Chinese student praised for inspiring US graduation speech

Receiving her Master of Science in Math Finance from Boston University, Cai Yujing, who comes from Nanjing city east China's Jiangsu Province, spoke about her hometown and family members present at the ceremony, and then shared her 6-year experience studying with students from different cultural backgrounds.

    In her 7-minute speech, Cai talked about how she adapted to the diverse community at the Questrom School of Business and established mutual understanding with fellow students.

    Overcoming awkwardness, nervousness, and even occasional anger when exchanging ideas with people from different countries, she said she also experienced the joy of sharing, inspiring and embracing each other, adding that such an experience opened her mind to learning about and embracing diversity.

    Cai's speech won a lot of praise online with some saying her address highlighted the positive perspective of Chinese students.

【写作内容】

1). 用约30个单词概述上述报道的主要内容；

2). 用约120个单词发表你的观点，内容包括：

⑴简要分析接纳和包容多元化的重要性（至少两点）；

⑵结合实例，谈谈在新环境中如何做到接纳和包容。

【写作要求】

1). 写作过程中不能直接引用原文语句；

2). 作文中不能出现真实姓名和学校名称；

3). 不必写标题。

【评分标准】

内容完整，语言规范，语篇连贯，词语适当。

【参考词汇】包容accept    v.      接纳 embrace   v.

参考词汇：折纸fold paper 注意：词数100左右。

    Geoffrey Hampden has a large circle of friends and is very popular at parties. Everybody admires him for his fine sense of humour-everybody, that is, except his six-year-old daughter, Jenny.

    Recently, one of Geoffrey's closest friends asked him to make a speech at a wedding reception. This is the sort of thing that Geoffrey loves. He prepared the speech carefully and went to the party with Jenny. He had included a large number of funny stories in the speech and, of course, it was a great success. As soon as he had finished, Jenny told him she wanted to go home. Geoffrey was a little disappointed by this but he did as his daughter asked.

    On the way home, Geoffrey wondered what Jenny thought of his speech.

注意：

1）所续写短文的词数应为50左右；

2）至少使用3个短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3）续写部分只有一段，开头语已为你写好；

4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

注意：词数不少于 60。

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Dear Peter,

Yours,

Li Hua

1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右;

2）至少使用5个短文中标有下划线的关键词语;

3）续写部分分为两段,每段的开头语已为你写好;

4）续写完成后,请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

Paragraph 1:

    Approaching the doorway, Jenny took a deep breath.

Paragraph 2:

    A gentle touch on her hair called her mind back.

    There were two men who occupied the same hospital room. One man was allowed to sit up in his bed for an hour a day to drain (排除)the liquids from his lungs. His bed was next to the room's only window. The other man had to spend all his time flat on his back.

    The men talked for hours every day. They spoke about their wives and families and their jobs. And every afternoon when the man by the window could sit up, he would pass the time by describing to his roommate all the things he could see outside the window. The man in the other bed would live for those one-hour periods where his world would be broadened by all the activity and color of the outside world.

    The window overlooked a park with a lovely lake, the man had said Ducks and swans played on the water while children sailed their model boats. Lovers walked arm in arm, and a fine view of the city could be seen in the distance. As the man by the window described all this in detail, the man on the other side of the room closed his eyes and imagined the beautiful scene.

    One warm afternoon, the man by the window described a parade passing by. Although the other man could not hear the band, he could see it in his mind's eye as the gentleman by the window described it. Unexpectedly, a strange thought entered his head: Why could he look out of the window? Why should he have all the pleasure of seeing everything while I never get to see anything? It didn't seem fair.

    As the thought developed, the man felt ashamed at first. But as the days passed and he missed seeing more sights, his envy turned into hate and soon turned him sour. He began to find himself unable to sleep. He should be by that window and that thought now controlled his life.

注意：

1）所续写短文的词数应为150左右；

2）应使用5个以上短文中标有下划线的关键词语；

3）续写部分分为两段，每段的开头语已为你写好；

4）续写完成后，请用下划线标出你所使用的关键词语。

paragraph 1:

    Late one night, as he lay staring at the ceiling, another man began to cough.

paragraph 2:

    As soon as it seemed reasonable, the man asked the nurse if he could move next to the window.