NCSA, which employs 200 people and has a yearly budget of US $ 31 million, is expected to be one of two winners along with its counterpart in San Diego.ª¥ 

¡°The University has put a great deal of effort into this competition. We r emain hopeful about the outcome, but we will have no comment until the National Science Foundation Board¡¯s decision,¡± Smart said.ª¤ 

TEXT J 

First read the questions.ª¤ 

37. In Japanese the work depato refers to ___.ª¤ 

A. traditional Japanese stores 

B. modern stores in citiesª¤ 

C. special clothing stores 

D. railway storesª¤ 

38. During the Meiji era depato was regarded by Japanese customers as a(n ) ___ shopping place.ª¤ 

A. cheap B. traditional C. fashionable D. attractiveª¤ 

Now go through TEXT J quickly to answer questions 37 and 38.ª¥ 

The Japanese have two words for the modern department stores that abound in large urban areas. The older word, hyakkaten, which is seldom used in daily spee ch, can usually be found engraved in ideographs in a building cornerstone, and i t is part of a store¡¯s official rifle. Literally ¡°a store with one hundred ite ms ,¡± this word was coined during the late Meiji era( 1868 - 1912), when clothing s tores began to expand their product lines and railroads began to build shops at , major train crossings. The more recent and more commonly used word is depato (fr om the English ¡®department store¡¯ ). ª¥  

These words reflect the dual nature of Japanese department stores. Words wr itten in ideographs can impart an aura of antiquity and tradition. Frequently, a s in the case of the word hyakkaten, they suggest indigenous origin. In contrast , foreign borrowed words often give a feeling of modernity and foreignness. Many Japanese department stores actually originated in Japan several hundred years a go as dry goods stores that later patterned themselves after foreign department stores. Even th