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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.