Cost : $7,000 Organization : AFS
Experience : “ I think it was a turning point in my life . I began to understand more about my own culture by experiencing another culture and seeing how other people live.”
Name : Sara Small Age : 23 Place : Crivitz , Germany , 1996,
Cost : $8,000 Organization : EF Foundation
Experience: “I love the traveling and I made a lot of friends . I found the European school system to be hard but I am fluent now in German so it was worth it . I did miss my family and friends in Australia but I would love to do it again.”
Name : Leanne Smythe Age : 20 Place : Minnesota , America , 1994 .
Cost :$6,000 Organization : Southern Cross Culural Exchange
Experience : “I learnt how to be really responsible . It was great to be on my own and I got on really well with the family I was with . I will definitely go back one day.”
Name : David Links Age : 16 Place : Stuttgart , Germany , 1996.
Cost: $6,000 Organization : Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience : “I wanted to try something that was very different to Australia in culture . In Germany everything was different but I soon got settled . The family I was with were great and I really feel as though I have a second family.”
Name : Tom Jennings Age : 21 Place: Conflans, France , 1995.
Cost : $7,000 Organization : Southern Cross Cultural Exchange
Experience : “There were times when it was difficult but I liked it , experiencing a different culture . Yojust have to play each situation as it comes . If there is one thing yolearn when yoare on a student-exchange program, it is how to take care of yourself.”
Name : Linda Marks Age : 19 Place : Chonburi Province , Thailand, 1994 .
Cost : $3,500 Organization : Rotary International
Experience : “It’s like a roller-coaster ride : there are lots of ups and downs , but yoalways come back for more . I had a few problems but there was always someone to turn to and that was great.”
68.The students who mentioned both the good and bad time include .
A.Susan Lane and Sara Small B.Linda Marks and David Links
C.Tom Jennings and Linda Marks D.Leanne Smythe and Tom Jennings
69.The writing above would probably be .
A.the records of students’ activities
B.the foreign students’ name cards
C.the notice about a visit to foreign countries
D.the advertisement from an international travel service
70.The student who valued learning another language is .
A.Linda Marks B.Sara Small C.Tom Jennings D.Leanne Smythe
71.How many students mention the culture difference they have experienced ?
A.three B.Four C.Five D.Six E
British men are abandoning their stiff upper lips but still do not wear their hearts on their sleeves like Americans , a new survey showed . When it comes to strong emotion , the once serious British are now happy to shed tears quite openly .
“Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month . That is a very high figure,” said Peter Marsh , director of the Social Issues Research Center which took the emotional temperature of Britain. “Only two percent said they could not remember when they last cried,” the head of the independent research group said .
Long gone is the “No Tears—We’re British” time when emotion was considered distinctly bad form, “In our survey of 2,000 people , very few people in their forties or fifties had seen their father cry . Now it is twice as many,” he told reporters. “Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly acceptable.” Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a sad movie , book or TV program . Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings .
From the days of Empire , the British have always considered themselves models of reserve (含蓄缄默), laughing at “excitable foreigners” who show no self-control .
Marsh argued the divide was still there : “We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions.”
“But we are clearly changing . What we take as typical British reserve has significantly faded”
Women’s battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect——both in the workplace and at home . “Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting with women on equal terms much more so than a generation ago . They have to relate to the opposite sex . Women become more man-like and men become more female . That transfers into the work place too.” Marsh said .
72.The underlined phrase wear their hearts on their sleeves means .
A.wear their sleeves properly B.express their feeling openly
C.put their heart into their work D.have a heart-to-heart discussion
73.The British used to think crying in public .