18IV4-0001 1 1 Anyone meeting Matthew Daniels for the first time could easily assume that he is the product of a conventional, even privileged childhood. With his well-spoken manner, his Ivy League education, and his business card reading President, Massachusetts Family Institute, Mr. Daniels is the picture of youthful American success. But Daniels can tell a story that refutes those assumptions about his childhood. His father abandoned the family when he was 2. His mother took a job as a secretary. But on her way home one evening she was mugged, sustaining injuries that eventually left her unable to work, the family went on welfare. Growing up in New Yorks Spanish Harliem, Daniels was one of only four white students until ninth grade. Despite a difficult environment, he stayed out of trouble. He even won a full scholarship to Dartmouth College, graduating in 1985. How did he do it? He credits his mothers religious faith. Its why I didnt end up like the guys in my neighborhood, he says. Some went to prison. Although his father, a writer, didnt support the family, he maintained contact with his son, emphasizing the importance of books and education. Because of his experience, Daniels has become a passionate advocate of the two-parent family. He sees it as an institution under cultural siege, generally supported by the person in the street but too often dismissed by those in academic and media circles. Some of the groups, he says, have miscalculated the social consequences of trying to convince people that there are all sorts of alternative family forms. Even during law school, he encountered professors who were openly hostile to the idea that we need two-parent families to have a healthy society. Reporters and academics may not be the only ones ambivalent about marriage. A new study of college textbooks finds that many texts on marriage paint a pessimistic view. They emphasize divorce and domestic violence, the report says, and focus far more on adult relationships and problems than on childrens needs. Question:According to the passage, Daniels is a _ man.AsuccessfulBconventionalCprivilegedDunfortunateA 42 You will never guess whom I _ on the street yesterday.Aran overBran out ofCran intoDran uptoC 43 Also serving to produce a distinctive usage was the practice of distinguishing a son from a father by the use of Junior. This typically American practice began in the middle of the eighteenth century when most gentlemen had some knowledge of Latin and were familiar with the use of the term Junior, translated often into English as the younger, as applied to such Latin worthies as Cato and Pliny. The practice was so well established by 1776 that three signers of the Declaration added the Jr. Agai. British custom has been different; the second of a pair of great statesmen is known as William Pitt, the younger. Still another important movement beginning around 1750 was the rise of the name Charles. Earlier, Charles is hardly found at all in New England, and is rare in the other colonies. After that its growth was not only steady but even spectacular. By 1850 it had become one of the commonest names, and it has remained close to the top since that time. Its curious nickname, Chuck, is typically American. Almost at an equal pace with the rise of Charles, the use of Biblical names, even in New England, began to fall off. Ebenezer, and even Samuel and Benjamin, came to have about them an old-fashioned aura. The facts are clear enough; the causes remain obscure. Immigration probably had little to do with such changes. English influence, at the ideal level, may have helped the growth of Charles. During these same decades the name was increasing in popularity there, where Sir Charles Grandison was a much read novel and Bonie Prince Charlie had given the name a renewed vogue among those who still held sentimentally to the Stuarts. But most of the other new developments seem to be wholly native and even to run counter to British practice. Question:The use of name of Charles _.Awas popular before the middle of the eighteenth centuryBbegan to be noticeable in New England in the early eighteenth centuryCwas spectacularly popular by the middle of the nineteenth centuryDis less popular now than beforeC 44 If it _ tomorrow, I would not go out.Ashould rainBwould rainCwill rainDis going to rainA 45 No one can avoid _ by advertisements.AinfluencedBinfluencingCto influenceDbeing influencedD 46 When there are small children around, it is necessary to put bottles of pills out of _.AhandBholdCplaceDreachD 47 Only guests of the hotel enjoy the _ of using the private beach.AprivilegeBpossibilityCfavorDadvan