19. The primary purpose of the second paragraph (lines 10-24) is to 目的题/段落

　　(A) provide insight into the motivations of the narrator's parents and uncle

　　(B) recapture the pleasure the narrator experienced in learning a new language

　　(C) emphasize the extent of the transformation the narrator undergoes

　　(D) describe the complex interrelationships in the narrator's family

　　(E) reveal the narrator's preference for a cold climate over a warm one

　　分析：作者在此段表达，自己慢慢的逐步改变，逐步融入新的文化里。

　　For my mother, though, home would always be China. In Irvine she lived among strangers, unable to speak their language. Whenever she talked about happy times, they were during her childhood in that distant land. A wistful smile would soften her face as she told me about sleeping and playing with her sister in the attic above her parents' bedroom. She once showed me a piece of jade-green silk cloth that was frayed and worn around the edge. In the center was a white lotus floating in varying shades of blue water, the embroidery so fine that when I held it at arm's length the petals looked real. I had been helping her store away my summer clothes in the brown leather suitcase from Hong Kong when I noticed a piece of shiny material in the corner and asked her what it was. She look it out and spread it on her lap. "My mother embroidered this herself. I was going to have it made into a cushion, but then my life changed and over here there seems to be no place for lovely things. It's all I have that reminds me of her," she said. "Maybe, Su-Jen, one day you will do something with it." I admired the cloth some more, then she carefully folded it and stored it back in her suitcase.

　　20. The sentence in line 25 ("For ... China") serves to 目的题

　　(A) introduce a key idea developed later in the passage

　　(B) initiate a brief digression from the story line

　　(C) illustrate a generalization made in the previous paragraph

　　(D) point to a situation analogous to one experienced by the narrator

　　(E) foreshadow an unexpected incident