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A. way      B. label       C. stereotypes      D. situated       AB. foreign      AC. studies AD. references    BC. address      BD. politely     CD. insulting     ABC. respectively                      The US is often called a “melting pot” full of people of different colors, races and religions. But there has long been a problem about how to properly ___41___ different races and ethnic minorities. On May 20, US President Barack Obama signed a bill that will remove some old racial language from US law.   The bill, which Obama signed during Asian Pacific American Heritage Month, will get rid of all ___42____ to “Orientals”, “Negroes”, “Indians” and “Eskimos”, and replace them with “Asian Americans”, “African Americans”, “Native Americans” and “Alaska Natives” ___43______.     “The word ‘Oriental’ is an ___44___ and very old-fashioned term, and it’s __45___ past time for the United States government to stop using it,” Grace Meng, the New York Democrat who proposed the changes, said in a statement.    Mae M Ngai, a professor of Asian American ___46__ at Columbia University, explained why “Oriental” is often regarded as an offensive word. She told The New York Times that “Oriental” is a Eurocentric name: “You should call people by what they call themselves, not how they are __47___ in relation to yourself.”  Jeff Yang, a reporter for the San Francisco Chronicle, also thinks that the image associated with the __48___ “Oriental” makes it insulting. “You can’t think of ‘Oriental’ without having the smell of incense (香) and the sound of a gong (锣) kind in your head,” he said in an interview with NPR.   The new bill sends the message that “oriental” is hardly an inoffensive word, according to Erika Lee, director of the Immigration History Research Center at the University of Minnesota.    “In the US, the term ‘Oriental’ has been used to support the idea that Asians were or are forever ___49___ and could never become American. These ideas helped to justify racial discrimination and segregation ,” Lee told NBC News. Lee said that using the term only leads to more “inequality, disrespect, discrimination, and ___50___ towards Asian Americans, a group that is still not seen enough in American politics despite being the fastest-growing group in the US”.   答案： BC   AD  ABC   CD   A  //   AC     D     B    AB    C

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