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WELCOME UNIT
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(2023·湖南省长沙市雅礼书院中学高一期中考试)When I was 14 years old, I was a straight A student in the middle school of our small town. I didn't try particularly hard. I just went to all my classes and paid attention. I could get good grades with minimal effort. I had a great group of friends too: kids I grew up with that I had known nearly all my life. We hung out together on weekends very often. It seemed there was nothing to be worried about. I think it was the happiest time in my teenage years.
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Then my family moved to the UK just before I went to high school because my father changed his job, and everything changed. I was the only Asian in my class. Overnight, I had no friends, and was in a new country where everyone was different. While trying to adapt to the new surroundings and cultures, it turned out that going to public school in a big city like London was much harder than the tiny classroom in my home country that I was used to. Teachers barely knew my name, and all the other kids thought I was strange because of my accent.
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It was so hard to fit in. I went to school alone, ate in the canteen alone, and studied in the library alone. No one even wanted to be in the same group with me in class as I always couldn't understand what other students were talking about. I would cry all night when I went back home. The only thing I dreamed of was going back to the place I once belonged to!
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The class and subjects in the UK were so much different to me. Although I had taken English classes before we moved here, the teachers spoke English so fast that I couldn't catch up at all! Just as I expected, I started under-performing: I tried so hard, but it just wasn't working. I studied a lot, but then I'd go to the exam, and would get so nervous. Sweating and trembling, I felt like my mind would go blank. All that effort, and I