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Reading newspapers has becoming an important p______1 of our everyday life. Many people read newspapers a______2 the first thing to do in the morning, others read newspapers as soon as they are free during the day so that they can learn what is h______3 in the world.

Sometimes, however, we do not have e______4 time to read all the news carefully, so we just take a quick look at the front page, at other times, we may be in such a h______5 that we only have a few minutes to look at the names of the passages.

Newspapers can be found everywhere in the world. We can get many different kinds of newspapers in the big cities, of course, but in some of the mountain v______6 we can see few newspapers.

Some newspapers are published o______7 a week, but most of the newspapers are published once a day with many pages, some even published twice a day! As you know different people e______8 reading different newspapers, some like sports news, some like economic news and others prefer short stories. They just choose what they are i______ 9 in.

Today newspapers in English have the l______ 10 number of readers in the world.

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 — looking 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). H e got the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1957. Chinese people love him. But he is an American citizen.

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

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

3.He underlined word “blood” may probably mean__________.

A．国籍             B．血统             C．爱心             D．皮肤

4.N.Yang is mentioned (提到) here to show that ____________

A．American Chinese are great.

B．We love American Chinese.

C．Chinese people can win Nobel Prizes.

D．American-Chinese are not Chinese citizens.

5.This passage mainly talks about _____.

A. different kinds of bananas

B. overseas Chinese

C. the Nobel Prize

D. the life story of C.N. Yang