- Marry, () - What do you want me to do?
A.can I help you?
B.will you do me a favor?
C.where are you?
A.can I help you?
B.will you do me a favor?
C.where are you?
W: That's great. Well, a drink to you and Cindy. Congratulations!
Q: What can we learn about the man?
(15)
A.He will say goodbye to Cindy.
B.He will drink with Cindy.
C.He will marry Cindy.
D.He has been with Cindy for three years.
1.();
A. women
B. parents
C. men
D. wives
2.();
A. to
B. in
C. on
D. of
3.();
A. young
B. double
C. remarried
D. single
4.();
A. this
B. that
C. it
D. which
5.();
A. to tell
B. tell
C. of telling
D. telling
In Western cultures, for example, people perceive silence as negative. It suggests rejection, unhappiness, facial expression, regret, embarrassment, or ignorance.
However, the Japanese admire silence and consider it a key to success. A Japanese proverb says, “Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.”
Over 60 percent of Japanese businesswomen said that they would prefer to marry silent men. Silence is equated with wisdom.
1. According to this passage, what does nonverbal communication include?()
A.The use of time
B.Facial expressions
C.Gestures
D.All of the above
2. What does a raised eyebrow mean?()
A.Your boss doubts your statement.
B.Your boss is seriously considering your statement.
C.Your boss is unhappy with your statement.
D.The message sent by the raised eyebrow may be interpreted differently by people of another culture.
3. What is the main idea of Paragraph One?()
A.Verbal communication is important.
B.Nonverbal skills are more difficult to learn amongdifferent cultures.
C.Nonverbal communication is easy to learn.
D.Verbal skills are easy to be mastered.
4. How do western people view silence?()
A.It is positive.
B.It is approved.
C.It suggests unhappiness.
D.It suggests agreement.
5. “Those who know do not speak; those who speak do not know.”What does this Japanese proverb imply?()
A.It is negative.
B.It suggests embarrassment.
C.It suggests unhappiness.
D.It is equated with wisdom.
Some nuclear families, however, may add one or more grandparents to come to live with them, that is three generations. This kind of family with grandparents, parents, and grandchildren is called an extended family. This family type was not very common during the later half of the twentieth century, but it's becoming more common now as an elderly grandparent moves in to live with a son or daughter. This is more possible now that American homes have become larger. What is interesting, however, is that after the grandchildren move out of the home and start their own families, this extended family shrinks back to a nuclear family, with just two generations again living together, a grandparent and parents, with the grandchildren coming only for occasional visits.
Now, the fatherless or motherless family is one kind of what we call a single-parent family. In the fatherless family it's just the mother and her children. As I said, this can be the result of the husband's death, of an unmarried mother, of a separation or divorce. There are also a growing number of motherless families--where the father raises the children, for any of the same reasons. A motherless family may also be fatherless, but still a family with one adult. This is becoming more common in the big cities where a grandmother will raise her daughter's children while the daughter goes elsewhere to work.
One other new kind of family is becoming increasingly more common. A single parent with one or more children will marry again. Perhaps the other parent is also a single parent. Together they will start what is called a blended family, which blends together or combines the children from two other families.
An extended family usually has ______.
A.two generations
B.three generations
C.four generations
D.one generation
Part A
Directions: Read the following four texts. Answer the questions below each text by choosing A, B, C or D. (40 points)
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: Relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, aster a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context: some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife's previous marriage, or the husband's, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses.
Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are step-fathers, step-mothers, half-brothers, and half-sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant: Most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
By calling Americans marrying people the author means that______.
A.Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B.Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C.there are more married couples in U. S. A than in Europe
D.more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
A.classify
B.sort
C.collect
D.organize
I' d rather marry a man who had a(n) ______ of humour than one who was very attractive.
A.capability
B.sight
C.knowledge
D.sense
A.I love you
B.I love you, and you love me
C.I will marry you if you love me enough
D.She is pretty