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(A) attached
(B) remarkable
(C) curious
(D) intelligent

9 (A) prevent (B) seduce (C) disprove (D) strengthen

10 When humans find themselves censored, silenced, or frustrated by limits of their native tongues, they learn new languages. (A) Humans learn new languages when they lose interest in their native languages. (B) Given the fact that their native languages are obsolete in daily life, humans learn new languages. (C) Humans learn new languages when they find their native tongues inadequate for communication. (D) Humans learn new languages when they discover that their native tongues are forbidden.

11 (A) This is the impulse behind the age-old practice of matchmaking. (B) Sometimes the matchmaker represents the female side and looks at available males. (C) Few communities in highly-mobile societies could sustain an arranged-marriage system anymore. (D)Modern group-maintenance matchmaking still occurs in many cultures, but it usually has less to do with social caste than with other affiliations, such as religion or ethnicity.

12 (A) This principle once guided matchmaking within strict Hindu circles. (B) The belief was to preserve social boundaries as to seek commonalities of background in potential mates. (C) Sometimes the matchmaker represents the female side and looks at available males. (D)Especially in cultural traditions that encouraged marriages between 11- or 12-year-old children, this belief was probably true.

13 (A) This is the impulse behind the age-old practice of matchmaking. (B)Modern group-maintenance matchmaking still occurs in many cultures, but it usually has less to do with social caste than with other affiliations, such as religion or ethnicity. (C) The selection practices of Internet matchmaking services do not always create happy customers. (D)Especially in cultural traditions that encouraged marriages between 11- or 12-year-old children, this belief was probably true.

14 (A) This principle once guided matchmaking within strict Hindu circles. (B) Sometimes the matchmaker represents the female side and looks at available males. (C) Internet-based matchmaking services have largely replaced earlier systems that depended on telephone contact or face-to-face meetings. (D)Especially in cultural traditions that encouraged marriages between 11- or 12-year-old children, this belief was probably true.

15 (A) The selection practices of Internet matchmaking services do not always create happy customers. (B)Modern group-maintenance matchmaking still occurs in many cultures, but it usually has less to do with social caste than with other affiliations, such as religion or ethnicity. (C) Sometimes the matchmaker represents the female side and looks at available males. (D)Especially in cultural traditions that encouraged marriages between 11- or 12-year-old children, this belief was probably true.

16 When did the system of hiring the whole family to work in the factory start? (A) After 1850 (B) At the end of the nineteenth century (C) After the first few decades of the Industrial Revolution (D) Before the Industrial Revolution

17 Which of the following statements about the life of industrial working class before the middle of the nineteenth century is NOT true? (A) Workers had no choice but to spend wages over the company stores monopolized by the factory owners. (B) Workers were satisfied with their work condition because some dull, monotonous operation was replaced by machine. (C) Workers had to live in smoky and noisy areas near the factories. (D) Workers had to work in dark and dangerous mines.

18 What is the main purpose of the second paragraph? (A) To give evidence to endorse the arguments of past historians and social scientists (B) To refute the arguments of previous historians and social scientists (C) To project the prosperous life of factory workers after 1850 (D) To give an overall picture of the conflicts between factory owners and workers

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