A. Home Depot. B. Pottery Barn Kids. C. Michaels. D. Lego Stores.

23. Lego Stores allow kids to ______.

　　A. keep the kits used for the model B. complete after-class tasks at home

C. decide how long each class will last D. return the model within the required time

　　When my family moved to the United States from Colombia, I was 9 years old and knew little about English. As time passed, teachers finally knew all of their students and slowly everyone began to head inside, except for me. No one called out my name, and no one seemed to know I existed. I spent the next month in my new classroom quietly. I felt a wave of fear, loneliness and sadness came over me.

It turned out the school administration never cared that I didn't speak English, but something else was teaching me English. Every morning when my aunt drove me to school and picked me up, she always had 106.7 Light FM on. It was this station that introduced my young ears to the English sounds of R&B, soul, jazz and much more.

Because of Sabrina the Teenage Witch, I learned the difference between "witch" and "which". While watching the TV show South Park, I was attracted by the funny characters. I related "You bastards!" to anger and saved it in my mental word bank. In fact, thanks to pop culture, the world of English became readily available to me while it was being turned down at school.

I also learned how to express my emotions thanks to pop culture. One day at school, we were taking a math quiz and the whole class was quiet. Suddenly, the tip of my pencil broke and I yelled, "You bastards!" Everyone held their breath in surprise and I laughed to myself because something at that moment told me I had just learned my first bad word in English.

Four months passed before the school placed me into an ESL program. By this time, I was speaking broken English and making myself understood. Finally, I learned how to speak and write English at a more advanced level, and I owe it all to pop culture.

24. Why did the author feel sad when she moved to the US?

A. She missed her hometown. B. She was ignored at school

C. She was blamed for poor grades. D. She hated learning a new language.

25. How did the author first learn English?

A. By talking with her aunt. B. By working in radio stations.

C. By listening to English songs. D. By making friends with her classmates.