It turned out that he was welcomed by the monks but had to pay the “foreigner tuition price”of $1,300 per month,which forced him to sell T-shirts to make money.“I visited the temple again in 2003,”he says.“Tourism has changed it,obviously.And there are more kung fu schools teaching foreigners,”he says,adding that people are much better off and clearly had no problem finding enough to eat,as was the case previously.

　　“Foreign people coming to China is a timeless adventure,”Tom Carter,editor of Unsavory Elements,told me.“There are certain things that foreigners in China will always be interested in.And as we wrote in the introduction to the book,in China,the more things change,the more they stay the same.So learning kung fu at Shaolin,it’s more touristy now.But if you want to learn,you still have to hike up Songshan Mountain and find a kung fu school,just like Matthew Polly’s experience two decades ago.That is just one of the features that are still timeless in China.”

　　【语篇导读】本文是记叙文。作者参加首都北京文学节,原以为会议很枯燥,都会是些中国的老者参加,没想到来的大多是外国人。他们对中国的文化颇有感触,比如少林寺的武术等。而且少林寺的僧人以前对外国人也存在误解。

　　31The author initially thought those organisers would be 　. 

　　A.foreign visitors B.Chinese natives

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