[单项选择]One language is used in every country. People, young and old, short and tall, thin and fat, use it very often. It’s everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand. It is the sign language.
When you wave your hand in the street, you are saying "Hello" to your friend. When you put up your hand in class, you’re telling the teacher that you know the fight answer or that you want to ask your teacher a question. When a policeman wants to stop cars or buses, he raises his hand. He is using sign language.
Sign language is more useful in quiet places. For example, when you are swimming with your friends, you can have a talk under water by using sign language.

Your friend knows where to go when you wave your hand to him in the street.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[单项选择]One language is used in every country. People, young and old, short and tall, thin and fat, use it very often. It’s everybody’s second language. It is easy to understand. It is the sign language.
When you wave your hand in the street, you are saying "Hello" to your friend. When you put up your hand in class, you’re telling the teacher that you know the fight answer or that you want to ask your teacher a question. When a policeman wants to stop cars or buses, he raises his hand. He is using sign language.
Sign language is more useful in quiet places. For example, when you are swimming with your friends, you can have a talk under water by using sign language.

English is used in every country.
A. Right.
B. Wrong.
C. Doesn’t say.

[单项选择]People are used to speaking their native language, so immigrants are having many problems between the first generation and the second generation because they don’t have the same native language. Also, the second generation is losing their identity. Especially in America, there are many immigrants that came from different countries to succeed in the States. Because they suffer in lots of areas such as getting a job and trying to speak English, they want their children to speak English, not only at school, but also at home in order to be more successful. Because of this situation, their children are losing their ethnic identity.
For example, my aunt, who has been living in Chicago for twenty-five years, has three children and they were all born in the States. The eighteen-year old daughter speaks English as a native language and she speaks Korean very well too. She has no problems talking with her parents, but she still doesn’t understand Korean jokes, and there are sometimes misund
A. Learning a second language.
B. Immigrants who become sick in the US.
C. Schools attended by immigrants to the US.
D. Language and its effect on the identity of immigrants.

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