[单项选择]The Morales family is a big family With five members.

Passage Five
In the United States the family plays an important role in most holiday activities. November is National Adoption Month. We visit with an American family that has an extra special reason to celebrate this year.
It’s not Mary Webster’s birthday. It is the day that she is adopted. She came to the Webster family about two years ago. When her new mother held Mary, she knew Mary would some day be part of their family.
Mary’s birth mother was fighting drug addiction. Webster’s were never sure if the birth mother would want to have Mary back.
The Webster’s were foster parents. It is not known how long the child will stay. No attention is paid to the emotions of the foster parents and the child. Once the birth mother has no more claim on the child, the foster family can adopt the child.
A judge makes the adoption final. The judge says this ceremony touches her emotionally.
The judge said tha
A. Mary's foster parents
B. Mary's birth parents
C. Mary's good friends
D. judges

Passage Five
The year 2000 will bring big changes in communication Cell phones will be small enough to carry in your pocket. Videophones will let you see the person you are talking to on the phone. Tiny hand size computers will know your favorite subjects. The Internet and email will be everywhere.
Technologists believe 2000 will be the year of video messaging. You will be able to see whom you’re talking to.
Also in the near future small wireless boxes will pick up information from satellites. In 5 years, computers won’t need to be connected through wires.
All of this will be good for rural areas and countries that don’t have cattle or telephone now.
In 20 years you may only need to think about something and the computer will do it.
Constance Hale is the author of Sin and Syntax, "I believe that email has been an incredible boon to communication. People are writing today where they would have been telep
A. One of the biggest barriers to Internet use is getting wires into rural areas.
B. The wireless computers will be cheaper.
C. People in rural areas don't have anything else to do.
D. People in rural areas already have wireless boxes on their roofs.