59. Immigrant groups, when they got settled down in the United States, still have had their own sense of self-identity because
　　A. their foods are easily identified among all the foods Americans eat.
　　B. their foods stand out in sharp contrast to foods of other countries.
　　C. they know pretty well what elements of the American food are of their own countries' origin.
　　D. they know pretty well how their foods contribute to American cuisine.

　　60. Which of the following statements is true?
　　A. People from other cultures or nations start to lose their self-identity once they get settled down in America.
　　B. The "melting pot" is supposed to melt all the foods but in reality it doesn't.
　　C. The special sense of self-identity of people from other countries can't maintain once they become Americans.
　　D. The "melting pot" finds it capable of melting all the food traditions into the American tradition.

　　Questions 61-64 are based on the following passage.
　　"It's like being bitten to death by ducks." That's how one mother described her constant squabbles with her eleven-year-old daughter. And she's hardly alone in the experience. The arguments almost always involve mundane matters - taking out the garbage, coming home on time, cleaning up the bedroom. But despite its banality, this relentless bickering takes its adolescents - particularly mothers - report lower levels of life satisfaction, less marital happiness, and more general distress than parents of younger children. Is this continual arguing necessary?
　　For the past two years, my students and I have been examining the day-to-day relationships of parents and young teenagers to learn how and why family ties change during the transition from childhood into adolescence. Repeatedly, I am struck by the fact that, despite considerable love between most teens and their parents, they can't help sparring. Even in the closest of families, parents and teenagers squabble and bicker surprisingly often - so often, in fact, that we hear impassioned recountings of these arguments in virtually every discussion we have with parents or teenagers. One of the most frequently heard phrases on our interview tapes is, "We usually get along but …"
　　As psychologist Anne Petersen notes, the subject of parent-adolescent conflict has generated considerable controversy among researchers and clinicians. Until about twenty years ago, our views of such conflict were shaped by psychoanalytic clinicians and theorists, who argued that spite and revenge, passive aggressiveness and rebelliousness toward parents are all normal, even healthy, aspects of adolescence. But studies conduct

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