选修七Unit 5 Keep it up, Xie Lei再接再厉,谢蕾

选修七

Unit 5 Keep it up, Xie Lei

再接再厉，谢蕾

Chinese student fitting in well

中国学生适应能力强

Six

months

ago

Xie

Lei

said

goodbye

to

her

family

and

friends in China and boarded a plane for London.

六个月前，

谢蕾告别了她在中国的家人和朋友，登上了前往伦敦的飞

机。

< br>It

was

the first time she

had

ever

left

her motherland.

< br>这

是她第一次离开自己的祖国。

getting

my

visa

I

was

very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long.

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拿到签证后我很激动，因为我很久以前就梦想着能有这么

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But I was also very nervous as I didn't know what

to

expe ct,

但是我又非常紧张，

因为我不知道我所期望的是什

么。

”

Xie Lei told me when I saw her waiting

in

a queue

at

the

student

cafeteria

between

lectures.

课间休息时我在学生

餐厅碰到正排队的谢蕾，她告诉我说

.

Xie Lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university

to

study

for

a business qualification .

谢蕾今年

21

岁，来我们

She

is

halfway

through

the

preparation

year,

which

most

foreign

students

complete before applying for a degree c ourse.

大多数外籍学

生在申请学位课程之前都要学习一年 预科，

而谢蕾已经读完

半年了。

Xie Lei highly recommends it.

她非常看重预科课程。

preparation

course

is

most

beneficial,

she

said.

is

quite different from

studying in China, so

you need some preparation first.

她说：

“

预科课程非常有益。

在这儿学习跟在中国学习是相当不同的。

你必须事前做些准

备。

”

It's

not just study

that's

difficult.

“

困难不仅仅只在学

习方面，

< br>You

have

to

get

used

to

a

whole

new

way

of

life,

which can take up all your concentration in the beginning,

你还必须习惯一种 全新的生活方式，

在一开始的时候这

`

就会

占去你的全部精力，

”

explained

Xie

Lei,

who

had

lived

all

her life in the same city in China.

谢蕾解释说。

她在中国时一

直居住在同一座城市。

She told me that she had had to learn

almost

everything

again.

她还告诉我，几乎每件事她都得重

新学习。

她说：

“

有

时候我觉得自己像个小孩似的，

had

to

learn

how

to

use

the phone, how to pay bus fare, and how to ask a shopkeeper

for things I didn't know the English fo r.

我得学习如何使用电

话，乘公交车时该怎样付款，在商店买 东西时如果不知道商

品的英文名字时，

又怎样问店主。

When I got lost and had to

ask a passer-by for directions, I didn't always understa nd.

当

我迷路不得不向过路人问路时，经常听不懂他们说的话 。

They don't talk

like

they do on our listening tapes,

laughing.

他们说 的话不像我们在听力磁带上听到的那样，

”

谢蕾说着笑了。

Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good

advice.

谢蕾同房东一家人住在一起，他们给了她许多建议。

Although

some

foreign

students

live

in

student

accommodation

or

apartments,

some

choose

to

board

with

English

families.

虽然有些外国学生住在学生宿舍或公寓房

里，但是有些学生选择寄宿在英国人的家中。

Liv

ing

with

host families, in which there may be other college students,

give

s

her the chance to learn more about the new culture.

有

的房东家也许会住着其他大学生，

跟这样的人家住 在一起会

给她提供机会，更好地了解新的文化。

I

hear

an

idiom that I don't understand, I can ask my host family for

help,

“

当我听到我不理解的成语时，我可