Welcome unit Section Ⅰ Listening and Speaking(讲义)-【红对勾讲与练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语必修第一册(人教版2019)

　 　 作者遵从父母的意愿,从异国他乡来到美国求 学,由此感受到了美、印学校的不同之处。 虽然这 些差别让作者一开始感到有些困惑,但她最终适应 了新的环境,爱上了自己的新学校。 I was walking into my first school in America. I had traveled a long distance from India in order to join my mother, who had been here for three years, hoping America would help my future. My father decided that I would be better off going to school here, so I enrolled (注 册) in the local high school in my new town. On the first day, I went to my second period class after I had missed my first. I was already confused because in India the teachers change according to periods while most of the students have the same periods. I opened the door slowly. Everyone􀆳s eyes were on me as I entered the room. Without paying attention to them, I went straight to the teacher and asked if this was the right class. With a soft voice he answered, “Yes. ” His voice made me feel a little relaxed. He gave me a piece of paper called Course Requirements, which I would never get in my previous school in India because we didn􀆳t have anything like that. Then he asked me to choose where I would sit. I didn􀆳t actually want to pick a seat. In India we had our own seat, so I never needed to worry about that. I spent the rest of the class taking notes from the pictures produced by the overhead projector (投影仪) . In Indian schools, we didn􀆳t use the technology we had. We had to take notes as the teacher spoke. At the end of the day, I was on my way to the bus which we didn􀆳t have in Indi