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_____.
| 小题1: | | A．almost | B．mostly | C．merely | D．particularly |
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| 小题2: | | A．social | B．local | C．positive | D．new |
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| 小题3: | | A．danger | B．treasure | C．gift | D．neighbor |
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| 小题4: | | A．better | B．close | C．perfect | D．superior |
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| 小题5: | | A．fear | B．interest | C．honor | D．despair |
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| 小题7: | | A．known | B．developed | C．raised | D．located |
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| 小题8: | | A．honestly | B．constantly | C．hopefully | D．freely |
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| 小题9: | | A．changed | B．formed | C．strengthened | D．increased |
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| 小题10: | | A．kill | B．rob | C．damage | D．steal |
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| 小题11: | | A．actions | B．deeds | C．signs | D．words |
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| 小题12: | | A．writing | B．printing | C．telling | D．saying |
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| 小题13: | | A．fearful | B．doubtful | C．pitiful | D．impressive |
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| 小题14: | | A．strongly | B．actively | C．disappointedly | D．casually |
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| 小题15: | | A．sincere | B．mature | C．welcome | D．gentle |
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