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新英语进阶·高中拓展阅读·基础篇

School uniforms are 10 (tradition) in Britain, but some schools are starting to get rid of

them. Some very good schools don t have a uniform policy. However, uniforms are still popular. Pupils

at about 90 percent of British secondary schools wear uniforms.
(浙江省 S9 联盟 2021—2022 学年高二上学期期中考试)
E (限时:25 min)

阅读下面材料,根据其内容和所给段落开头语续写两段,使之构成一篇完整的短文。 续写的

词数应为 150 左右。

When I was 14 years old, I was a straight A student in the middle school of our small town. I didn t

try particularly hard. I just went to all my classes and paid attention. I could get good grades with

minimal effort. I had a great group of friends too: kids I grew up with, that I had known nearly all my

life. We hung out together on weekends very often. It seemed there was nothing to be worried about.

Then my family moved to the UK just before I went to high school because my father changed his

job, and everything changed. I was the only Asian in my class. Overnight, I had no friends, and was in

a new country where everyone was different. While trying to adapt to the new surroundings and cultures,

it turned out that going to public school in a big city like London was much harder than the tiny

classroom in my home country that I was used to. Teachers barely knew my name, and all the other kids

thought I was strange because of my accent.

It was so hard to fit in. I went to school alone, ate in the canteen alone, and studied in the library

alone. No one even wanted to be in the same group with me in class as I always couldn t understand

what other students were talking about. I would cry all night when I went back home. The only thing I

dreamed of was going back to the place I once belonged to!

The class and subjects in the UK were so different to me. Although I had taken English classes before

we moved here, the teachers spoke English so fast that I couldn t catch up at all! Just as I expected, I started

underperforming: I tried so hard, but it just wasn t working. I studied a lot, but then I d go to the exam, and

would get so nervous. Sweating and trembling, I felt like my mind would go blank. All my effort didn t pay

off, and I failed anyway. I started to lose my self-confidence. Maybe I wasn t good enough.
(湖南省长沙市雅礼书院中学等 2022—2023 学年高一上学期期中联考)

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An English teacher, Kate, noticed that I was struggling.

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The after-school class really helped.

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