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综合教程 第四册unit6
1. What do you do to celebrate National Day?
? 2. Suppose you were abroad, would you do anything special to commemorate the occasion?
??? Along about this time every year, as Independence Day approaches, I pull an old American flag out of a bottom drawer where it is folded away — folded in a square, I admit, not the regulation triangle. Ive had it a long time and have always flown it outside on July 4. Here in Paris it hangs from a fourth-floor balcony visible from the street. Ive never seen anyone look up, but in my minds eye an American tourist may notice it and smile, and a French passerby may be reminded of the date and the occasion that prompt its appearance. I hope so.
??? For my expatriated family, too, the flag is meaningful, in part because we dont do anything else to celebrate the Fourth. People dont have barbecues in Paris apartments, and most other Americans I know who have settled here suppress such outward signs of their heritage — or they go back home for the summer to refuel.
??? Our children think the flag-hanging is a cool thing, and I like it because it gives us a few moments of family QA about our citizenship. My wife and I have been away from the United States for nine years, and our children are eleven and nine, so American history is mostly something they have learned — or havent learned — from their parents. July 4 is one of the times when the American in me feels a twinge of unease about the great lacunae in our childrens understanding of who they are and is prompted to try to fill the gaps. Its also a time, one among many, when my thoughts turn more generally to the costs and benefits of raising children in a foreign culture.
??? Louise and Henry speak French fluently; they are taught in French at school, and most of their friends are French. They move from language to language, seldom mixing them up, without effort or even awareness. This is a wonderful thing, of course. And our physical separation from our native land is not much of an is
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