YoumayknowtheEnglishlettersABandC.ButdoyouknowtherearepeoplecalledABC?Youmaylikeeatingbananas.Butdoyouknowthereissuchathinga“bananaperson”?Howstrange!Arethesepeoplefrom“anotherearth”?Not

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 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 don’t speak Chinese. Also they are not interested in Chinese politics.
But if ABCs can not speak Chinese can we still call them Chinese people? Yes of course. They are Chinese. They are overseas Chinese. These people may be citizens (公民) of another country like the US Canada or Singapore. But they have Chinese blood . 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. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.
小题1:“ABC” in this passage means “       ”.

A．three English letters	B．a kind of banana
C．Chinese born in America	D．Americans born in China

小题2:Chinese in Western countries are called “banana persons” because        .

A．their bodies are white inside but yellow outside

B．they think like Westerners but look like Chinese

C．they were born in China but got to study in America

D．they like to eat bananas

小题3:The underlined word “blood” may probably mean        .

A．国籍

B．血统

C．爱心

D．皮肤

小题4:This passage mainly talks about ______.
A. different kind of bananas                B. the life story of C.N.Yang
C. the Noble Prize                      D. overseas Chinese

Answer 1

小题1:C小题2:B小题3:B小题4:D小题1:细节理解题，由文中语句“ABC means American-born Chinese. An ABC is a Chinese but was born in the United States.”可知。小题2:细节理解题，由文中语句“when a person is a banana he or she is white inside-thinking like a Westerner and yellow outside-looking like a Chinese.”可知。小题3:词义推断题，由文中语句“Their parents grandparents or even great-grandparents were from China. They all have black eyes and black hair.”推断理解可知。小题4:推断理解题，纵观全文内容理解可知。