17. In the opening paragraph, the narrator emphasizes primarily which of the following about her parents? 主旨题

　　(A) Their work ethic

　　(B) Their evolving relationship

　　(C) Their routine lives

　　(D) Their resourcefulness

　　(E) Their dependability

　　分析：根据第一段字面意思可选择出答案。并且文章的For my parents one day was like the next.表达出作者观察的生活每一天都是日复一日的过着的。

　　18. The sentence in line 10 ("But... changing") serves primarily to 目的题/句子

　　(A) lament a situation

　　(B) introduce a contrast

　　(C) challenge a claim

　　(D) emphasize a desire

　　(E) reiterate a poin

　　分析：联系下文，下文表达，生活变化了，特别是后文表达自己的逐渐的变化和千万促成鲜明对比。

　　But my life was changing. I became taller and bigger, my second teeth grew in white and straight. At school I began to learn about my adopted country. I spoke English like a native, without a trace of an accent. I played, thought, and dreamed in the language of our Irvine neighbors. A few years later and I would no longer remember a time when I didn't speak their words and read their books. But my father and Uncle Yat still spoke the same halting English. My mother spoke only a few words. I began to translate conversations they had with the customers, switching between English and Chinese. Whenever I stepped outside the restaurant it seemed I was entering a world unknown to my family: school, church, friends' houses, the town beyond Main Street. I found it hard to imagine a year without winter any more, a home other than Irvine.