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1、Growing Up ColoredA You wouldnt know Piedmont anymoremy Piedmont, I meanthe town in West Virginia where I learned to be a colored boy.B The 1950s in Piedmont was a time to remember, or at least to me. People were always proud to be from Piedmontlying at the foot of a mountain, on the banks of the mi
2、ghty Potomac. We knew God gave America no more beautiful location. I never knew colored people anywhere who were crazier about mountains and water, flowers and trees, fishing and hunting. For as long as anyone could remember, we could outhunt, outshoot, and outswim the white boys in the valley.C The
3、 social structure of Piedmont was something we knew like the back of our hands. It was an immigrant town; white Piedmont was Italian and Irish, with a handful of wealthy WASPs (盎格鲁撒克逊裔旳白人新教徒) on East Hampshire Street, and ethnic neighborhoods of working-class people everywhere else, colored and whit
4、e.D For as long as anyone can remember, Piedmonts character has been completely bound up with the Westvaco paper mill: its prosperous past and doubtful future. At first glance, the town is a typical dying mill center. Many once beautiful buildings stand empty, evidencing a bygone time of spirit and
5、pride. The big houses on East Hampshire Street are no longer proud, as they were when I E Like the Italians and the Irish, most of the colored people migrated to Piedmont at the turn of the 20th century to work at the paper mill, which opened in 1888. All the colored men at the paper mill worked on
6、the platformloading paper into trucks until the craft unions were finally integrated in 1968. Loading is what Daddy did every working day of his life. Thats what almost every colored grown-up I knew did.F Colored people lived in three neighborhoods that were clearly separated. Welcome to the Colored
7、 Zone, a large stretched banner could have said. And it felt good in there, like walking around your house in bare feet and underwear, or snoring right out loud on the couch in front of the TVenveloped by the comforts of home, the warmth of those you love.G Of course, the colored world was not so mu
8、ch a neighborhood as a condition of existence. And though our own world was seemingly self-contained, it impacted on the white world of Piedmont in almost every direction. Certainly, the borders of our world seemed to be impacted on when some white man or woman showed up where he or she did not belo
9、ng, such as at the black Legion Hall. Our space was violated when one of them showed up at a dance or a party. The rhythms would be off. The music would sound not quite right: attempts to pat the beat off just so. Everybody would leave early.H Before 1955, most white people were just shadowy presenc
10、es in our world, vague figures of power like remote bosses at the mill or tellers at the bank. There were exceptions, of course, the white people who would come into our world in ritualized, everyday ways we all understood. Mr. Mail Man, Mr. Insurance Man, Mr. White-and-Chocolate Milk Man, Mr. Landl
11、ord Man, Mr. Police Man: we called white people by their trade, like characters in a mystery play. Mr. Insurance Man would come by every other week to collect premiums on college or death policies, sometimes 50 cents or less.I Its no disgrace to be colored, the black entertainer Bert Williams famous
12、ly observed early in the century, but it is awfully inconvenient. For most of my childhood, we couldnt cat in restaurants or sleep in hotels, we couldnt use certain bathrooms or try on clothes in stores. Mama insisted that we dress up when we went to shop. She was carefully dressed when she went to
13、clothing stores, and wore white pads called shields under her arms so her dress or blouse would show no sweat. Wed like to try this on, shed say carefully, uttering her words precisely and properly. We dont buy clothes we cant try on, shed say when they declined, and wed walk out in Mamas dignified
14、(有尊严旳) manner. She preferred to shop where we had an account and where everyone knew who she was.J At the Cut-Rate Drug Store, no one colored was allowed to sit down at the counter or tables, with one exception: my father. I dont know for certain why Carl Dadisman, the owner, wouldnt stop Daddy from
15、 sitting down. But I believe it was in part because Daddy was so light-colored, and in part because, during his shift at the phone company, he picked up orders for food and coffee for the operators. Colored people were supposed to stand at the counter, get their food to go, and leave. Even when Youn
16、g Doc Bess would set up the basketball team with free Cokes after one of many victories, the colored players had to stand around and drink out of paper cups while the white players and cheerleaders sat down in comfortable chairs and drank out of glasses.K I couldnt have been much older than five or
17、six as I sat with my father at the Cut-Rate one afternoon, enjoying two scoops of caramel ice cream. Mr. Wilson, a stony-faced, brooding Irishman, walked by.Hello, Mr. Wilson, my father said.Hello, George.L I was genuinely puzzled. Mr. Wilson must have confused my father with somebody else, but who?
18、 There werent any Georges among the colored people in Piedmont. Why dont you tell him your name, Daddy? I asked loudly. Your name isnt George.He knows my name, boy, my father said after a long pause. He calls all colored people George.M I knew we wouldnt talk about it again; even at that age, 1 was
19、given to understand that there were some subjects it didnt do to worry to death about. Now that I have children, I realize that what distressed my father wasnt so much the Mr. Wilsons of the world as the painful obligation to explain the racial facts of life to someone who hadnt quite learned them y
20、et. Maybe Mr. Wilson couldnt hurt my father by calling him George; but I hurt him by asking to know why.注意:此部分试题请在答题卡2上作答。46. The author felt as a boy that his life in a separated neighborhood was casual and cozy.47. There is every sign of decline at the paper mill now.48. One reason the authors fat
21、her could sit and eat at the drug store was that he didnt look that dark.49. Piedmont was a town of immigrants from different parts of the world.50. In spite of the awful inconveniences caused by racial prejudice, the authors family managed to live a life of dignity.51. The author later realized he
22、had caused great distress to his father by asking why he was wrongly addressed.52. The author took pride in being from Piedmont because of its natural beauty.53. Colored people called white people by the business they did.54. Colored people who lived in Piedmont did heavy manual jobs at the paper mi
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