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46、 The passage tells US that_________．
A．Americans are forced to beefficient against their will
B．Americans should do whatthey are wiHing to do
C．people ought not to workSO hard for efficiency
D．Americans are at a losswhat to do


47、 The“pleasant day”to which the author refers was the period-when we_________．
A．did not feel guilty aboutwasting time
B．were able to act of ourown free will
C．seemed to have better weather
D．did not have SO manyenemies

48、阅读文章，回答48-67题：
　　People are used to speaking their nativelanguage，SOimmigrants are having many problembetween the first generation and the secondgeneration because they don’t have the same nativelanguage．Also，the second generation is losing theiridentity．Especially in America，therearemany immigrants that came from different countries to succeed in the States．Because they suf-fer in lots of areas such as getting a job andtrying to speak English，they want their children tospeakEnglish，not only at school，butalso at home in order to be more successful．Becauseofthis situation，their children are losing their ethnicidentity．
　　For example，my aunt，who has beenliving in Chicago for twenty—five years，hasthreechildren and they were all born in the States．Theeighteen—year old daughter speaks English asa native language and she speaksKorean very well t00．She has no problems talking with herparents，"butshe still doesn’t understand Korean jokes，and there aresometimes misunderstand-ings．The second daughter isfourteen years old，and she doesn’t want to speak Korean．Myaunt often gets upset with her because she is very Americanizedand they cannot understandeach other．Even when my auntpunishes her，this daughter does not understand what myauntis talking about．The third child is a twelve—yearold son．He speaks English to his parents andmy auntspeaks Korean to him as she does to the second daughter．He also has a problem com’municating with his parents．My aunt is trying to teach him to speak both languages，but it isvery hard for him because he speaks English all day anddoes not understand why he should learnto speak Korean．
　　We must realize that language is importantand valuable for many reasons．Immigrantsshould make an effort to make their children understandtheir heritage by teaching them theparents’language．This is very important，not only for the harmony of the family．butalso inhelping the second generation establish their identity．
What do you think this article is about?
A．Learning a second language．
B．Immigrants who become sickin the U．S．．
C．Schools attended byimmigrants to the U．S．．
D．Language and its effect onthe identity of immigrants．


49、 To whom does the mother speak Korean?
A．Her+oldest daughter only．
B．Her two daughters only．
C．AU of her children．
D．Only to her son．


50、 Why did the author's aunt try to teachher children to speak Korean?
A．To help her improve herKorean language skills．
B．To help them establish aKorean identity．
C．To help them succeed inthe U．S．
D．To help them find a goodjob．


51、 Based on the passage，the phrase“your identity”means________．
A．your home
B．your dignity
C．who you are
D．where you are from

52、阅读文章，回答52-71题：
　　As my train wasn’t due to leave for another hour，I had plenty of time to spare．After buy．ingsome newspapers to read on the journey，I made my way tothe luggage office to collect theheavy suitcase I had left there three days before．There were only a few people waiting，and Itook out my wallet to find the receipt for my ease．The receipt didn’t seem to be where I hadleft it．I emptied the contents of the wallet，andrailway—tickets，money，scraps ofpaper，andphotographs fell out of it；but no matter how hard I searched.the receipt was nowhere to befound．
　　When my turn canle，I explained the situationsorrowfully to the assistant．The man looked at mesuspiciously as if to say that he had heard this type of story many times andaskedme to describe the came．I told him that it Was anold，brown—looking object，nodifferent fromthe many cases I Could see on tlle shelVes. The assistant tllengaVe me a form and told me to。make a list of the chiefcontents of the case．If they were correct，he said，I could take theca$e away．I tried to remember all the articles I had hurriedly packed andwrote them down asthey came to me．
　　After Ihad done this，Iwent to look among the shelves．There were hundreds ofcasesthere and for one dreadful moment．it occurred tome that if someone had picked the receiptup，he couldhave easily claimed the case already．This hadn’thappened fortunately，for aftera time I found the caselying on its side high up in a comer．After examiningthe articles in—side，the assistant Was soon satisfiedthat it was mine and told me I could take the case away．Again I took out my wallet：this time to pay．I pulled out ten-shilling note and the“lost”re—ceipt slipped outwith it．I couldn’t help blushing and looked up at theassistant．He was nod—ding his head knowingly，as if to say that he had often seen this happen before too!
The writer had plenty of time to spare ashis train_______．
A．was leaving later thanscheduled
B．was not leaving foranother hour
C．was not scheduled to leave
D．was delayed for somereason


53、 When the writer explained his situation，the assistant_______．
A．responded quickly sayingit was a lie
B．believed him
C．gave a suspicious look asmuch as to say he had heard such stories before
D．just took his story as ajoke


54、 What dreadful idea occurred to thewriter?
A．The receipt had beenstolen by someone．
B．someone had taken away thecase．
C．He could not claim hiscase without the receipt．
D．He had left his receipt athome．


55、 The case_______．
A．lay fight on one side of ashelf
B．was right behind as oldbrown-looking case
C．was between two highshelves
D．was among the hundreds ofcases