【正文】 they got. We can say their success in the US is a partial testament to what is possible in American society. Once I took my youngest son to a park where some older boys started taunting him with mock Chinese. I remained speechless, which, of course, was unfortunate. I now know that I should have confronted the older boys and let them know that what they were doing was actually hurtful and not just fun. When I was the target, I could walk away from it. Now that my own children are the targets, I need to bee more proactive to at least offer some hope that the cycle of racism will someday be broken. Questions:1. What is true about the speaker?2. Why did the speaker avoid anything that was associated with being Chinese?3. How did his eldest son feel when ing home to say his classmates called him Chinese?4. What can we infer from the passage?5. What did the speaker do when his youngest son was taunted by some older boys in a park?Personal IdentificationIf overseas travel to Europe or Asia is on your vacation agenda this year, be prepared for frequent identification checks as you move from one country to the next. That39。s the word from travel experts and seasoned travelers like University of California at Riverside consumer expert Karen Varcoe, who says unlike here in the US, passports, visas and other personal identification papers are essential in foreign countries whose laws highly differ from border to border. Most of the countries that we travel in today, if they39。re overseas, are very Western and, ah, you can get help or assistance in many different ways. You just need to be careful that you always have identification because regardless of what happens to you, you need to be able to prove who you are and that you are from the United States. Of course if you are traveling within the United States, that39。s not a problem. Now if you are going to Canada or Mexico, ah, they often don39。t require a passport but still it39。s not a bad thing to take because it39。s just one more proof of who you are and where you39。re from.Questions:1. If you are going to Europe or Asia this year, what should you be prepared for?2. What does Karen Varcoe say?3. Why should you be careful that you always have identification?4. If you are going to Mexico, you don39。t have to take a passport, but why had you better take it anyway? Unit 15My Grandma (Part One)We39。re moving Grandma up to Ohio. My father announced. The words floated over the dinner table and then sank around us like a blanket. Grandma was not a typical cookiebaking, sweet old lady. In fact, Grandma was a terror who would probably blow her top at being called Old Lady rather than Grandma. I nodded and smiled at my parents. Sure, Dad. I think it39。s a great idea.Back in the 1960s, my paternal grandparents had moved from rural Iowa, where they had been born, grown up, married, raised a family and lived for nearly sixty years in small farming munities on the Minnesota border. It didn39。t seem like a bad idea at the time to retire to rural Arkansas. A lot of their friends were going there. It was warmer than Iowa and the winters weren39。t so harsh. Three of their four boys were grown, out of the house and college, and were married, taxpaying, good citizens. The youngest was a teenager, and he would be gone soon. With nothing to stop them, they moved to Arkansas, bought a house and began their new life.Fast forward to the late eighties, Grandma was nearly blind with macular degeneration and Grandpa was starting to show his age as well. Most of their friends were either dead or in just as bad shape. All of their children were scattered to the four winds, living all over the continental United States. They were unable to make their yearly trek to visit their grandchildren and expected their own children to see them once a year, usually in August. Most of the grandchildren did not go to this reunion regularly or at all, as they were in college or just starting out in life and the expense of going to Arkansas was too much.In 1994, my grandfather died. This was tragic in that he had been always a nice, loving grandfather. His sons and daughtersinlaw might use other words to describe their father, but as a grandkid, I always thought he was sweet. His death was also a tragedy for my grandmother. Not only was she losing her husband of nearly sixty years, but she was losing her eyes, as Grandpa served to see things for her that she could not.The sons convened and all debated what should be done with mom, but no consensus could be reached. Grandma said, I39。m fine, and no one had the will to disagree. One of the sons did not think she should be moved. But she says she39。s fine, he kept saying, over and over, as if saying it would make it true. Finally, my dad and the other two sons were able to convince him that something needed to be done. There was a brief mention of having her stay in our house, but this idea was quickly dismissed. We were not equipped to care for her. My father was traveling overseas 60% of the time. My mother worked. I was a fulltime student and was working. My husband was also working two jobs. Besides, Grandma made it clear again and again that she didn39。t want to be cared for. The best option, we all agreed, was to give her the measure of independence that she demanded, but to keep her close enough that we could visit her daily. It was decided that Grandma would move up to Ohio in January and live in a senior assisted living facility, only two miles from our house. It had a kitchen, living room, bedroom and bath.Having not seen my grandmother since I was eighteen and a freshman in college, I was excited to start anew with her. I had already decided that I would visit her daily and read the newspaper to her, cook for her and get some of that quality time that I hadn39。t got as a child. Also, I wanted desperately to love her. Questions:1. How did the family react to the news that Grandm