21.We can infer from the passage that “a nigger ”means________.
A.a white person                      B.a black person
C.anyone  that is not white           D.anyone that is not black

22.When the teacher asked him to sit down and rise with the others ,the author was confused because_________.
A. he never considered himself a non-white person
B. he thought the teacher didn’t recognize him 
C. he thought he should be considered
D. he thought it rude for the teacher to call his name

23.It was on that day that he began to realize that _________.
A. he was a nigger 
B. he was different from others because of his beauty 
C. his color was like that of his mother 
D. he differed from other white people even with his beauty

24.From the passage we can learn that _________.
A. the boy’s father left them for some reasons
B. the boy’s  mother didn’t want to mention his father at all
C. the boy never met his father before
D. the boy’s mother hated his father

25.This passage generally tells us a story of ________.
A.a boy who suddenly realized that he was a colored person 
B.a boy who had  been looked down upon because he had no father
C.the miserable life of colored people 
D.the life of a one-parent family

Passage Two

Questions 26 to 30 are based on the following passage.

   For Americans, time is a “resource” that, like water or coal, can be used well or poorly. “Time is money,” they say. “You only get so much time in this life; you’d best use it wisely.” The future will not be better than the past or the present unless people use their time fro constructive, future-oriented activities. Thus, Americans admire a “well-organized” person, one who has a written list of things to do and a schedule for doing them. The ideal person is punctual and treasures other people’s time.

   The American attitude towards time is not necessarily shared by others, especially non-Europeans. They are more likely to consider time as something that is simply there around them, not something they can “use”. One of the more difficult things many foreign businessmen and students must adjust to in the States is the notion that time must be saved whenever possible and used wisely every day.

In their efforts to use their time. Wisely, Americans are sometimes seen by foreign visitors as automatons, unhuman creatures who are so tied to their clocks and their schedules that they cannot participate in or enjoy the human interactions that are the truly important things in life. “They are like little machines running around,” one foreign visitor said.

The emphasis Americans place on efficiency is closely related to their concepts of the future, change and time. To do something efficiently is to do it in the way that is quickest and requires the smallest investment of resources. American businesses sometimes hire “efficiency experts” to review their operations and suggest ways in which they could accomplish more than they are currently accomplishing with the resources they are investing. Popular periodicals carry suggestions for more efficient ways to clean house, raise children, tend the yard, and so on.