TEXT D In recent years, there has been an increasing awareness of the inadequacies of the judicial system in the U.S. Costs are going up rapidly both for the taxpayers and the litigants and the litigants, or parties in a lawsuit, have to wait sometimes many years before having their day in court. Many suggestions have been put forward concerning methods of improving the situating, but as in most branches of the Government, changes come slowly. One suggestion that has been made in order to maximize the efficiency of the system is to allow districts that have too many waiting cases tomorrow judges from other districts. Another suggestion is to use pretrial conferences in which the judge meets with the litigants and their lawyers in order to narrow the issues, limit the witnesses, and provide for a more orderly trial. The theory behind pretrial conferences is that judges will spend less time on each case and parties will more readily settle before trial when they realize the adequacy of their claims and their opponents evidence. Many states have now established another method, small-claims courts. The proceedings cost the litigants almost nothing. In California, for example, the parties must appear before the judge without the assistance of lawyers. The proceedings are quite informal and there is no peaking——the litigants need to make only a one-sentence statement of their claim By doing so, the plaintiff gives up any right to a jury trial and the right to appeal the decision.

　　77. The judicial system is considered inadequate because of _____

　　A) high costs and long delays.

　　B) high taxes and long delays.

　　C) slow changes and high taxes.

　　D) high costs and high taxes.

　　78. The pre-trial conference is supposed to _____

　　A) reduce court evidence.

　　B) increase court costs.

　　C) raise court efficiency.

　　D) cut the number of litigants.

　　79. In small-claims courts the litigants _____

　　A) state their claims in detail.

　　B) appear without legal advisors.

　　C) can later go to a jury trial.

　　D) have to pay high court costs.

　　80. The main topic of the passage is about _____

　　A) suggestions on how to make legal claims.

　　B) ways to produce court evidence.

　　C) ways to deal with the judge in court.

　　D) methods to improve court efficiency.