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[填空题]Chinese Americans occupy only a small ______ of American population.
[填空题] Chinese Americans
Chinese Americans are an ethnic minority in the
US. They used to be discriminated.
1. The history of Chinese immigrants
1) The first group of Chinese arrived during the
California (1) ______ in 1849. Their success invited (1)______
envy. They had to earn a living by doing the (2)______ (2)______
for the white miners, setting up restaurants, working as
farmhands or as (3) (3)______
2) The second group of Chinese arrived in the
early (4)______as laborers to construct the (4)______
(5)______ (5)______
3) After World War Two, more Chinese
were permitted to settle in America.
4) Today’s Chinese Americans are mostly the (6) (6) ______
______ of the first two groups of immigrants.
2. Some of their noteworthy characteristics as part
of the
[单项选择]The History of Chinese Americans
Chinese have been in the United States for almost two hundred years. In fact, the Chinese had business relations with Hawaii prior to relations with the mainland when Hawaii was not yet part of the United States. But United States investments controlled the capital of Hawaii at that time. In 1788, a ship sailed from Guangzhou to Hawaii. Most of the crewmen were Chinese. They were considered the pioneers of Hawaii. The Immigration Commission reported that the first Chinese arrived in the United States in 1820, eight in 1830 and seven hundred and eighty in 1850. The Chinese population gradually increased and reached 64,199 in 1870.
For many years it was common in the United States to associate Chinese Americans with restaurants and laundries. People did not realize that the Chinese had been driven into these occupations by the prejudice and discrimination that faced them in this country.
The first Chinese to r
A. gold miners
B. railroad builders
C. steelworkers
D. farmhands