Which of the following excerpts best illustrates that assimilation is a natural phenomenon: O "Elvis Presley goes in your ear, and you cannot get Elvis Presley out of your mind".
O "I am not in favor of assimilation any more than I am in favor of the Pacific Ocean..."
O "One doesn't walk down the street and decide to be 40 percent Mexican and 60 percent American."
O “I am in favor of assimilation. I'm not in favor of assimilation"

Read the excerpt from "mother tongue." those tests were constructed around items like fill-in-the-blank sentence completion, such as “even though tom was mary thought he was ” and the correct answer always seemed to be the most bland combinations of thoughts, for example, “even though tom was foolish, mary thought he was ridiculous.” well, according to my mother, there were very few limitations as to what tom could have been and what mary might have thought of him. so i never did well on tests like that. how does tan build a central idea of her story in the excerpt? tan discusses the types of questions on achievement tests to support the idea that the tests limit students’ ability to write well. tan explains a question on a language achievement test to support the idea that the tests should include more interesting content. tan gives an example of her experience with achievement tests to support the idea that they are not always accurate measures of language ability. tan considers how her mother might answer a question on a test to support the idea that nonstandard english limits a person’s ability to communicate.