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（整理版高中英语）单元延伸阅读1 单元延伸阅读 1 〔建议：同学们，根据高考阅读文章长、信息量大的特点，我们将对课本话题进行延伸阅 读。保持每天阅读 1-3 篇文章。如果文章 500 词以上，就读一篇 500 词以下就读 2 篇。 保持到高考前，定能超过《课标》要求，在高考时得到高分。加油！〕 1． CULTURAL DIFFERENCES: JAPANESE AND AMERICAN CLASSROOMS It has been about 10 days since I came to the USA. This is my first time to come to the USA, so at the beginning I had no idea about everything surrounding me, especially, about how my studies would be going. But actually, as time goes by I have gotten to know how an American University is. So, today, I would like to write about the differences between American and Japanese Universities. First, I have noticed a difference between an American University and a Japanese University in terms of the style of a lesson. In Japan, students attending a class never talk to the professor during the lecture, even if they have a question about the thing that the professor is talking about. They just listen to the lecture, and the professor keeps speaking. Even when the professor asks something to the students, nobody answers unless the professor calls his or her name. And even if the professor points at someone and calls a name, sometimes the person just says, I dont know, because they do not have much confidence about whether the answer is true or reasonable and they are afraid of making mistakes. In contrast, in the USA, students attending a class often talk to the professor during the lecture whenever they have a question or they have an opinion. So, a professor in the USA sometimes has to stop the lecture to talk about or explain the thing asked by a student even during the lecture. When the professor asks something to the students, someone answers the question voluntarily, and someone else would answer the question if his or her answer is different from t