Foreign-born Asians and Hispanics “have higher rates of intermarriage than do U.S –born whites and blacks.” By the third generation, one third of Hispanic women are married to non-Hispanics, and 41 percent of Asian–American women are married to non-Asians.

　　Rodriguez note that children in remote villages around the world are fans of superstars like Arnold Schwarzenegger and Garth Brooks, yet “some Americans fear that immigrant living within the United States remain somehow immune to the nation’s assimilative power.”

　　Are there divisive issues and pockets of seething anger in America? Indeed. It is big enough to have a bit of everything. But particularly when viewed against America’s turbulent past, today’s social induces suggest a dark and deteriorating social environment.

　　22. 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

　　[答案] A

　　[解题思路]

　　文章第一段中谈到“the casualness and absence of consumption” launched by the 19th--century department stores that offered “vast arrays of goods in an elegant atmosphere. Instead of intimate shops catering to a knowledgeable elite, these were stores anyone could enter, regardless of class or background. This turned shopping into a public and democratic act” (19世纪开始百货商店倡导的“消费文化”深深地吸引着人们，这些百货商店“环境舒适、商品琳琅满目，而不是那种迎合精英阶层的精品商店”，它们“允许任何人的光临，而并不区分人们的阶层和背景)，因此由于商店的商品丰富且对待所有人不分高低贵贱都一视同仁，人们购买的东西同一化、进而衣食穿着都趋于相似，可见百货商店在促进大众文化传播中起到了重要的作用。B选项的错误原因在于百货商店不是针对普通老百姓的精品店，而是面对社会各阶层的大众商店。C选项的错误在于真正满足知识精英阶层需求的是迎合其口味的精品店，而非百货商店。D选项的错误在于颠倒因果关系，事实上19世纪百货商店的兴起是消费文化出现的原因，而非其结果。

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