My mother is a geneticist, and from her I learned that despite our differences in size, shape and color, we humans are 99.9 percent the same. It is in our
36 to see differences: skin, hair and eye color, height, language. But also in our nature, way down in the DNA that
37 us human, we are almost the
38 .
I believe there is more that unites us than
39 us.
My mother came to the US from India. She is
40 enough that she got her service
41 in a diner in 1960s Dallas. My father is a white boy from Indiana whose
42 came from Germany in the mid-1800s.
It seems
43 to admit now, but I never
44 that my parents were different colors. One day, I watched my parents walk
45 the street of our church together. They were
46 in the service that day, and as they walked, I saw their hands
47 together in unison(一致地). I noticed for the first time how dark my mother was, and how white my father was. I knew them as my parents
48 I realized their skin color. I'm sorry to say that now when I see a mixed-race
49 walking down the street, I see the "mixed race" first and the "couple" second.
When my parents married in 1966, there were
50 places in this country that had laws
51 mixed marriage.
52 , my white grandfather,
53 father had been a typical racist, was not against their marriage.
Some of us are men, some are women. Some are young, some old. Some of us are short and others
54 . Some right-handed, some left-handed. We have lots of differences; we are all
55 . But deep down inside us, down in our DNA, we are 99.9 percent the same. And I believe we need to remember that.
小題1: | A.feature | B.character | C.nature | D.quality |
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小題3: | A.same | B.different | C.familiar | D.similar |
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小題4: | A.differs | B.divides | C.departs | D.splits |
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小題5: | A.yellow | B.white | C.dark | D.brown |
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小題6: | A.turned out | B.turned down | C.turned over | D.turned back |
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小題7: | A.a(chǎn)ncestors | B.parents | C.family | D.origin |
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小題8: | A.silly | B.wise | C.stupid | D.foolish |
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小題9: | A.noticed | B.looked | C.watched | D.observed |
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小題11: | A.entering | B.running | C.a(chǎn)ttending | D.participating |
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小題12: | A.rocking | B.shaking | C.swinging | D.waving |
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小題13: | A.unless | B.a(chǎn)fter | C.before | D.until |
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小題14: | A.marriage | B.couple | C.double | D.twins |
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小題15: | A.a(chǎn)lways | B.a(chǎn)lso | C.a(chǎn)lmost | D.still |
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小題16: | A.a(chǎn)llowing | B.preventing | C.encouraging | D.banning |
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小題17: | A.Therefore | B.However | C.But | D.Otherwise |
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小題18: | A.which | B.whose | C.that | D.what |
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小題20: | A.similar | B.familiar | C.unique | D.same |
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