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Passage 2
Questions 16 to 20 are based on the following passage:
When I was growing up, the whole world was Jewish. The heroes were Jewish and the villains were Jewish. The landlord, the doctor, the grocer, your best friend, the village idiot, and the neighborhood bully: all Jewish. We were working class and immigrants as well, but that just come with the territory. Essentially we were Jews on the streets of New York. We learned to be kind, cruel, and smart and feeling in a mixture of language and gesture that was part street slang, part grade-school English, part kitchen Yiddish.
One Sunday evening when I was eight years old my parents and I were riding in the back seat of my rich uncle’s car. We had been out for a ride and now we were back in the Bronx, headed for home. Suddenly, another car sideswiped us. My mother and aunt shrieked. My uncle swore softly. My father, in whose lap I was sitting, said out the window at the speeding car, “That’s all right. Nothing but a few Jews in here.” In an instant I knew everything. I knew there was a world beyond our streets, and in that world my father was a humiliated man, without power or standing.
When I was sixteen a girl in the next building had her nose straightened; we all went together to see Selma Shapiro lying in state, wrapped in bandages from which would emerge a person fit for life beyond the block. Three buildings away a boy went downtown for a job, and on his application he wrote “Anold Brown” instead of “Anold Braunowiitz.” The news swept through the neighborhood like a wild fire. A name change? What was happening here? It was awful; it was wonderful. It was frightening; it was delicious. Whatever it was, it wasn’t standstill.
Thing felt lively and active. Self-confidence was on the rise, passivity on the wane. We were going to experience challenges. That’s what it meant to be in the new world. For the first time we could imagine ourselves out there.But whom exactly do I mean when I say we? I mean Arinie, not Selma. I mean my brother, not me. I mean the boys, not the girls. My mother stood behind me, pushing me forward. “The girls goes to college, too,” she said. And I did. But my going to college would not mean the same thing as my brother’s going to college, and we all knew it. For my brother, college meant going from the Bronx to Manhattan. But for me? From the time I was fourteen I yearned to get out of the Bronx, but get out into what? I did not actually imagine myself a working person alone in Manhattan and nobody else did either. What I did imagine was that I would marry, and that the man I married would get me downtown. He would break the perils of class and race, and some how I’d be there alongside him.
16.In the passage, we can find the author was____.
A) quite satisfied with her life
B) a poor Jewish girl
C) born in a middle-class family
D) a resident in a rich area in New York
17.Why did the author’s father say “Nothing but a few Jews in here”?
A) He was asking for help.
B) He was complaining.
C) He was reassuring.
D) He wanted to know why their car was sideswiped.
18.Selma Shapiro had her nose straightened because she wanted ____.
A) to look her best
B) to find a new job in the neighborhood
C) to live a new life in other places
D) to marry very soon
19.Anold Brown changed his name because ____.
A) there was racial discrimination in employment
B) Brown was just the same as Braunowiitz
C) it was easy to write
D) Brown sounds better
20.From the passage we can infer that ____.
A) the Jews were satisfied with their life in the Bronx
B) the Jewish immigrants could not be rich
C) all the immigrants were very poor
D) the young Jews didn’t accept the stern realityお
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