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请先阅读下面短文，掌握其大意，然后用方框所给的词的适当形式填空，并将答案填写到答题卷的相应位置，每词限用一次。

You work hard to learn English . Do you know American kids are __1.____ to learn Chinese? About 50,000 American students now_2._____ Chinese .“Because of china’s fast growth, Chinese is more useful than __3.____ languages,” said Scott McGinnis, a Washington___4.___ expert.

For example, in 1999, ___5.___ three Chicago schools had Chinese classes. This year more than 20 do. In many US____6.__ , students take Chinese lessons at school or on the weekends. But Chicago schools teach Chinese during the__7.____ day. Last year China gave them3,000 textbooks because they had ___8.___ a good job.

___9.___ Chinese classes are becoming popular, it is one of the most difficult languages. It ____10.__an English speaker about 1,320 hours to become good at Chinese , but it only takes 480 hours to learn French, Spanish or Italian.

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