Sometimes while spending time in another country, we may have one experience that will reveal more about that country’s culture than all the other experiences we have there. I learned this last summer when I spent the month of July teaching English in Eger, a small town in Hungary. Toward the end of the month, the students decided to show their appreciation to their American teachers by hosting a picnic for us.      When the appointed evening arrived, we teachers awaited our student hosts in the lobby of Building B, the building used by Esterhazy Teachers College as language classrooms and living space for the foreign teachers. I was amazed to see that the entire class had come to escort us to the picnic. I was touched because the students did not own cars and had walked to Building B as they did each weekday for classes.      We walked with our hosts for approximately three miles through the back streets of Eger to a park adjacent to the ancient wineries for which Eger has been known for centuries. As we walked, I noticed that the students took care that the teachers were always in the company of one of more students. They showed a gracious interest in our impressions of Hungary and asked many questions about our lives in America. Periodically the students changed places so that all students and teachers conversed with one another on the way. They did this so unobtrusively that only in retrospect did I realize they had done so.      When we arrived at the park, I tried to hide my dismay. There were only a few well-worn picnic tables and no barbeque grills. How, I wondered, were the students going to cook the raw vegetables and meat they had brought with them? Someone mentioned building a fire. The students began gathering twigs, sticks, and dry leaves, and in what seemed to be a miraculously short time, one of the young men had a good cooking fire going. The young women cut the raw vegetables into pieces and cooked them on skewers with the chunks of beef. They served our dinner with a beverage they poured out of plastic two-liter bottles. I had assumed this beverage was a cola until I tasted it and found it was the students’ homemade wine. No waiter in a four-star restaurant could have been more gracious than any one of our student hosts. They refused to eat until all the teachers had been served.      As night fell, we again walked through the quiet streets of Eger, using a route that would take us past the homes of many of the students. As they entered their modest homes, we realized how much farther they had walked to meet us at Building B instead of going directly to the picnic site. These students had served us simple food, deliciously prepared, in a simple place, but never have I received greater hospitality.   Which sentence best states the main idea of this passage?

Sociologists define a minority group as a group

The 2000 Census was the first time that Americans were allowed to __________ when identifying their race.

  Race is defined by sociologists  

       When you think about people-watching, you usually envision the crowds at a mall or at a park, but most of the strangers you see who parade by you each day are not on foot. They’re in their cars. Although you can guess a lot about other people whom you see walking by—from observing their clothes, their behavior, or even their bearing—it is by their cars that you can tell the most about people that you’ve never seen.        Economic status can be accurately divined from the expense of the vehicle that people drive. That smooth gliding, huge new Towncar must have someone successful behind the wheel. That sporty utility vehicle, new but inexpensive, most likely is being driven by a college student. And that white, smoke belching, rusted-out jalopy you quickly pass to avoid asphyxiation—undoubtedly that driver can ill afford replacing the old junker and will soon have no wheels at all.        Political beliefs and community involvement often show up on bumper stickers, as do philosophies and religious affiliations, not to mention attitudes towards free speech and boundaries of good taste. Window decals and rearview mirror danglings denote cultural subgroups, while “Baby on Board” or “Caution” Show Dog” signs delineate the drivers’ personal commitments.        Momentary vehicular encounters can provide opportunities for psychoanalyzing drivers. The Type A sort who tailgates you or passes you dangerously close to the double line is either chronically late or running on caffeine or competitive aggression. The oh-so-polite people who wave everyone in ahead of you un bumper-to-bumper traffic must be similarly attentive to the needs of others in their lives. The chatty cell phone drivers must not be able to live very long in isolation without social interaction, gossip, or business dealings. And the oh-so-slow Sunday driver must be functioning on a different plane of meditation than the rest of us who proceed at the usual hasty pace.        External attachments can reveal hobbies and leisure interests—from bike racks to boat trailer hitches; if the drivers tote equipment, you can gauge how they spend their weekends and their disposable cash. But the easiest clue as to the driver’s identity comes in the form of an audio rather than a visual cue. If you’re waiting at a stoplight, and you feel the vibrations of the bass stereo from behind you, the driver is most likely under thirty years of age.        Some argue that the automobile has increased our sense of anonymity, our feeling that we are all alike—anonymous humanoids driving like robots in identical comfort capsules. Not me. As long as people can use their personal chariots as extensions of themselves and as billboards of self-expression, the driving experiences of our lives can tell us a lot about who else is out there, where they’re coming from—and even where everyone is going.   According to the passage, what can you learn about other drivers from bumper stickers and decals?

“I was touched because the students did not own cars and had walked to Building B as they did each weekday for classes.” (last sentence in paragraph 2)   The relationship of parts within the sentence above is

5. Identify the relationship between these two sentences in paragraph 3. “But browsers want more than books. Therefore, these stores stock a large variety of newspapers and magazines.”

As used in line 1 (paragraph 1), the word envision means

According to the passage, what are the examples of external attachments?

Genotype is to nature as phenotype is to nurture.