Teste Ingles Read the text and answer the questions. LIVING IN AMERICA There are two letters written by Thai teenagers living abroad with their parents. The first letter is from a 15-year-old girl, Ploy, who was born in America, and the second is from 17-year-old Khanittha, who has been living in America with her family since she was six years old All my life | have compared Thailand to America. My conclusion is that | prefer America. Now don't get me wrong, I'm very proud to be That but I can't say that I love Thailand. It's a wonderful place to visit but nat to live in. | could stand a couple of years of living there but | couldn't live my whole life there. Yes, the people are nice and wonderful but it seems to me that they aren't very open to change. The younger people | know are bright and wonderful and they accepted me most of the time. It’s the older people that got to me. Like when | wore my everyday clothes to Thalland. | could see people staring at me and talking behind my back. | felt so alien there sometimes, like I'm the odd one out. Yet even with all these faults, I can't deny my love for the people of Thailand. At heart, they are good people. Life is always changing and Thai people are making great leaps ahead Whether it be changes in social or political life. Sometimes | do miss Thailand, Maybe it could be a paradise in the future for me. I'lljust have to see as | grow up. Here in America, you can have anything you want, but | don't have any Thai friends m around here. Sometimes | get lonely. | would like to have a friend who shares cultural background and likes in music and stuff. The eleven years that | have been here, | tried so hard not to forget the Thai language. | can speak, read, and write Thai, but sometimes I don't understand it. During my free time | like to chat on the Internet with Thai people. I's very good that a lot of Thai people know English and can understand me. I'm so proud of that. Next year, | will go to a university in Thailand, Many people questioned me about why | want to study there when | can study here in America. | know I'm not like anyone else in Thailand who tries so hard to come and study in America. My answer to them is that | don't think colleges in Thailand are worse than any other colleges in the world. | think | have been in ‘America long enough and every time | go back to Thailand, | feel closer to it. The place you should go to is the place where your heart wants to be.d synonyms for the following words /expressions in the first letter. . could tolerate different, not fitting deep down |. heaven popes . Say who or what the following words refer to. Who (line 3) ). my (line 5) here (line 27) ogaN 3. Are the following statements TRUE, FALSE? Find evidence in the text to support your answers. a. Ploy thinks Americans are more conservative than Thai people b. Thailand is developing very fast. c. Khanittha feels totally fulfilled in America 4, Answer the questions on the text using your own words. a. According to Ploy, what distinguishes the Thai and the American people? b. What do you think about the last sentence of the text?A. Complete the text with the words/expressions in the box. There are two extra words. backgrounds, traditions, racial, progressive, multicultural, community, sensitive, melting pot, identity, odd, ethnically, beliefs London is one of the most a. diverse cities in the world with foreigners constituting about a third of its nine million inhabitants. Living in a city with people from different ethnic and b. and economic c. , one needs to be aware of and d. to the cultural differences to navigate and maintain healthy relations with neighbors, classmates or coworkers. e population in London represents a modern cosmopolitan city- a f. dynamic and tolerant space where everyone can express themselves (as long as its legal). Although London is full of strangers, you never really feel like a stranger. There's an g comfort in knowing that you're not the only one who's new to the city and even though we are all different, we're all the same. Living in a city that can best be described as he of cultures has great influence on the construction of i. you won't be the same person after living in London for a few months or years. There are many stimuli that will challenge your values, you j. your mindset. B, Complete the sentences with the correct form of the verb in brackets. 1. When | got to the restaurant my friends already (leave). 2. (you/ do) anything interesting at the moment? 3. always {try) to meet people from other cultures.