It was the first time Moham went to a restaurant in his new neighborhood. He looked up at the menu board, and 1 how he could understand what all of these strange names meant. Moham decided that be would 2 ask the waitress for ice cream in a cup. She smiled brightly, wrote down his 3 and disappeared behind the big glass display case (陈列柜).
A moment later, she came back with a tall paper cup, 4 it was a long straw (吸管) and some kind of drink. Moham, quite 5 took the cup and thanked her, thinking about the possibility that be had used wrong words.
"It's the soda you ordered, " 6 said, "an ice cream drink in a cup. "
He smiled at the waitress, pointed at one of the 7 in the display case, and said, "That one, please, " which seemed to 8 better.
Moham took the cake and his unexpected soda to a table and sat down to eat. Why was it that English had been so 9 for him in his classes in Tunisia, but when it came to 10 speaking, he couldn't even get what he wanted to eat?
Just then, a girl, who sat at the next table and had watched the whole 11, smiled at him and said, "Hey, welcome to our beautiful city! Don't feel 12 about your English-you'll get better at it 13 you've lived here for a while. I'm from Spain, and the first time I tried to order a salad here, I 14 with a plate of pig's feet. At least you got a soda!"
Hearing this, Moham felt much better. He wasn't the only one 15 to communicate, and his new city began to feel just a little more like he could call it home.
