In the late summer of 2004，days before I was to move to a city in China，to teach English for a year，I spoke to an acquaintance who had spent a few years in the country．
“Holidays are hard，”he said．“But strangely，not so much Christmas．Christmas isn’t that bad．It’s Thanksgiving that’s hard．”
At the time，surviving the holidays was the least of my worries．I was moving to a country where I didn’t speak the language，understand the culture，or know the history，in order to do a job that I had never done and didn’t know how to do．And not only that，I was going to a city that I hadn’t even heard of，and could find no information about online．Other than that，I was completely equipped．
Within a couple of months，the euphoria of being in China had worn off，and I found myself settling into a routine．I taught two hour-long classes of 15and 16-year-olds，and，because I assigned no homework and rarely gave out tests，spent the afternoons either reading or making a halfhearted attempt to learn Chinese．
When Thanksgiving came around，I decided it’d be easiest if I just ignored it．In China，this isn’t difficult； unlike Christmas，which many Chinese people cerebrate with decorations，music，and festivities，Thanksgiving slips past unnoticed-it’s just another Thursday．
And so it was．As I sat on my sofa，however，watching another film from the James Bond box set I bought for 12 dollars at a local shop，I felt a sense of shame．What was I doing？It was Thanksgiving，damn it．I needed to have a proper Thanksgiving dinner．
There was only one problem．As in most small Chinese cities，there’s no turkey，or cranberry sauce，or stuffing，yams，pumpkin pie，or anything else．In fact，in the entire city of 700，000 people，there was exactly one restaurant whose food even resembled，at a distance，Thanksgiving fare．
Kentucky Fried Chicken．And so that’s where I headed．

26．Before beginning his teaching in a Chinese city，the writer    ．
A．made few preparations
B．little expected the hardships 
C．turned to one friend for information
D．was full of curiosity
27．The underlined word“euphoria”in the 3rd paragraph probably means    ．
A．pleasure．
B．worries．
C．satisfaction．
D．hope
28．From the passage we can know that the writer usually spent a day by    ．
A．watching films from the James Bond box
B．learning Chinese with passion in the afternoons
C．giving two-hour lessons for teenagers
D．occasionally marking the students’homework
29．KFC became the writer’s final choice on Thanksgiving Day because    ．
A．its food was a bit similar to Thanksgiving dish
B．its atmosphere was suitable for foreigners in China
C．Western holidays were less attractive to Chinese
D．Turkey or related food was not available in China
30．The purpose of the passage is    
A．to explain a foreigner’s dull work experience           
B．to describe a foreigner’s lonely Thanksgiving Day
C．to prove a foreigner’s wrong cultural concept
D．to present some hard problems for a foreigner．

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