试题题干
Reading Comprehension
从下列每篇短文的问题后所给的四个选择项中选出一个最佳答案。
At Sunday's graduation, Su-Kyeong Kim will speak to the 385 members of her class at Northfield Mount Hermon School. This might seem amazing for a girl who spoke hardly word of English when she came here from Korea four years ago at age15.
But Su-Kyeong herself is amazing. Besides becoming so fluent in English that she hasn't even a trace of an accent, she has also won numerous academic awards and has written a book about her experiences struggling with the language. Her teachers hope she will find a publisher soon for "Looking for Trouble," her 147-page, hand-bound volume.
Su-Kyeong saw the need for the book when she began helping newly arrived Korean students at the school and realized the newcomers suffered like her. "You think you are the only person being embarrassed making mistakes," she said in a recent interview on campus. "But everyone does it. Su-Kyeong believes it's OK to make mistakes. She calls her book "Looking for Trouble" because the road leading to success in mastering a second language is a risky path. "I want others to know that it's OK to make mistakes, she said, "that nothing worthwhile is without risk."
"Lots of people think other people do not make mistakes or are not as embarrassed as they are. It's not true. Everyone is embarrassed when they make a mistake and everyone makes mistakes. You can turn that mistake into a great step to your success."
In her book, Su-Kyeong wrote of her disappointment when her enthusiastic "Yes!" caused a student who had asked to sit at her lunch table to turn away. In fact, the student had asked, "Do you mind if I sit with you?" Su-Kyeong had heard, "May I sit with you?”
Her advice to those studying a second language is: "Look for trouble. You have to dare to learn another language. You can't sit in your own room and analyze grammar. You have to go and talk to people and listen to them."
In addition to the book and being chosen to speak at graduation, Su-Kyeong's rewards for following her own advice included the English as a Second Language Award in her freshman year, the Junior Class English Prize and the Departmental Award for Chinese. In September, Su-Kyeong will enter Stanford University in California where she plans to study Japanese and international business.