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

缺词填空  (本大题共5分，每格0.5分)

Every child has his own dream. Every child h      to be an adult. However, is it truly like what they imagine? A     a boy who lives in modern times and in a modern city, I feel greater pressure(压力) on me with the city’s development. Although we s        worry about money, we still have a lot of things such as competition among classmates and expectations from parents. These experiences are very helpful to our f      . But in fact they really give me a lot of pressure. I still clearly remembered the happiness of my childhood. Unluckily, we had to f        the reality ( 现实) with time passing by. We began to feel this invisible(无形的) pressure a        us. We get up sunrise and return after sunset. We work and study like an adult, e        harder. What we do is to g        an excellent mark. Oh, g        up is completely boring. We must try to find happiness while growing up. I think the friendship among our friends, the support from our p       , the encouragement among our teachers can help us. Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up.

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.
【小题1】“ABC” in this passage means “____________”.

Every child has his own dream. Every child h  1    to be an adult. However, is it truly like what they imagine? A 2  a boy who lives in modern times and in a modern city, I feel greater pressure(压力) on me with the city’s development. Although we s   3   worry about money, we still have a lot of things such as competition among classmates and expectations from parents. These experiences are very helpful to our f   4  . But in fact they really give me a lot of pressure. I still clearly remembered the happiness of my childhood. Unluckily, we had to f   5    the reality ( 现实) with time passing by. We began to feel this invisible(无形的) pressure a  6    us. We get up sunrise and return after s   7   . We work and study like an adult, even h  8  . What we do is to get an excellent mark. Oh, g   9    up is completely boring. We must try to find happiness while growing up. I think the friendship among our friends, the s   10   from our parents, the encourgement among our teachers can help us. Why not enjoy the pleasure of growing up.