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Most people who travel from China to the US find that, despite having studied English for years, they
have to "re-learn" it  1  arriving.
Words that we learned in English classes are not  2  the same way here. To truly be part of the "melting
pot",  3  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  4  foreigner. I felt so out of place that I wanted
to hide everything about me that was "  5  ". To talk like an American became one of my goals.
During my first term as a teaching assistant (TA), my students  6  they could not understand me. I learned
later from a study that this complaint was  7  among US students with an international TA. It is called the "Oh,
no!" syndrome (综合征):"Oh, no! Not another international TA, and not that  8  again!"
So I imitated (模仿) the way  9  speakers talk and, over time, I made 10 good progress that American
friends started to 11 my English as having "almost no accent". I took this as a sign of my success. Ever since,
people have often 12 me for someone from many 13 : the Midwest, the West Coast, China, Japan, South Korea.
Most frequently, people think I am from California.
But then suddenly, conformity (一致) was 14 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 15 into a new culture?
Now I 16 that a person's accent is a permanent record of their past cultural experience and it is a17 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 18 by a
desire to hold on to my cultural 19 . Now I consciously add some Chinese "accent" when I speak. I do not wish
to speak " 20 " English because I am proud of who I am.

(     )1. A. before      (     )2. A. put         (     )3. A. fluency     (     )4. A. nervous     (     )5. A. valuable    (     )6. A. complained  (     )7. A. interesting (     )8. A. accent      (     )9. A. other       (     )10. A. so         (     )11. A. praise     (     )12. A. regarded   (     )13. A. countries  (     )14. A. more than    (     )15. A. melted     (     )16. A. doubt      (     )17. A. mark       (     )18. A. changed    (     )19. A. origins    (     )20. A. poor

B. if           B. pronounced   B. sense        B. stupid       B. different    B. whispered    B. rare         B. trouble      B. native       B. such         B. encourage    B. mistaken     B. cities       B. no longer        B. joined       B. regret       B. way          B. dropped      B. beliefs      B. Chinese

C. from           C. used           C. quality        C. strange        C. dangerous      C. told           C. common         C. Chinese      C. popular        C. much           C. criticize      C. treated        C. states         C. nothing but    C. absorbed     C. notice         C. fact           C. replaced       C. knowledge    C. perfect

D. upon                   D. understood             D. interest               D. curious                D. foolish                D. informed               D. special                D. English                D. famous                 D. many                   D. teach                D. thought                D. places                 D. not as important as             D. connected              D. realize                D. matter                 D. taken                  D. understanding          D. British

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