Summary Of The Reading
The reading is about an Australian girl called Tamara Blackmore who experienced culture shock by spending the junior year in an American college. She felt the difference of culture from the first moment that she was getting off the plane. American lives was very strange for Blackmore such as being time-oriented and Americans was always busy while Australians didn't feel to be busy.
one of the other things that was very odd for Blackmore was the American women who had eating disorders in order to be thin and skinny.
The difference between the legal drinking age in Australia and America was also another strange thing for Blackmore and The most thing that made Blackmore surprised was the relationship between students and teachers...!!! they all were like a big happy family
most of American colleges have gone out of their way to make a memorable experience for all Blackmores
could one of the masters in this forum like sepid12ir or JEFF_HARDY or linhu or SCYTHE or..... tell me my mistakes?!!!
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New Words(for me)
Understatement
Meaning: the practice of making things less important
Example: my speeches about myself always are understatement
Culture shock
M: a feeling of confusion and anxiety that someone experiences when they visit another country
Trauma
M: a mental condition caused by sever shock
Adventurous
M: willing to take risks and try new ideas
Ex: Some of my friends always want to be more adventurous
Junior
M: connected with the year before last year in a high school or university
Ex: I'm spending my junior year
Exchange students
M: students who go to high schools or universities outside of their home country
Enroll
M: to arrange to officially join some where
Ex: I have to enroll in university course
Tension
M: a feeling of anxiety and stress that make it impossible to be relax
Ex: I feel an unusual tension before all exams
Hectic
M: very busy
Ex: all of us have to deal with a hectic life
Tricky
M: difficult to do or deal with
Ex: fighting more than 3 minutes is tricky in competitions
Steering
M: the machinery in a vehicle that you use to control the direction it goes
Ex: I loosed the control of the steering when my car crashed
Congestion
M: the state of being crowded and full of traffic
Ex: Tehran has the most congestion in Iran
Perception
M: The way you notice things
Ex: just a few people have the real perception of love
Space
M: the freedom and time to think or do what you want
Adjustment
M: a small change made to something in order to correct or improve it
Ex: I've made some adjustments to my daily schedule
Perpetual motion
Ex: the heart is a perpetual motion muscle in our body
Guilty
M: feeling ashamed because you have done sth wrong
Ex: I always have a guilty feeling when I cheat in exams
Occasionally
M: sometimes but not often
Ex: I occasionally want to be online
pace
M: the speed that sth happens
Ex: my pace in studying is really slow
Concept
M: an idea connected with sth
Ex: the concept of people about politics is different from each other
Huddle
M: hold your arms and legs close to your body
Ex: I often huddle over my dreams
Odd
M: strange and unusual
Ex: the most odd thing for me is that I never can be successful
Compulsive
M: difficult to stop or control
Ex: she was so beautiful that everyone was watching her, compulsively
Skinny
M: very thin
Disorder
M: public violence
Eating disorder
M: a medical condition caused by intense fear of being overweight
Regulation
M: rule
Ex: Universities have some funny regulations in Iran
Set sth apart
M: to make sth different from others
Ex: his hairstyle sets him apart from others
Depersonalize
M: to make sth less personal
Faculty
M: all the teachers of a university or college
Ex: most of the teachers in azad university faculty can't teach as well as the teachers in the high school
Spirit
M: feeling
Ex: nothing is as powerful as the love spirit in the world
Sharp
M: clear
Ex: there was a sharp difference between votes in the election
Discreet
M: careful in what you say or you do, in order to keep sth secret
Ex: there is a discreet relationship between most of friends
Lecturer
M: a person who teaches in a university or college
Ex: he is a lecturer in math at our university
Go out of its away
M: to make a special effort to do sth
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Single Boy
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