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Question

You may know the English letters A B and C. But do you know there are people called ABC? You may like eating bananas. But do you know there is such a thing as a “banana person”? How strange! Are these people from “another earth”? No. They are just Chinese people like you and me.

ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese but was born in the United States. Sometimes people call an ABC a “banana person”. A banana is yellow outside and white inside. So when a person is a banana he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese. Do you know why? Usually ABCs know little about China or the Chinese language. Some of them do not speak Chinese. Also they are not interested in Chinese politics.

But if ABCs cannot speak Chinese can we still call them Chinese people? Yes of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas-Chinese. 3 These people may be citizens( 公民 ) of another country like the U.S. England or Canada but they have Chinese blood( 血统 ). Their parents grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair. But they are not Chinese citizens. They are not people of the People’s Republic of China. For example we all know the famous scientist C. N. Yang( 杨振宁 ). He got the Nobel Prize for physics in 1957. 4 Chinese people love him although he is an American citizen.

根据短文内容回答下列问题。

1. What does “ABC” mean in this passage?

                                                                   

2 Why Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons”?

                                                                   

将短文中划线的句子译成汉语。

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4                                                                 

   请给短文拟一个适当的标题。

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Answer 1

1 American-born Chinese.  /  Chinese who was born in America. 

2 Because they are white inside and/ but yellow outside.

   Because they have yellow skin but think like a westerner.

   Because they think like a Westerner but look like a Chinese.

    Because they are white inside thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside thinking like a Chinese.

3 这些人有可能是另一个国家的公民，如美国、英国或加拿大的公民，但他们具有中国血统。

4 中国人喜欢 / 热爱他，尽管他是一个美国公民。

5  What is an ABC;/ What does ABC mean?/ Overseas Chinese.