Long ago, in a far-away place, an old tribal chief found himself terminally ill. So he called three most promising young villagers to his bedside and said, “As I ____1.____(leave) you soon, I hope you can do one more thing for me. Young men, you three are all ____2.____(usual) strong and resourceful, so I’d like you to strive to climb that high mountain we have always been worshipping _____3._____ a sacred place. Try to reach the top and then turn back to tell me about your findings.
Three days later, the first young man returned smartly dressed and said ___4.____(smile),
“Lord, I’ve been to the mountaintop____5.____I saw flowers of all sorts, spring water and singing birds. That’s a real nice place.”
The old tribal chief replied with a smile, “Son, I’ve been there before. it's not the mountaintop ____6.____the foot of the mountain. You can leave now.”
A week later, the second young man also returned. “Lord, I’ve been to the mountaintop ___7.___ a forest of tall pine trees and vultures circling in the air. That’s a really nice place.”
“What a pity!” said the chief. “Son, you’ve been halfway up the mountain rather than to the summit. Now you can leave .”
A month later, the third young man showed up in rags, his hair off-colored but his eyes clear and bright.
“Lord, I succeeded in reaching the summit. There was nothing there but the highland wind and the blue sky ___8.___(hang) over the land.”
“So you saw nothing at all? Not even ___9.___butterfly?”
“No, Lord, nothing. All you can see is yourself. You just feel how insignificant you are in this infinite universe ___10.__ standing at the top!”
“Son, you’ve reached the real mountaintop. Congratulations! You will be undoubtedly made our new tribal chief!”
When I walk through the streets of San Francisco’s business districts, white people stare at me as if I were a circus clown.
Their staring eyes don’t see that I get ____1____ A’s in school, or that I am a captain of the football team, or that I belong to ___2____youth organizations. All they see is that I am 6-foot-4, young ,black, and male-----a potential ____3____to them.
White men look at me as if I am up to no good, or as if they are ____4____to me. White women just look at me with____5____, say, sometimes they cross the street when they see my friends and me coming, or walk in the street and only get back on the sidewalk after we ____6____.
Many people come to San Francisco to get away from the stereotypes(成见) of the cities they were born and ____7_____ in. The majority of the blacks and Latinos who live in this city don’t have that luxury.
How can you feel at home when people are_____8_____telling you to get back to Africa or Mexico ----or just back to “where you belong”?
My way of dealing with this kind of thing has _____9_____over the years. In the past, when my friends and I would walk the streets and a hundred pairs of white eyes would look at me as if we were the lowest form of dirt, it would make us angry enough to hurt or ____10____them.
Now I’m more likely to use ____11____ to defend myself against those eyes. To women who clutch their purse in terror, I’ll say, “Man, I ain’t gonna do anything to you, I got money in my pocket!” My cousin has even started wearing a T-shirt ____12_____ in big letters, “NO, WHITE LADY, I DON'T’ WANT YOUR PURSE.”
The most painful thing is when we get those___13____ stares from black people, especially elderly ones. I want o say to them, “We’re black too. Why would we do something to you?”
Usually I react more ____14____to all of this than a lot of my friends do. Some of them, so brainwashed, just think it’s part of life and that there is nothing you can do.
But for me, that’s not good enough. I just can’t stand it when every day a hundred pair of eyes tell you you’re not_____15_____.
1.A. almost B. mostly C. merely D. particularly
2.A. social B. local C. positive D. new
3.A. danger B. treasure C. gift D. neighbor
4.A. better B. close C. perfect D. superior
5.A. fear B. interest C. honor D. despair
6.A. run B. walk C. pass D. move
7.A. known B. developed C. raised D. located
8.A. honestly B. constantly C. hopefully D. freely
9.A. changed B. formed C. strengthened D. increased
10.A. kill B. rob C. damage D. steal
11.A. actions B. deeds C. signs D. words
12.A. writing B. printing C. telling D. saying
13.A. fearful B. doubtful C. pitiful D. impressive
14.A. strongly B. actively C. disappointedly D. casually
15.A. sincere B. mature C. welcome D. gentle
Just as the doctor _________, your wife is not exactly fat, but rather well-built for her age.
A. gets it B. makes it C. means it D. puts it
,the more quickly he will learn a foreign language.
A. The stronger motivation will a person have
B. The stronger motivation has a person
C. The stronger motivation a person will have
D. The stronger motivation a person has
－Do you mind if I keep pets in this building?
—_________.
A. I’d rather you didn’t actually B. Of course not, it’s not allowed here
C. Great! I love pets D. No, you can’t
Once you are in a new culture, you need to _____yourself for a time, before you ______it
A. fit; get used to B. suit; used to
C. adjust; get used to D. correct; used to
