完形填空。
As an exchange student, I have been staying in a host family in Beijing for the past five months. The
parents are1in their mid-30s and the son just turned 5. In exchange for room and board, I teach their
son2.
Like in many of the other Chinese families, he's an only child. And though he has3plastic trucks and
boxes full of crayons, I don't know4he has the time to play. When he's not in the kindergarten, he's taking
after-school classes. On the weekends, the boy goes to more classes. He has one day off―Sunday.
Compared to his schedule, I feel like my childhood was5a waste of time. I learned how to climb trees
and draw cartoons. I wasn't learning Chinese at his age. But he and lots of other children are learning English.
Both his parents dream that he will have6jobs, higher pay, and bigger houses.
The boy seems to take no interest7learning English. He doesn't need a teacher, but a playmate. He is,
8, only 5. When I think about my life as a 5-year-old, I know for sure I wasn't half as9as he is.
In the evening, when his parents10him to speak with me in English, he gets11. He lies on the floors,
hides under the table and climbs on the furniture. When he finally stops12, and starts talking, it isn't in
English, but it isn't in Chinese,13. He speaks in his own language.
He14not be a very good student, but I'm not a great teacher. I just want to be his big brother15can
speak in gibberish (胡言乱语) with him and help draw trucks, robots or spiders.
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