Read the passage and choose the best answer.

Family life is changing. Two-parent households are on the decline in the United States as divorce, remarriage and cohabitation are on the rise. And families are smaller now, both due to the growth of single-parent households and the drop in fertility. Not only are Americans having fewer children, but the circumstances surrounding parenthood have changed. While in the early 1960s babies typically arrived within a marriage, today fully four-in-ten births occur to women who are single or living with a non-marital partner. At the same time that family structures have transformed, so has the role of mothers in the workplace – and in the home. As more moms have entered the labor force, more have become breadwinners – in many cases, primary breadwinners – in their families.

As a result of these changes, there is no longer one dominant family form in the US. Parents today are raising their children agianst a backdrop of increasingly diverse and, for many, constantly evolving family forms.

Which of the following trends is true in the United States?

We understood him in spite of his strong accent (though)

Mark the letter to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others.

Mark the letter to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others.

I find it absolutely astonished that you didn’t like Paris.

Mark the letter to indicate the word whose underlined part differs from the others in the position of primary stress.

Read the passage and choose the best answer.

Just like American students, you will have to submit your academic transcripts as part of your application for admission to university or college. Academic transcripts are (23)…………...copies of your academic work. In the US, this (24)…………...your “grades” and “grade point average”(GPA), which are measurements of your academic achievement. Courses are commonly graded using percentages, which are converted (25)…………...letter grades.

The grading system and GPA in the USA can be (26)…………..., especially for international students. The interpretation of grades has a lot of variation. For example, two students who attended different schools (27)…………...submit their transcripts to the same university. They both have 3.5 GPAs, but one student attended an average high school while the other attended a prestigious school that was academically challenging. The university might interpret their GPAs differently because the two schools have dramatically different standards

There’s no need for you to clean the house again.

It is expected that all schools have been equipped with laboratories by 2050.