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【单选题】"Before, we were too black to be white. Now. we’re too white to be black. " Hadija, one of SouthAfrica’s 3. 5mColoured (mixed race) people, sells lace curtains at a street market in a bleak township outsideCape Town. In 1966 she and her family were driven out ofDistrict Six, in centralCape Town, by an apartheid government that wanted the area for whites. Most of the old houses and shops were bulldozed but a Methodist church, escaping demolition, has been turned into a little museum, with an old street plan stretched across the floor. On it, families have identified their old houses, writing names and memories in bright felt-tip pen. "We can forgive, but not forget," says one.
Up to a point. In the old days, trampled on by whites, they were made to accept a second-class life of scant privileges as a grim reward for being lighter-skinned than the third-class blacks. Today, they feel trampled on by the black majority. The white-led National Party, which still governs the WesternCape, the province where some 80% ofColoureds live, plays on this fear to good electoral effect. With no apparent irony, the party also appeals to theColoured sense of common culture with fellowAfrikaans-speaking whites, a link the Nats have spent decades denying.
This curious.courtship is again in full swing.
A、municipal election is to be held in the province on May 29th and the Nats need theColoured vote if they are to win many local councils.
By most measures,Coloureds are still better-off than blacks. Their jobless rate is high, 21% according to the most recent figures available.But the black rate is 38%. Their average yearly income is still more than twice that of blacks.But politics turns on fears and aspirations. MostColoureds fret that affirmative action, the promotion of non-whites into government-related jobs, is leaving them behin
D、Affirmative action is supposed to helpColoureds (and Indians) too. It often does not. They may get left off a shortlist because, for instance, a job requires the applicant to speak a blackAfrican language, such as Xhos
A、
SomeColoureds think that the only way they will improve their lot is to launch their own. ethnically based, political parties. Last year a group formed the Kleurling Weer-standsbeweging, orColoured Resistance Movement.But in-fighting caused this to crumble: some members wanted it to promoteColoured interests and culture; others to press for an exclusive "homeland".
In fact, theColoureds’ sense of collective identity is undefined, largely imposed by apartheid’s twisted logi
C、They are descended from a mix of races, including the Khoi and San (two indigenousAfrican peoples), Malay slaves imported by theDutch, and whiteEuropean settlers.And though they do indeed share much withAfrikaners—many belong to theDutch ReformedChurch and many speakAfrikaans—others speakEnglish or are Muslim or worship spirits.
Under apartheid, beingColoured became something to try to escape from. Many tried to pass as white; some succeeded in getting "reclassified".Aspiring to whiteness and fearful of blackness, their identity is hesitant, even defensive. ManyColoureds feel most sure about what they are not. they vigorously resist any attempt to use the term "black" to embrace all nonwhite people. "My people are terrible racists, but not by choice," says Joe Marks, aColoured member of the WesternCape parliament. "The blacks today have the political power, the whites have economic power. We just have anger. \
The passage mainly discloses ______ .
A、the terrible racial-discriminative policy in SouthAfrica
B．the positive outlook for blacks to take over the power in SouthAfrica

C、theAffirmative action is only beneficial for blacks

D、theColoured are in a very difficult complicated situation in the political upheaval in SouthAfrica

网考网参考答案：D
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[解析] 本题的四个选项中，只有D项为正确答案。这可从文中的内容推知。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>