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智课网GRE 备考资料 Exercise 12 Traditional research has confronted only Mexican 2. The author most probably uses the phrase and United States interpretations of Mexican-American ―charter minority‖ (lines 6-7) to reinforce the culture. Now we must also examine the culture as we idea that Mexican Americans Line Mexican Americans have experienced it, passing from (A) are a native rather than an immigrant group 5 a sovereign people to compatriots with newly arriving in the United States settlers to, finally, a conquered people—a charter (B) played an active political role when Texas first minority on our own land. became part of the United States When the Spanish first came to Mexico, they inter- (C) recognized very early in the nineteenth century married with and absorbed the culture of the indigenous the need for official confirmation of their 10 Indians. This policy of colonization through acculturation rights of citizenship was continued when Mexico acquired Texas in the early (D) have been misunderstood by scholars trying 1800‘s and brought the indigenous Indians into Mexican to interpret their culture life and government. In the 1820‘s, United States citizens (E) identify more closely with their Indian heritage migrated to Texas, attracted by land suitable for cotton. than with their Spanish heritage 15 As their numbers became more substantial, their policy of acquiring land by subduing native populations began to 3. Which of the following statements most cle