Now go through TEXT G quickly and answer question 53.

　　Japanese Prime Minister Keizo Obuchi was famous for making his own phone calls, ringing up advertisers, friends, politicians and people he read about in newspapers. He picked up his push-button phone —— called a "pushu-phone" in Japanese —— punched in the number and announced," This is Obuchi." After Obuchis habits became known, it wasnt long before someone coined the word "buchi-phones." So was born a Japanese word. More than 6,000 words and phrases are added to the language each year —— most of them short-lived —— and used in a stream so rapid that people complain they often cannot figure out what is being said. One word that is now acknowledged as a permanent part of the lexicon is "risutora", the Japanese version of "restructure". Its most common meaning here is to be fired or pressured to quit as a company downsizes. "He was restructured" is heard frequently these days. Teenagers are a major source of the linguistic additions, and, perhaps not surprisingly, adults say they are particularly difficult to understand. All teens seem to know that "one-girl", which translates as "one-cut", is a way of communicating with friends by cell phone without paying the phone company. The caller lets the receiving phone ring once, then cuts it off. The recipient sees the number that the call came from, recognizes a friend and perhaps sends a one-giri back. Many of these words are in English, often shortened and always pronounced according to the Japanese syllabic alphabet, which does not include, for example, "th" or any single consonant except "n.". The Japanese words derived from English are not always recognizable. "Game" is "geimu", "animation" is "anime". From "poketo (pocket)" and "monsuta (monster)" the Japanese took "poke" and "mon" to make, of course, "Pokemon". Fumio Inoue, professor of social linguistics at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, said:" I do think that the number of new words reflects the degree of modernization of the culture. Thats the first reason. The second is that we have a precedent for absorbing language from others." The Japanese language is a mix of Chinese characters, words with Japanese roots and words from other language. The distinction between words that were originally Japanese and those that came from Western language is eroding. The Japanese word for "shame" is "shuchi". Young people are adding the English ending "less." So Japanese now say "shuchi-lesu" —— which is what many people seem so feel about twisting and stretching their language.

　　53. The primary purpose of the passage is to ____.

　　A) discuss the Japanese Prime Minister.

　　B) discuss the coined words in the recent Japanese language.

　　C) deal with language problem.

　　D) deal with word formation.

　　TEXT H First read the following question 54.

　　The novel "Generation X" was written mainly for ____.

　　A. card games.

　　B. economy.

　　C. finance.

　　D. younger generation.