11. You may be unaware of the time passing by in a bookshop because ______. A) you want to escape the reality of everyday life B) you have to finish browsing one of the books C) you don't want to waste your money D) you have to make sure you don't buy a dull book as a present
12. In a good bookshop _______. A) the shop assistant greets you in a friendly way B) you feel obliged to buy one of the books C) your heart is contented D) no shop assistant will approach you unless his service is called
13. It is very unwise to enter a bookshop and buy ______. A) a best-selling novel on brass-rubbing B) a book on ancient coins C) a book on the subject that vaguely interests you D) a book well illustrated and expensive
14. According to the writer, the best way to escape the realities of routine life is _____. A) to have a long chat with assistant in a bookshop B) to stay in a bookshop, being absorbed in reading books of various kinds C) to buy a best-selling novel to read D) to wander about in the streets
15. The best title of this selection would be632 A) On buying books B) Bookshops and Assistants C) Booklovers and Bookshops D) How to Escape the Realities of Everyday Life in a Bookshop
Questions 16 to 20 are on the following passage:
Social change is more likely to occur in societies where there is a mixture of different kinds of people than in societies where people are similar in many ways. The simple reason for this is that there are more different ways of looking at things present in the first kind of society, There are more ideas, more disagreements in interest, and more groups and organizations with different beliefs. In addition, there is usually a greater worldly interest and greater tolerance in mixed societies. All these factors tend to promote social change by opening more areas of life to decision. In a society where people are quite similar in many ways, there are fewer occasions for people to see the need or the opportunity for change because everything seems to be the same. And although conditions may not be satisfactory, they are at least customary and undisputed.
Within a society, social change is also likely to occur more frequently and more readily in the material aspects of the culture than in the non-material, for example, in technology rather than in values; in what has been learned later in life rather than what was learned early; in the less basic and less emotional aspects of society than in their opposites; in the simple elements rather than in the complex ones; in form rather than in substance; and in elements that are acceptable to the culture rather than in strange elements.
Furthermore, social change is easier if it is gradual. For example, it comes readily on human relations on a continuous scale rather than one with sharp dichotomies. This is one reason why change has not come more quickly to black Americans as compared to other American minorities, because of the sharp difference in appearance between them and their white counterparts.
16. According to the passage, one of the factors that tend to promote social change is _____. A) mutual interest B) different points of view C) more worldly people D) advanced technology
17. Social change is less likely to occur in a society where people are quite similar in many ways because______. A) people there are always satisfied with their living conditions B) people there have id entical needs that can be met without much disputes C) people there have got accustomed to their conditions that they seldom think it necessary to change D) people there are less emotional and easy to please