Choosing a husband or wife is one of the most important decisions in a person‘s life. In many cultures, young men and women are（21）to choose their own marriage partners. In some cultures, however, parents（22）he right to arrange their children‘s marriages. Such arranged marriages have both advantages and disadvantages.One advantage of having parents arrange a marriage is financial（23）. Of course, money doesn‘t automatically bring happiness,but a（24）of money certainly causes stress in any relationship. A second advantage of an arranged marriage is that parents may（25）a better choice than their children. They are not only older but also more（26）in life experience.Also,parents have been married; therefore, they know better what qualities are（27）in a spouse.On the other hand, arranged marriages may have some disadvantages. One obvious disadvantage is that parents may choose a wrong person in（28）, and the young couple may never be happy together. A second obvious disadvantage is that a young man or woman may already have（29）in love with someone else. If the parents force their children to tie the knot, the result will be a disaster to all concerned.In conclusion, neither an arranged marriage nor a marriage for love is a good（30）to be happy. Both kinds of marriages take work, patience, and perhaps a little bit of luck.A) dictate B) deserve C) make D) reserveE)charity F) formula G) security H) demandingI) daring J) fallen K)lack L) desirableM) available N) haste O) superior

第1题

Men and women have more choices today. For example, there are choices about marriage. People can decide whether to get married or not. Women who have good jobs need not depend on their husbands, so the traditional idea that marriage is the most important job of a woman's life is changing.

There are more choices about children, too. Many working wives can decide whether and when, if they want, to have children. And they don't want to give up work even if they have a child.

Perhaps the most important difference today is that so many women work even after they get married.Today most women in Britain without a job either have very young children or are very old.Over half of all married women now have a job, and women as a whole make up over one third of the British work force. This has changed marriage; when people get married, the husband and wife have very different role from, say, fifty years ago. If both husband and wife work, the woman will expect to be equal with her husband.For example, many young husbands are now ready to take their share in doing the housework and looking after the children. And the husband no longer expects to make all the important decisions himself. His wife will, for example, share in decision about money. In some cases the husband wants to stay at home and take care of the children, but usually it is because he cannot find a job.In this case, the wife makes the money for the family, and takes on the traditional male role.

1. The sentence “the traditional idea that marriage is the most important job of a woman's life is changing” refers to the belief that（）.

A、marriage is very important in a woman's life

B、to be married is important for a woman to get a job

C、a woman's life is changed after her marriage

D、women are becoming less dependent on her marriage

2. In the British work force today,（）.

A、over one third is formed of women

B、more than half is formed of married women

C、there are more women than men

D、there are fewer unmarried women than married women

3. Which of the following statement about the past is NOT true according to the passage?（）

A、The husband usually made important decisions by himself.

B、The husband was more ready to help with the housework.

C、The wife hardly had her share in making important decisions.

D、The wife took care of the children and did most of the housework.

4. Sometimes, the wife makes money for the family. This is because（）.

A、the wife wants to take on the traditional male role

B、the husband can take better care of the children

C、the husband is out of job

D、the wife likes to live a new life

5. What is the main idea of this passage?（）

A、Women's social position has been much improved.

B、Women take a main role in modern families.

C、Men and women's roles in the family have changed.

D、Women have more choices to make today.

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第2题

"Family" is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is b

ased on family life, they are thinking of "family" in its narrow, peculiarly European sense of mother, father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus, every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family--hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman, marriage means leaving one’s parents and starting one’s own life. The man’s first duty will then be to his wife, and the wife’s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support, and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife’s parents nor the husband’s, nor their brothers or sisters, aunts or uncles, have any right to interfere with them they are their own masters.

Readers of novels like Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl’s parents, that is, it was the parents’ duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter, preferably a rich one, and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time, the girl was protected and maintained in the parents’ home, and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry. It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results. A girl chooses her own husband, and she gets no dowry.

What does the author mean by" family is of course an elastic word"？ ()

A．Different families have different ways of life.

B．Different definitions could be given to the word.

C．Different nations have different families.

D．Different times produce different families.

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第3题

Mary set off on Sunday on a 4,500-mile journey to visit her husband,Daniel.Against their will,she and Daniel are forced to live in different continents.The reason:Mary is one of hundreds of British wives who are victims of a law which prevents their foreign husbands joining them in their country.This law makes it almost impossible for a British woman to marry a foreigner - unless she is prepared to live in her husband' s native country.But the law,which was intended to reduce the number of immigrants coming into the UK,does not apply to the British male who marries a foreign woman.He can bring her to live with him in this country."I cannot understand why there is this discrimination (歧视) against women“,she says."After all,I pay the same taxes as a man.In the eyes of the law,women are second-class citizens" Before she leaves finally to make her home in the USA,she is determined to campaign for the reform of the law."I feel very strongly that if it is the last thing I do before I have to live in America,it should for this cause."

1.What country did Mary leave for on Sunday?

A.The United States.

B.The United Kingdom.

C.The passage doesn't tell us.

2.Why do Mary and her husband live in different places? Because（）.

A.they are reluctant to live together

B.the British law does not permit Daniel to join his wife in her country

C.Daniel' s country does not allow him to join his wife in her country

3.What is the purpose of the law?

A.It is intended to reduce the number of travelers.

B.It is intended to reduce the number of foreigners.

C.It is intended to reduce the number of immigrants.

4.According to the passage,（）for English women to marry foreigners.

A.it is legal

B.it is illgal

C.it is impossible

5.According to the passage,most probably？

A.Mary will settle sown in the USA in the future

B.Mary and Daniel will live separately in the future

C.Mary and Daniel will get divorced in the future

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第4题

阅读理解Betty and Harold have been married for years.But one thing still puzzles old H

arold.How is it that he can leave Betty and her friend Joan sitting on the sofa, talking, go out to a ballgame, come back three and a half hours later, and they’re still sitting on the sofa, talking？

What in the world, Harold wonders, do they have to talk about？

Betty shrugs.Talk？ We’re friends.

Researching this matter called friendship, psychologist Lillian Rubin spent two years interviewing more than two hundred women and men.No matter what their age, their job, their sex, the results were completely clear.Women have more friendships than men, and the difference in the content and the quality of those friendships is “marked and unmistakable”.

More than two-thirds of the single men Rubin interviewed could not name a best friend.Those who could were likely to name a woman.Yet three-quarters of the single women had no problem naming a best friend, and almost always it was a woman.More married men than women named their wife/husband as a best friend, most trusted person, or the one they would turn to in time of emotional distress(情感危机).“Most women,” says Rubin, “identified at least one, usually more, trusted friends to whom they could turn in a troubled moment, and they spoke openly about the importance of these relationships in their lives”.

“In general,” writes Rubin in her new book, “women’s friendships with each other rest on shared emotions and support, but men’s relationships are marked by shared activities.” For the most part, Rubin says , interactions (交往) between men are emotionally controlled—a good fit with the social requirements of “manly behavior”.

“Even when a man is said to be a best friend,” Rubin writes, “the two share little about their innermost feelings.Whereas a woman’s closest female friend might be the first to tell her to leave a failing marriage, it wasn’t unusual to hear a man say he didn’t know his friend’s marriage was in serious trouble until he appeared one night asking if he could sleep on the sofa.”

6.What old Harold cannot understand or explain is the fact that() .

A.he is treated as an outsider rather than a husband

B.women have so much to share

C.women show little interest in ballgames

D.his wife is difficult to talk to

7.Rubin’s study shows that for emotional support a married woman is more likely to turn to ().

A.a male friend

B.a female friend

C.her parents

D.her husband

8.According to the text, which type of behavior. is NOT expected of a man by society？()

A.Ending his marriage without good reason.

B.Spending too much time with his friends.

C.Complaining about his marriage trouble.

D.Going out to ballgames too often.

9.Which of the following statements is best supported by the last paragraph？()

A.Men keep their innermost feeling to themselves.

B.Women are more serious than men about marriage.

C.Men often take sudden action to end their marriage.

D.Women depend on others in making decisions.

10.The research done by psychologist Rubin centers on() .

A.happy and successful marriage

B.friendships of men and women

C.emotional problems in marriage

D.interactions between men and women

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第5题

Concerning money or anything else, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect

a power straggle. Conflicts between parent and child often center around the same issue. As children enter adolescence, they begin to demand greater freedom to go where they please, do what they please, and make decisions without parental interference. Many American parents do not know how to deal with their teenagers and seek advice from books, lectures, and parent gaining courses. Parents want to maintain a friendly relationship with their teenagers and also want to guide them so that their behavior. will be whatever the parents consider proper and constructive.

But in a society of rapidly changing social and moral values, parents and children often disagree about what is important and what is fight.

(77) Arguments may concern such unimportant matters as styles of dress or hairdos. But quarrels may also concern school work, after school jobs, decisions, use of the family car, dating, and sex behavior. Some families have serious problems with teenagers who drop out of school, run away from home, or use illegal drugs. Because so much publicity is given to the problem teenager, one gets the impression that all teenagers are troublemakers. Actually, relatively few adolescents do anything wrong, and nearly all grow up into "solid citizens" who fulfill most of their parents' expectations. In fact, recent studies show that the "generation gap" is narrowing. The vast majority of teenagers share most of their parents' values and ideas. Many parents feel that they get along with their adolescents quite well.

According to the writer, conflicts between husband and wife usually reflect ______.

A．feeling of hatred

B．power struggle

C．that they don' t care for each other

D．that they may appeal to divorce

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第6题

Nowadays，a husband tends to__________ ．A.play a greater part in looking after the children

Nowadays，a husband tends to__________ ．

A.play a greater part in looking after the children

B.help his wife by doing most of the housework

C.feel dissatisfied with role in the family

D.take a part．time job so that he can help in the home

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第7题

Who does the writer usually live with（).

A、Soren and his wife and child.

B、Her husband and children.

C、Her parents.

D、No one, she lives alone.

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第8题

The most fundamental group to which a person belongs is the family. The institution of the family exists in almost every

The most fundamental group to which a person belongs is the family. The institution of the family exists in almost every human culture. It is considered by behavioral scientists to be one of the oldest institutions in human history.

The family unit serves many important functions. The performance of these functions is he reason for the family's importance. Above all , the family serves as a mechanism of species survival (生存，幸存) .

Families also have important economic functions. In primitive societies, the tasks of gathering food and providing shelter were divided among family members. Today, both husband and wife may work and share the duties of homemaking and child rearing.

In addition to its survival and economic functions, the family gives its members social status. In many societies, a person is not considered a complete member until he has married and produced children. Finally, the family helps to meet the basic emotional needs of a person through the love and support received from parents, siblings (兄弟姐妹)， and relatives.

21. Which of the following best states the main idea of the passage？ ____________.

A. The family has changed greatly over time

B. Many of the functions of the family today are being performed by government agencles

C. The most important role for the family is to gather food

D. The family has served many useful functions throughout history

22. According to the passage, which of the following is an example of the role of the family in giving status？____________.

A. A child is taught to respect his elders

B. A couple work for several years to save for the purchase of a home

C. A politician makes a campaign commercial with his family

D. A mother comforts a child after he skins his knees

23. It can be concluded from the passage that the family is ____________.

A. undergoing many changes

B. the only useful social institution

C. likely to exist in future societies

D. not the same today as it was in the past

24. As it is used in the second paragraph of the passage, the word "mechanism" means ____________.

A. parts of an organism or system which work together

B. racial group united by language, religion, custom, etc.

C. the people living in one place, district or country, considered as a whole

D. a worker skilled in using or repairing machines or tools

25. Based on the information in the passage, you can infer that the passage is 一一一一一一·

A. about the family's mechanism of species survival

B. about the social, economic, and emotional usefulness of family throughout human history

C. about duties of the family shared by both husband and wife

D. about the emotional needs received from parents, siblings, and relations

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第9题

The other problem that arises from the employment of women is that of the working wife. It

has two aspects: that of the wife who is more of a success than her husband and that of the wife who must rely heavily on her husband for help with domestic tasks. There are various ways in which the impact of the first difficulty can be reduced. Provided that husband and wife are not in the same or directly comparable lines of work, the harsh fact of her greater success can be obscured by a genial conspiracy to reject a purely monetary measure of achievement as intolerably crude. Where there are ranks, it is best if the couple work in different fields so that the husband can find some special reason for the superiority of the lowest figure in his to the most elevated in his wife's.

A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to re-allocate domestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier George Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields! "Practically never...in a working-class home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever—more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as my experience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if. merely because he was out of work, he developed in a 'Mary Ann'".

It is over the care of young children that this re-allocation of duties becomes really significant. For this, unlike the cooking of fish fingers or the making of beds, is an inescapably time-consuming occupation, and time is what the fully employed wife has no more to spare of than her husband.

The male initiative in courtship is a pretty indiscriminate affair, something that is tried on with any remotely plausible woman who comes within range and, of course, with all degrees of tentativeness. What decides the issue of whether a genuine courtship is going to get under way is the woman's response. If she shows interest the engines of persuasion are set in movement. The truth is that in courtship society gives women the real power while pretending to give it to men.

What does seem clear is that the more men and women are together, at work and away from it, the more the comprehensive amorousness of men towards women will have to go, despite all its past evolutionary services. For it is this that makes inferiority at work abrasive and, more indirectly, makes domestic work seem unmanly, if there is to be an equalizing redistribution of economic and domestic tasks between men and women there must be a compensating redistribution of the erotic initiative. If women will no longer let us beat them they must allow us to join them as the blushing recipients of flowers and chocolates.

Paragraph One advises the working wife who is more successful than her husband to______.

A．work in the same sort of job as her husband

B．play down her success, making it sound unimportant

C．stress how much the family gains from her high salary

D．introduce more labour-saving machinery into the home

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第10题

完型填空One night, a thief broke into an old man's house. He ___1___ a noise and woke up the old man and his wife. The husband told his wife to be silent, while he said loudly, "My dear, these days thieve

完型填空One night, a thief broke into an old man's house. He ___1___ a noise and woke up the old man and his wife. The husband told his wife to be silent, while he said loudly, "My dear, these days thieves are cleverer. If they take ___2___ their clothes and put them on the table, the people in the room will fall asleep and can't wake up." When the thief ___3___this, he took off his clothes at once and was ready to set out to work. At this___4___, the husband suddenly shouted in a loud voice:"Stop thief! Stop thief!" The thief was very frightened. He ran away as fast as be could and ___5___ his clothes on the table.

1.A：made B：moment C：off D：left E：heard

2.A：made B：moment C：off D：left E：heard

3.A：made B：moment C：off D：left E：heard

4.A：made B：moment C：off D：left E：heard

5.A：made B：moment C：off D：left E：heard

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第11题

__, the wife of Yellow Emperor, is said to be one of the two most important deities of silkworms.

A、Chang’e

B、Nvwa

C、Changxi

D、Luozu

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