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Many people say that e-mail is just a faster way to deliver letters. The fact is that letter writing and e-mail are completely different processes. Handwritten or typed, letters travel in envelopes through actual space and take time getting from one place to another.  41  . If I am writing on paper to my brother in Kenya, I will be less likely to complain about the breakfast I had this morning. I will probably write about my relationships and some things that I’ve been thinking about.  42   People tend to regard letters as important. My brother might save my letter; he might read it back to me years from now.

  43   It is instant, traveling from point to point. If you don’t print it out, the message doesn’t physically exist. With e-mail, geography is no obstacle and time is not important.  44   The ease of this kind of writing and sending probably makes for a different kind of communication. I can complain about the breakfast I had this morning or rattle on about friends and movies. That is because I am not so focused on style and profundity.  45   My brother might glance at my mail, have a laugh, and then delete it.

(A) E-mail is different.

(B) The downside is, I might be less likely to say something deeper.

(C) The time and distance, as a matter of fact, influence the letter-writer.

(D) I can zap a message to Kenya whenever I want to, and it gets there almost in a second.

(E) I will also take more care with my style, trying to write in a way that is interesting and worth reading.

   

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With one out of every two American marriages ending in divorce, custody of children has become an issue in the American society. Up until the late 1970s, it had been common practice in the United States to automatically  31   custody to the mother when a divorce occurred.

However, since the 1970s, this practice has been  32   . Most custody battles today are decided, in theory, on the basis of who is the more fit parent for the child. The reality, nevertheless, is that most women still win custody of their children in a  33  .

This legal change was the result of the social changes that  34   in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s. These changes challenged many of the  35   roles men and women were expected to play. As a  36  , it is not uncommon nowadays to find women working outside their homes and being very  37   about their careers and personal lives. It is also not  38   to see men accepting roles that were once considered the exclusive domain of women, such as shopping for groceries, driving their children to and from school, or cleaning their homes.

Because of the  39   in the divorce rate, the change in the roles that men and women are expected to play, and the changing attitude of the judicial system toward child custody, more men have started to  40   for and win custody of their children when divorce occurs.

(A) award       (B) challenged        (C) concerned     (D) consequence

(E) divorce       (F) fight                (G) increase      (H) took place    

(I) traditional         (J) unusual

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