WORLD POPULATIONA. PHONETICI. CHOOSE THE WORD WHOSE UNDERLINED PART IS...

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.