2024级大学英语一

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When Berenice Belizaire arrived in New York from Haiti with her mother and sister in 1987, she was not very happy. She spoke no English. The family had to live in a small and crowded Brooklyn apartment, a far cry from the comfortable house they' d had in Haiti. Her mother, a nurse, worked long hours. School was torture(折磨). Berenice had always been a good student, but now she was learning a new language while enduring constant taunts from the Americans. They cursed(咒骂) her in the cafeteria and threw food at her. Someone hit her sister in the head with a book. "Why can' t we go home?" Berenice asked her mother. Because home was dangerous. The schools weren' t always open anymore, and education --- her mother insisted ---was the most important thing. Her mother had always pushed her: memorize everything, she ordered. "I have a pretty good memory," Berenice admitted last week. Indeed, the other kids at school began to notice that Berenice always, somehow, knew the answers. "They started coming to me for help," she says. "They never called me a nerd(书呆子) Within two years Berenice was speaking English, though not well enough to get into one of New York' s elite(精英的)public high school. She had to settle for a neighborhood school, James Madison, a school with a history of unlikely success stories. "I didn' t realize what we had in Berenice at first," says math teacher Judith Khan. "She was good at math, but she was quiet. And the things she didn' t know! She applied for a summer program in Buffalo and asked me how to get there on the subway. But she always seemed to ask the right questions. She understood the big ideas. She could think on her feet. She could explain difficult problems so the other kids could understand them. Eventually I realized she wasn' t just pushing for grades, she was hungry for knowledge...And you know it never occurred to me that she【缺少答案,请补充】