53. What does it mean to “bug” a telephone, as inferred from the article? (A) To tamper the normal functions of telephone, so one can neither make or receive calls. (B) To listen in a conversation on the phone without being noticed by the speakers. (C) To make calls secretly not through one’s own line, so they are charged on others. (D) To install a meter on a telephone, so the time and money spent on calls are indicated. (E) To bother a phone conversation with buzzing noises, as if a bug stayed in the receiver.

55. Which statement below is correct about the attitudes of the American parents and children toward drug and alcohol abuse? (A) Both generations regard the activity as a way of life, and there is no need to worry about it. (B) The parents have usually regarded the activity as a problem since they were young, but their children now regard it as only a way of life. (C) The parents actually regarded the activity as only a way of life when they were young, but they now grow anxious when their children just follow what the parents once did. (D) The parents believe that, as baby boomers, they had the rights to try the illegitimate activity which their children should be denied access to. (E) Both generations regard the activity as illegitimate and uncommon, and the fuss the parents have made over their children is much ado about nothing.

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