WHAT SPECIAL RULE APPLIES TO UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

42. What special rule applies to undergraduate students?

A. They may register for graduate work at any time.

B.They may receive special permission to register for graduate work.

C.They must pass an examination in order to register for graduate work.

D. They may not register for graduate work.

Read the following passage and mark the letter A, B, C, or D on your answer sheet to indicate the correct

answer for each of the questions from 43 to 50.

MARRIED IN A KIMONO, HAPPY IN SWITZERLAND

We interviewed Mayumi, a 36-year-old Japanese woman who has lived in the Swiss town of Bevaix for two

years with her husband, an Englishman, whom she met on the banks of Lake Neuchatel in Switzerland.

In Japan, to answer someone with a ‘no’ is very impolite. “We almost never say it!” said Mayumi. She is

thinking back to how she kept this custom even upon her arrival in Switzerland. “The Japanese manage not to

ask directly in order not to embarrass the person they are speaking with. But

here, people ask very directly, ‘Do

you want a glass of wine? ‘Would you like some coffee?’ Well, I always felt I had to say ‘yes'.

The couple has been married for two years. They live in an extremely modern house in Bevaix, where Mayumi

spends most of her time. She has become a mother, and she interrupted her studies to have her second child, a

little girl whose name translated as “purity”. Mayumi’s roots are in the city of lzumo, west of Osaka. Her

brother and her parents still live in the same place, under the same roof. Her mother was married before she was