catch up to their Chinese competitors, her students--like the growing legions of Mandarin pupils around the globe -- are going to have to study hard indeed.
More and more people in the world learn Mandarin mainly because ______.
A:they want to facilitate communication with Chinese tourists. B:they want to profit from the prosperous Chinese economy. C:the Chinese government is investing heavily to promote Chinese. D:they can get financial support from their own governments.
Man’s story in China began many thousands of years ago. Remains of an early form of man discovered in China, known as Peking Man, indicate that Stone Age men lived in the area as long as 500,000 years ago. During the centuries that followed, their descendants laid the foundations of civilization in China.
Throughout its history, China has been a rich source of inventions. Silk, the compass, tea and porcelain originated there. In addition, they are responsible for the invention of paper and printing. The Chinese had used ink as early as 1200 B.C., an excellent type which they made from lampblack and which is known in English as India ink or China ink. By the end of the first century A.D., the Chinese had invented paper.
The Chinese also invented printing. Early Chinese printing is called block printing. The printer carved raised characters on a block of wood, wet the surface of the characters with ink, and pressed sheets of paper against them. Printers in the llth century went on to invent movable type of baked clay. The characters of the movable type could be rearranged to form different words and thus be used over and over again. The Chinese alphabet has about 40 thousand characters. Because of the difficulty of producing so many pieces of type, most Chinese printers continued to use block printing.
A:the landforms of China B:the people of China C:Chinese explorers D:Chinese history
Mart’s story in China began many thousands of years ago. Remains of an early form of man discovered in China, known as Peking Man, indicate that Stone Age men lived in the area as long as 500,000 years ago. During the centuries that followed, their descendants laid the foundations of civilization in Chin
A:the landforms of China B:the people of China C:Chinese explorers D:Chinese history
Mart’s story in China began many thousands of years ago. Remains of an early form of man discovered in China, known as Peking Man, indicate that Stone Age men lived in the area as long as 500,000 years ago. During the centuries that followed, their descendants laid the foundations of civilization in Chin
A:the landforms of China B:the people of China C:Chinese explorers D:Chinese history
Directions: There are five reading passages in this part. Each passage is
followed by four questions. For each question there are four suggested answers
marked A, B, C and D. Choose one best answer and blacken the corresponding
letter on the Answer Sheet.
Passage One
A:the landforms of China B:the people of China C:Chinese explorers D:Chinese history
Audrey is a Chinese-American student. She has found many value(价值观) differences between Chinese and Americans.
About money
1) Americans would like to spend more than they have, so many of them are always in debt (欠债). Chinese usually spend less than they have, so many of them always have money left in the bank.
2) American kids love to make money by themselves. Chinese kids always ask their parents for money.
3) American parents think it is not useful to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities and that might make them very poor sometimes.
About school
1) Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups while Chinese girls take part in academic groups.
2) Some American students think that "B" is a gift while Chinese students think that "B" is terrible.
American parents and Chinese parents
American parents allow their daughters or sons to go out to have some part-time jobs in their free time or at the weekends. Chinese parents usually don’t allow their children to do so in middle or high schools.
The best title for the passage would probably be ______.
A:Differences between Chinese and Americans B:Chinese Students and American Students C:Chinese Parents and American Parents D:Chinese Values and American Values
Audrey is a Chinese-American student. She has found many value(价值观) differences between Chinese and Americans.
About money
1) Americans would like to spend more than they have, so many of them are always in debt (欠债). Chinese usually spend less than they have, so many of them always have money left in the bank.
2) American kids love to make money by themselves. Chinese kids always ask their parents for money.
3) American parents think it is not useful to send their children to an expensive university. Chinese parents would do anything to send their children to good universities and that might make them very poor sometimes.
About school
1) Many American girls take part in sports, dancing and singing groups while Chinese girls take part in academic groups.
2) Some American students think that "B" is a gift while Chinese students think that "B" is terrible.
American parents and Chinese parents
American parents allow their daughters or sons to go out to have some part-time jobs in their free time or at the weekends. Chinese parents usually don’t allow their children to do so in middle or high schools.
The best title for the passage would probably be ______.
A:Differences between Chinese and Americans B:Chinese Students and American Students C:Chinese Parents and American Parents D:Chinese Values and American Values
