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35) If you (ask)... me, I would explain it to you.

C. READING

Read the passage and choose one correct answer for each question.

The nuclear family, consisting of a mother, father, and their children may be

more an American ideal than an American reality. Of course, the so-called

traditional American family was always more varied than we had been led to

believe, reflecting the very different racial, ethnic, class, and religious customs

among different American groups.

The most recent government statistics reveal that only about one third of all

current American families fit the traditional mold and another third consists of

married couples who either have no children or have none still living at home. Of

the final one third, about 20 percent of the total number of American households is

single people, usually women over sixty-five years of age. A small percentage,

about 3 percent of the total, consists of unmarried people who choose to live

together; and the rest, about 7 percent, are single, usually divorced parents, with at

least one child.