Question

Now more than 40 million foreigners around the world are learning Chinese, according to a report. The relationship (关系) between the United States and China is becoming ______. It has really ______ the growth of Chinese language learning in the US.

I am Chris from the US. I am one of the many people learning ______. I am studying at a Confucius institute (孔子学院) in New York. There are 10 ______ in our class. Some are over 30 years old. Some are middle school students. Our Chinese teacher ______ Beijing. He often tells us some interesting things in China.

I think Chinese is ______ to learn. The biggest challenge for American learners is the writing. Chinese is ______ different from any other language in the world.

It will ______ me a lot of time to learn enough Chinese characters (汉字). But I think there are many advantages of spending time on the language. One big ______ is that it makes me see things from a different point of ______, because Chinese is such a different language from English.

I think for American students the most important advantage is that learning a different language can open up their mind.

1.A.worse B.poorer C.friendlier

2.A.stopped B.practiced C.influenced

3.A.English B.Chinese C.French

4.A.students B.workers C.teachers

5.A.comes to B.leaves for C.comes from

6.A.easy B.surprised C.difficult

7.A.slowly B.quickly C.completely

8.A.get B.take C.spend

9.A.advantage B.in C.at

10.A.idea B.view C.thought

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