Wherever in the world you’re reading this right now, you will be aware of just how mixed modern society has become in terms of race. Within the UK, mixed-raced children are the largest
1 ethnic minority. Bringing home a partner of a different
2 to yourself is no longer viewed as, “strange” or “different” in a lot of families. When Joseph brought home Hari, the
3 that she was of Indian parentage was never even talked about — she made him happy. They made each other happy. And that was all that
4 .
But the reason why they were together for 11 years before they got
5 is that Hari was afraid of telling her
6 about the person that she’d fallen in love with. She was afraid of the consequences it would
7 for her younger sisters. Would they be packed off to India? Would they end up in arranged
8 they may not want? At 22 years old, when she first fell in love with him — it was a large burden to
9 .
But she loved him, and
10 they moved in together… and then bought a house by the Brighton coast, where they have
11 for almost 8 years. All the while her parents didn’t know. Her sisters did, and they too loved Joseph — they
12 him as the brother they’d never had.
But after nine years together, she finally had to tell her father (her mother
13 away a few years ago). We were on tenderhooks（惶恐不安）the weekend she went up North to tell him.
It was emotional and as a family we were worried. Hari had been
14 of our family for so long, we felt for her. We knew how
15 it would be. She loved her father, but knew this would hurt him, who was a very traditional Sikh man.
| 小题1: | | A．growing | B．slowing | C．reducing | D．ageing |
|
| 小题2: | | A．sex | B．race | C．citizenship | D．nationality |
|
| 小题3: | | A．fact | B．idea | C．statement | D．news |
|
| 小题4: | | A．worked | B．meant | C．existed | D．mattered |
|
| 小题5: | | A．reunited | B．accepted | C．married | D．divorced |
|
| 小题6: | | A．family | B．parents | C．classmates | D．friends |
|
| 小题7: | | A．bear | B．have | C．make | D．receive |
|
| 小题8: | | A．reunions | B．gatherings | C．marriages | D．parties |
|
| 小题9: | | A．hold | B．bring | C．take | D．carry |
|
| 小题10: | | A．eventually | B．generally | C．possibly | D．faithfully |
|
| 小题11: | | A．lived | B．worked | C．studied | D．dated |
|
| 小题12: | | A．found | B．thought | C．belived | D．saw |
|
| 小题13: | | A．went | B．ran | C．passed | D．fled |
|
| 小题14: | | A．member | B．part | C．fun | D．role |
|
| 小题15: | | A．easy | B．close | C．hard | D．awful |
|