(练习)9 微阶段刷题过关卷(三)-【提分教练】2022-2023学年新教材高中英语选择性必修第四册(外研版2019)

微阶段刷题过关卷(三) (时间：65分钟　分值：70分) Unit 2　Starting out, Understanding ideas & Using language 第Ⅰ卷(满分32.5分) Ⅰ. 阅读理解(共8小题；每小题2.5分，满分20分) A “What are you？” they ask. “Guess，” I say. Some suggest I have Japanese eyes. Others think I'm Filipino, maybe Indian. Few guess the truth: I am Mexican American. But it's not like I've ever worn that name alone. I'm part of a younger generation of Americans whose identity is shaped neither by where we came from nor where we ended up. My parents know the California immigrant experience first­hand. They grew up picking fruit in the San Joaquin Valley, knowing what it was to be poor, but also knowing what it was to be Mexican. Wanting a better life for their children, they went to college and got professional jobs. By the time I was born, they were fully accepted into the middle class. I grew up in the racially mixed zones of Sacramento, and when my parents talked of their years in the fields, it was hard to connect those stories to where we found ourselves now. By the time I reached my teens, difference had announced itself. We were all struggling for a sense of individuality, looking everywhere but where we came from. Identity became goods. Wearing certain clothes and liking certain kinds of music created social categories. I became a junkman, sorting through the ruins of pop culture past looking for the pieces of myself. In love with the Beatles, I linked myself to England. Fascinated by Japanese cartoons, I took language classes at the local Buddhist temple. I grew up American to a fault, rarely considering my own people's culture and humanity. I left Sacramento and moved to San Francisco's Mission District to put myself together again. There I first saw my people living in a separate community that had its own language, one I'd never learned. My brown face led people to ask me for directions in Spanish. I could only respond with a universally understood shrug. “This is what I am，” I said to myself, looking at a street full of newly ar