选修7 Unit 5 Travelling abroad- Reading
7单元5选修出国读书
KEEP IT UP,XIE LEI
坚持下去，谢磊
CHINESE STUDENGT FITTING WELL
中国学生拟合
Six months ago Xie Lei said goodbye to her family and friends in China and boarded a plane for London. It was the first time she had ever left her motherland. "After getting my visa I was very excited because I had dreamed of this day for so long. But I was also very nervous as I didn't know what to expect," Xie Lei told me when I saw her waiting in a queue at the student cafeteria between lectures.
六个月前，谢蕾告别了她在中国的家人和朋友，登上了飞往伦敦的飞机。这是她第一次离开自己的祖国。”我的签证，我非常激动，因为我有梦想这一天这么很久以后。但是我也很紧张，因为我不知道会发生什么，”谢蕾告诉我，当我看到她在队列中等待，在讲座的学生食堂。
Xie Lei, who is 21 years old, has come to our university to study for a business qualification. She is halfway through the preparation year, which most foreign students complete before applying for a degree course. Xie Lei highly recommends it. "The preparation course is most beneficial," she said. "Studying here is quite different from studying in China, so you need some preparation first."
谢磊，谁是21岁，已经到了我们的大学攻读
工商管理资格证书。她是在一年前完成，多数的外国学生申请学位课程。谢磊高度推荐它。”制备过程是最有利的，“她说。”在这里学习与在中国学习完全不同，你首先需要做一些准备。”
"It's not just study that's difficult. You have to get used to a whole new way of life, which can take up all your concentration in the beginning," explained Xie Lei, who had lived all her life in the same city in China. She told me that she had had to learn almost everything again. "Sometimes I felt like a child," she said. "I 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 for. When I got lost and had to ask a passer-by for directions, I didn't always understand. They don't talk like they do on our listening tapes," she said, laughing.
“这不仅仅是在
学习困难。你得适应一种全新的生活方式，它可以把你所有的浓度在开始，”谢蕾解释，他一生生活在同一个城市在中国。她告诉我，她不得不几乎所有的学习了。”有时我觉得自己像个孩子，”她说。“我不得不学习如何使用电话，如何支付车费，如何向零售商的东西我不知道英语。当我迷路了，不得不向过路人问路，我不明白。他们都不说话，就像他们在听磁带，”她说，笑。
Xie Lei lives with a host family who give her lots of good advice. Although some foreign students live in student accommodation or apartments, some choose to board with English families. Living with host families, in which there may be other college students, gives her the chance to learn more about the new culture. "When I hear an idiom that I don't understand, I can ask my host family for help," explains Xie Lei. "Also, when I miss my family, it's a great comfort to have a substitute family to be with."
谢磊与寄宿家庭，他们给了她许多建议的生活。虽然一些外国学生住在学生宿舍或公寓里，有的选择板的英国家庭。寄宿家庭的生活，这有可能是其他的大学生，给她机会更多地了解这个新的文化。”当我听到一个成语，我不懂，我可以问我的寄宿家庭的帮助，”解释谢磊。”另外，我想念我的家人，有一个替代家庭在一起是个巨大的安慰。”
Xie Lei's preparation course is helping her to get used to the academic requirements of a Western university. "I remember the first essay I did for my tutor," she told me. "I found an article on the Internet that seemed to have exactly the information I needed. So I made a summary of the article, revised my draft and handed the essay in. I thought I would get a really good mark but I got an E. I was numb with shock! So I went to my tutor to ask the reason for his revision. First of all, he told me, I couldn't write what other people had said without acknowledging them. Besides, as far as he was concerned, what other people thought was not the most important thing. He wanted to know what I thought, which confused me because I thought that the author of the article knew far
more than I did. My tutor explained that I should read lots of different texts that contain different opinions and analyse what I read. Then, in my essay, I should give my own opinion and explain it by referring to other authors. Finally he even encouraged me to contradict the authors I'd read! At first I lacked confidence, but now I'm beginning to get the idea and my marks have improved. More importantly, I am now a more autonomous learner."
谢磊准备课程帮助她适应了西方大学的学术要求。”我记得我的导师的第一篇文章，”她告诉我。”我在网上找到一篇文章，似乎正是我所需要的信息。所以我做了一个总结性的文章，修改我的汇票交给篇。我想我会得到一个很好的标记但我有了一个我非常吃惊！所以我去了我的导师问他修订的原因。首先，他告诉我，我写不出什么其他的人说他们不承认。此外，在他看来，别人的想法并不是最重要的。他想知道我在想什么，把我弄糊涂了因为我认为这篇文章的作者知道的比我多得多。我的导师说我应该读过很多不同的意见和分析我读什么。然后，在我的论文，我应该给自己的观点和解释参照其他作者。最后，他甚至鼓励我和我读过的作者！起初，我缺乏自信，但是现在我开始知道我的成绩提高了。更重要的是，我现在更加自主的学习者。”
Xie Lei told me that she feels much more at home in England now, and what had seemed very strange before now appears quite normal. "I've just got one more thing to achieve. I have been so occupied with work that I haven't had time for social activities. I think it's important to have a balance between study and a social life, so I'm going to join a few clubs. Hope- fully I'll make some new friends."
谢蕾告诉我她在英国感到自在多了，什么似乎是很奇怪的事，现在看起来很正常。”我还有件事情要实现。我一直忙于工作，我没有时间去参加社会活动。我认为在学习与社会生活之间的平衡是很重要的，所以我打算参加一些俱乐部。希望全我交了一些新朋友。”
We will follow Xie Lei's progress in later editions of this newspaper but for now, we wish Xie Lei all the best in her new enterprise. She deserves to succeed.
我们将遵循谢磊在以后的版本中这报纸的进步但现在，我们祝愿谢磊一切尽在她的新企业。她应该成功