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Many Chinese students studying abroad like to stay with host families to learn their language and culture. Nowadays, many Shanghai white-collar workers have received native English-speaking international students as their host families, too, in order to learn English from them.

It is usually free for foreign students to stay in a host family in Shanghai, but he/she must take up the   36   (responsible) of teaching English to at least one certain member of the family. Miss Li has always worried about her   37   (limit) English. “I never knew what to say to an English-speaking person,” she said. She has taken a number of English courses, but none has proved to be   38 (use). Last year, she saw an   39 (advertise) recruiting (徵募) host families for foreign students, and that was  40  Carey (from Chicago, US) came to her home. Carey is actually not a student, but a manager. She stays in Li’s apartment for free,   41   she has to teach Li oral English for one hour every day. “She could hardly speak Chinese at the beginning, and we had to guess 　42　 each other meant through gestures,” said Li.

Two months later, they could talk to each other   43   gesticulating (做手勢). Now, Li can communicate with any English-speaking person freely. About one hundred Shanghai families have received foreign boarding students and the figure   44   (rise). However, foreign boarding students can only  help  45  (improve) oral English, but not examination skills.

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