Many Chinese students studying abroad (出国留学) like to stay with host families (寄宿家庭) to learn their 1 36       and culture. These days many Shanghai workers have received Englishspeaking international students as their host f 37        too in order to learn English from them.

It is usually f 38       for a foreign student to stay in a host family in Shanghai but he or she has to teach English to at least some members of the family. Miss Li has always w 39      about her poor English. " I never knew what to say to an Englishspeaking person " said she. She has taken a number of English courses but none seemed to be useful. Last year she saw an advertisement a 40       for host families for foreign students and that was how Carey came to her home. She stays in Li's apartment for free but has to teach Li s 41       English for 1  hour every day. " She could hardly speak Chinese at the b 42        and we had to guess what each other meant through gestures (手势) ”，said Ii.

Two months 1 43       they could talk to each other. Now Li can c 44       with any Englishspeaking person. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding s 45        and the number is rising (上升) .However foreign boarding students can only help improved spoken English but not examination skills.

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