1 My mother is a geneticist, and from her I learned that despite our differences

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Mymother is a geneticist, and from her I learned that despite our differences insize, 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   ushuman, we are almost the   38  .

Ibelieve there is more that unites us than   39   us.

Mymother came to the US from India. She is   40   enoughthat she got her service  41  in a diner in 1960s Dallas. My father is a white boy from Indiana whose   42   camefrom Germany in the mid-1800s.

 Itseems   43   to admit now, but I never   44  that my parents were different colors. One day, I watched my parentswalk   45   the street of our church together. Theywere   46   in the service that day, and as theywalked, I saw their hands   47   together in unison(一致地). I noticed forthe first time how dark my mother was, and how white my father was. I knew themas 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 andthe "couple" second.

Whenmy parents married in 1966, there were   50   placesin this country that had laws  51   mixed marriage.   52 , my white grandfather,   53   father had been atypical racist, was not against their marriage.

Someof us are men, some are women. Some are young, some old. Some of us are short andothers   54  . Some right-handed, some left-handed. Wehave lots of differences; we are all   55  . But deepdown inside us, down in our DNA, we are 99.9 percent the same. And I believe weneed to remember that.

1.A.feature                               B. character                    C.nature                       D.quality

2.A.gets                                 B.lets                                     C.has                           D.makes

3.A.same                               B.different                     C.familiar                    D.similar

4.A. differs                          B.divides                             C.departs            D.splits

5.A.yellow                          B.white                      C.dark                      D.brown

6.A.turned out                B.turned down             C.turned over               D.turned back

7.A.ancestors                       B.parents                             C.family                     D.origin

8.A. silly                                 B.wise                         C.stupid                    D.foolish

9.A.noticed                         B.looked                             C.watched                  D.observed

10.A. in                                           B.up                                    C.out                          D.down

11.A.entering                        B.running                            C.attending                D.participating

12.A.rocking                       B.shaking                           C.swinging    D. waving

13.A.unless                        B.after                               C.before                    D.until

14.A. marriage                             B.couple                             C.double                  D.twins

15.A.always                              B.also                              C.almost                  D.still

16.A. allowing                     B.preventing                         C.encouraging   D. banning

17.A.Therefore                     B.However                           C.But                           D.Otherwise

18.A.which                         B.whose                             C.that                      D.what

19.A. long                    B.high               C.tall           D. kind

20.A.similar                        B.familiar                C.unique                   D.same

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1.C

2.D

3.A

4.B

5.C

6.B

7.A

8.A

9.A

10.D

11.D

12.C

13.C

14.B

15.D

16.D

17.B

18.B

19.C

20.C

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