19.“Part time” children 　　　　.

A. spend some of their time with their half brothers and some of their time with their half-sisters

B. spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriage

C. are shared between the two former spouses　　　　　 D. cannot stay with “full-time” children

18.Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?

A. Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.

B.A typical American family is made up of only a husband and a wife.

C. Americans prefer to have more kids than before.　 D. There are no nuclear families any more.

17.Divorced Americans 　　　　.

A.　　 prefer the way they live　　 B. will most likely remarry

C. have lost faith in marriage　 D. are the vast majority of people in the society

16.By calling American marrying people the author means that .　　　

A. Americans are more traditional than Europeans　

B. Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans

C. there are more married couples in U.S.A. than in Europe

D. more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age

15.Which conclusion can be drawn based on the opinions from the Japanese people (in paragraph 2 and 4 of this passage)?

A. The elders strongly advocates replacing the foreign words than young people.

B. All the people dislike speaking the foreign words, such as “digi kamey”.

C. They are so old that it is necessary to give some language assistance by a specialist.

D. People’s work determines the language they speak.

E

More surprising, perhaps, than the present difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a drop in the early 1970s,the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.

What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family was made up of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s former marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses (配偶).

Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with “full-time” children from the present marriage and “part-time” children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are great changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst　 of all this, there remains one constant: Most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.

14.According to the author, the last paragraph mainly deals with.　　　

A. how French-style language police has prevented the infection of English

B. how Japanese Foreign Words Committee prevents the infection of foreign words

C. the suitable Japanese replacements

D. why committee members and traditionalists begin to declare a war against the infection of foreign words

13.By saying “counties around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English,” the author infers that 　　　　.

A. even a restaurant worker in Japan may feel the English infection on Japanese

B. the flood of katakana has covered most of countries in the world

C. Coca-Cola is the most popular on the earth and this product covers all the global market

D. many other countries are affected greatly by American English

12.According to the author, the reason why the Japanese is infected greatly by English is .　　　

A. that nothing can prevent it from entering into Japan

B. that English is the most recognized language in the world

C. that the government has not set up a special administration department to control this trend　 before it becomes popular in Japan

D. not clearly mentioned in this passage

11.It can be learned from one of the books how to.

A. repair your digital camera for yourself　 B. work out the expenses before going　 to a restaurant

C. get the latest information about natural disasters　 D. learn a lot about historian Alan Brinkley

D

Doors and windows can’t keep them out; airport immigration officers can’t stop them and the Internet is a complete reproduction soil. They seem harmless in small doses, but large imports threaten Japan’s very uniqueness, say critics. “They are foreign words and they are infecting the Japanese language”.

“Sometimes I feel like I need a translator to understand my own language, ”says Yoko Fujimura with little anger, a 60-year-old Tokyo restaurant worker. “It’s becoming incomprehensible”.

It’s not only Japan who is on the defensive. Countries around the globe are wet through their hands over the rapid spread of American English. Coca-Cola, for example, is one of the most recognized terms on Earth.

It is made worse for Japan, however, by its unique writing system. The country writes all imported utterances(言论) except Chinese-in a different script called katakana (片假名). It is the only country to keep up such a difference. Katakana takes far more space to write than kanji-the core pictograph (象形文字) characters that the Japanese borrowed from China 1,500 years ago. Because it stands out, readers complain that sentences packed with foreign words start to look like extended strings of lights. As if that weren’t enough, katakana terms tend to get puzzling.

For example, digital camera first appears as degitaru kamera. Then they became the more ear-pleasing digi kamey. But kamey is also the Japanese word for turtle. “It’s very disappointing not knowing what young people are talking about,” says humorously Minoru Shiratori, a 53?year?old bus driver. “Sometimes I can’t tell if they’re discussing cameras or turtles.”

In a bid to stop the flood of katakana, the government has formed a Foreign Words Committee to find suitable Japanese replacements. The committee is slightly different from French-style language police, which try to support a law that forbids advertising in English. Rather, committee members and traditionalists hope a non-stop campaign of persuasion, gentle criticism and leadership by example can turn the tide.