1. The word "homogenizing" (Line 1, Paragraph 1) most probably means  

[A] identifying.             [B] associating.          [C] assimilating.        [D] monopolizing.

2. According to the author, the department stores of the 19th century

[A] played a role in the spread of popular culture.        [B] became intimate shops for common consumers.
[C] satisfied the needs of a knowledgeable elite.          [D] owed its emergence to the culture of consumption.

3. The text suggests that immigrants now in the U.S.

[A] are resistant to homogenization.                  [B] exert a great influence on American culture.
[C] are hardly a threat to the common culture.          [D] constitute the majority of the population.

4. Why are Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks mentioned in Paragraph 5?

[A] To prove their popularity around the world.   [B] To reveal the public's fear of immigrants.      
[C] To give examples of successful immigrants.         [D] To show the powerful influence of American culture.

5. In the author’s opinion, the absorption of immigrants into American society is

[A] rewarding.           [B] successful.           [C] fruitless.              [D] harmful.

Text  2 

 [2005, RC Text 1]

    Everybody loves a fat pay rise. Yet pleasure at your own can vanish if you learn that a colleague has been given a bigger one. Indeed, if he has a reputation for slacking, you might even be outraged. Such behaviour is regarded as “all too human", with the underlying assumption that other animals would not be capable of this finely developed sense of grievance. But a study by Sarah Brosnan and Frans de Waal of Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia, which has just been published in Nature,suggests that it is all too monkey, as well.

    The researchers studied the behaviour of female brown capuchin monkeys. They look cute. They are good-natured, co-operative creatures, and they share their food readily. Above all, like their female human counterparts, they tend to pay much closer attention to the value of “goods and services” than males.

    Such characteristics make them perfect candidates for Dr. Brosnan's and Dr. de Waal's study. The researchers spent two years teaching their monkeys to exchange tokens for food. Normally, the monkeys were happy enough to exchange pieces of rock for slices of cucumber. However, when two monkeys were placed in separate but adjoining chambers, so that each could observe what the other was getting in return for its rock, their behaviour became markedly different.