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     There was a gardener who looked after his garden with great care.To water his flowers,he used
two buckets.One was a shiny and new bucket.The other was a very old and dilapidated one,which
 had seen many years of service,but was now past its best.
     Every morning,the gardener would fill up the two buckets.Then he would carry them along the
path,one on each side,to the flowerbeds.The new bucket was very proud of itself.It could carry a full
bucket of water without a single drop spilled (溢出)．The old bucket felt very ashamed because of
its holes:before it reached the flowerbeds,much water had leaked along the path.
     Sometimes the new bucket would say,"See how capable I am!How good it is that the gardener
has me to water the flowers every day!I don't know why he still bothers with you.What a waste of
space you are!"
     And all that the old bucket could say was,"I know I'm not very useful,but I can only do my best.
I'm happy that the gardener still finds  a little bit of use in me,at least."
     One day,the gardener heard that kind of conversation.After watering the flowers as usual,he said,
"You both have done your work very well.Now I am going to carry you back.I want you to look
carefully along the path."
     Then the two buckets did so.All along the path,they noticed,on the side where the new bucket was
carried,there was just bare(光禿禿的) earth；on the other side where the old bucket was carried,
there was a joyous row of wild flowers,leading all the way to the garden.

     A Japanese student called Mami told me about her ownexperiences in Britain.She spent 10 months
in the UK last year, studying English at a language school.She really enjoyed her first two weeks in the
UK.But soon she started to miss things of her own country.She found it hard to make friends,and got
annoyed(惱火的) about local people's behaviour.Mami said,"After a few weeks I started to cry a lot.
I felt homesick.I thought the weather was dark and too changeable,and that affected my mood as well."
    To comfort herself Mami began to spend many hours on the Internet chatting with her friends back
home.She spent a couple of weeks in the countryside in Kent.She went to a social club for British
people who were interested in Japan and started to make some friends there.In addition,  she took a
short course in calligraphy(書法)to get an opportunity of mixing with local people.A few months later,
Mami's impression of the UK had greatly changed.She found that most of the British were friendly,
witty and fun.
      However,once Mami was back in Japan,she experienced "culture shock"again.She said,"I missed
the friends I had made in England.My way of thinking had changed.Sometimes I was annoyed by the
views of people in my country-for example,about the value of money and time.I thought people around
me lived in such a small world."Mami noticed some changes in her behaviour:"I kept the habit of always
carrying an umbrella with me, even on a fine day-my friends  thought I was crazy!"

1. How did Mami feel at the beginning of her stay in Britain?
A. Shocked.  
B. Annoyed.
C. Pleased.  
D. Homesick.

2. The second paragraph tells us ________.
A. how Mami overcame culture shock in Britain
B. how Mami felt as soon as she arrived in Britain
C. what Mami learned in her language school
D. what Mami liked and disliked about Britain

3. The reason why Mami had the habit of carrying an umbrella was that ________.
A. she liked umbrellas very much
B. the umbrella reminded her of her life in the UK
C. she had got used to the changeable weather in Britain
D. it often rained in Japan those days

4. Why did Mami experience culture shock in Japan?
A. She didn't like Japanese culture any more.
B. The world in Japan was too small for her.
C. The Japanese behaviour had changed a lot.
D. She had got used to British culture and life.