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.

　　21 .The word “homogenizing” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means

　　[A] identifying

　　[B] associating

　　[C] assimilating

　　[D] monopolizing

　　[答案] C

　　[解题思路]

　　纵观全文，主要讨论的话题就是美国社会的机制使得美国人都变得同一化。即使不认识homogenizing这个词，第一段中为这个词语提供了许多解释，如第二句中的uniformity就是“同一化”的意思，此外还谈到了人们衣着、行为的同一化，百货商店又不再区别客户群等。接下来的几个段落中还将了移民们如何被同化入美国社会，其中第五段的最后一句话还出现了assimilative这个词，即“具有同化性的”。因此答案为C，assimilating意思是“同化的”，动词是“assimilative”。

　　[题目译文]

　　“homogenizing”(第一段第二行)这个词的意思可能是 。

　　[A] 识别

　　[B] 联系

　　[C] 同化

　　[D] 垄断