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請依下文回答第 16 題至第 20 題 Enraging fellow council members, two New York’s Queens Republicans yesterday called for anamendment that would designate English as the country’s official language.Asking the council to do what Congress resisted, Councilmen Thomas Ognibene of Middle Village andAl Stabile of Ozone Park said the amendment is needed to create “a truly unified nation.”The amendment was immediately attacked and rejected by council members, who likened Ognibene tothe television character Archie Bunker and called him everything from wrongheaded to anti-immigrant. Inaddition, Council Speaker Peter Vallone (D-Astoria) insisted that the resolution will never pass.“This resolution is DOA,” Vallone said. “It has already died once in this council, and I can assure you itwill die again.”It was unclear what, if any, practical effect the resolution would have had, although about two dozenstates have enacted such bills in recent years. Ognibene insisted it would force immigrants to learn English,and perhaps curtail bilingual education programs in the city’s public schools.“I am simply saying if we are going to have a society where people can grow and learn and assimilate,you have to have a common language ability to communicate,” he said.The debate turned the council’s sleepy staid meeting into a battleground, and Ognibene was repeatedlyasked to withdraw the resolution.“Why do you need to open these wounds?” asked Councilman Guillermo Linares (D-Manhattan), whocalled the proposal “disgraceful and shameful . . . it is a total disrespect to all who acknowledge and embracethe richness and greatness of our language diversity.”Councilwoman Helen Marshall (D-Elmhurst) said the thousands of new immigrants who live in herdistrict are extremely anxious to learn English.“I cannot get enough classes . . . we are trying every nook and cranny,” she said, describing efforts toget more classroom space for new immigrants. She called Ognibene’s resolution “extremely punitive andcontrary to everything the city stands for.”Ognibene shrugged off the criticism, and said any new immigrants who resist it “are insecure and take itas an insult, when it simply isn’t so. Their lack of success . . . is a failure to learn the language.”
16 Which of the following is the most appropriate title of this passage?
(A) Rooting for Immigrants
(B) Shrugging off Criticism
(C) Remedying a Unified Nation
(D) Sparring over English Only

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答案：D
難度：適中0.490909
統計：A(9),B(8),C(10),D(27),E(0)

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