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听力原文：In the United States, couples usually receive gifts from their relatives and frie

听力原文： In the United States, couples usually receive gifts from their relatives and friends when they get married. Sometimes a bride will exchange a gift for something else if she doesn't find it useful. We give gifts to express our good wishes for the marriage, but gifts aren't necessary for the marriage itself. However, in some societies gifts are very important, and the marriage isn't legal without them. One type of gift is called bride service. A young husband must work for his wife's family. He may work for as long as fifteen years or until the third child is bom. Bride service may seem strange to us, but it is necessary in societies where people don't have money or material things to exchange at marriage.

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A．She will ask for another gift

B．She will exchange it for something useful

C．She will return it to the giver

D．She will just keep it

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第2题

听力原文：When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of peo

听力原文： When you take a walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people walking dogs. It is still true that dog is the most use fill and faithful animal in the world, but the reasons why people keep a dog have changed. In the old days people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks by other beasts. And later they came to realize that a dog was not only useful for protection but willing to obey his master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without permission. But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then？ Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery. But the most important reason is for companionship. For a child, a dog is his best friend when he was no friends to play with. For young couples, a dog is their child when they have no children. For old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection to friendship.

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A．For protection against other animals.

B．For protection against other dogs.

C．Just for fun.

D．For the purpose of guarding the house.

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听力原文：When you walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people wal

听力原文： When you walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people walking dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful and faithful animal in the world, but the reasons why people keep a dog have changed. In the past people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks by other beasts. And later they came to realize that a dog was not only useful for protection willing to obey his master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without masters' permission. But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then？ Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery. But the most important reason is for companionship. For a child, a dog his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For young couples, a dog their child if they have no children. For old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection to friendship.

According to the passage, what were dogs trained for in the past？

A．For protection against other animals.

B．For protection against other dogs.

C．Just for fun.

D．For the purpose of guarding the house.

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听力原文： When you walk in any of the cities in the West, you often see a lot of people wa

lking dogs. It is still true that a dog is the most useful and faithful animal in the world, but the reasons why people keep a dog have changed. In the past people used to train dogs to protect themselves against attacks by other beasts. And later they came to realize that a dog was not only useful for protection but willing to obey his master. For example, when people used dogs for hunting, the dogs would not eat what was caught without masters' permission. But now people in the city need not protect themselves against attacks of animals. Why do they keep dogs, then？ Some people keep dogs to protect themselves from robbery. But the most important reason is for companionship. For a child, a dog is his best friend when he has no friends to play with. For young couples, a dog is their child if they have no children. For old couples, a dog is also their child when their real children have grown up. So the main reason why people keep dogs has changed from protection to friendship.

According to the passage, what were dogs trained for in the past？

A．For protection against other animals.

B．For protection against other dogs.

C．Just for fun.

D．For the purpose of guarding the house.

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第5题

听力原文：In societies in which individuals choose their own partners, young people typical

听力原文： In societies in which individuals choose their own partners, young people typically dote before marriage. Dating is the process of spending time with future partners to become familiar with each other. Dates may take place in groups or between just two persons. When doting becomes more serious it may be called as engagement. Couples usually spend some period of time engaged before they marry. A woman who is engaged is known as the man's fiancee, and the man is known as the woman's fiance. Men will give an engagement ring to their fiancee as a symbol of the agreement to marry.

In the past, dating and engagement were special stages in the selection of a future husband or wife. Each stage represented an increasing level of promise and closeness. Although this remains true to some degree, since the 1960s these stages have tended to mix with one another.

In general, people tend to dote and many people with whom they have characteristics in common. Characteristics that couples tend to share include race, religion, economic status, age, and the social status of their parents.

In the United States, marital similarity has increased for some aspects and decreased for others in recent years. People seek partners who are from similar background. For example, an individual is more likely to many someone who has a similar mount of education. At the same time, Americans are less likely to require that the partners they want to marry have similar religion or social class. However, they still tend to marry someone of the same race. For instance, marriages between African Americans and whites make up less than 1 percent of all marriages in the United States.

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A．After they date with each other for some time.

B．When the couple decide to get married soon.

C．When the man gives the woman engagement ting.

D．When the man calls the woman his fiancee.

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第6题

听力原文：We are two couples with no children. We just want to spend the weekend in a quiet

place with fresh air to relax ourselves .... What else do we need？ Well, some real nice food, hot spring, some sports facilities like table tennis or bowling.

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第7题

听力原文：According to the passage，which of the following is NOT mentioned as an example of

changes in the modern society？

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A．Single parent.

B．Adults go back to live with their parents.

C．Old people share a house.

D．Married couples share a house.

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第8题

听力原文： W: Mr. Glieberman, do you see any change in the high rate of broken marriages？ M

听力原文： W: Mr. Glieberman, do you see any change in the high rate of broken marriages？

M: The divorce rate is beginning to level off and probably will begin to drop in the next year or two, though not significantly. The tight economy has made it more difficult for troubled couples to handle all the costs associated with setting up separate households. Also, I believe there's a comeback of thought—after the turbulent '60s and '70s—that the family does have value. In the midst of change and family disintegration, people seem to have a greater desire now to create stability in their lives.

W: What is the divorce rate now？

M: About 1 in 3 marriages ends in divorce, a ratio far higher than it was 20 years ago when the philosophy was "We'll tough it out no matter what. Society demands that, for appearances' sake, we stay together."

Divorce no longer carries much disgrace. There's no way, for example, that Ronald Reagan, a divorced man, could have been elected President in 1960. And there are countless other divorced politicians who years ago would have been voted out of office if they had even considered a divorce, let alone gotten one.

The same was true in the corporate structure, where divorced people rarely moved up the executive ladder. Now corporations welcome a divorced man, because they can shift him around the country without worrying about relocating his family or making certain that they are happy.

Which word best describes the lawyers' prediction of the change in divorce rate？

A．Fall

B．Rise

C．V-shape

D．Zigzag

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第9题

听力原文：W: I got an "A" on the test.M: So did I, but Joe got a "C". What did the woman ge

听力原文：W: I got an "A" on the test.

M: So did I, but Joe got a "C".

What did the woman get？

A．An "A" and a "C".

B．A "C".

C．An "A" and a "B".

D．An "A".

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第10题

听力原文：Once a social taboo, love across the color line is becoming increasingly common.

听力原文： Once a social taboo, love across the color line is becoming increasingly common. The number of interracial marriages in the U.S. has leaped almost 1,000% since 1967, when a landmark Supreme Court decision, Loving v. Virginia, voided state antimiscegenation laws that forbid unions between the races. Today there are more than 2 million interracial marriages, accounting for about 5% of all U.S. marriages, and almost half a million of them are between blacks and whites.

Yet even after the Loving decision, which required the state of Virginia to recognize the marriage between a white man and a black woman, Richard and Mildred Loving, the resistance to mixed nuptials in the South seemed to stay as firm as the reverence some there still have for the Confederate flag. It was only three years ago that Alabama became the last state to drop its unenforceable ban on mixed marriage, and it did so with just a 60%-to-40% vote by residents.

Of course, interracial intimacy has been a fact of life in the region since African slaves first arrived in the U.S.—and white slave owners like Thomas Jefferson began sneaking into the slave quarters at night. But what used to be branded clandestine lust has finally evolved into sanctioned love: black-white interracial marriages in Alabama have more than tripled, from 297 in 1990 to 1,000 in 2000, or about 2.5% of the married couples in the state. An additional 1% of Alabama marriages are unions also involving Asians, Latinos and Native Americans.

Which of the following is considered a landmark ruling in interracial marriages？

A．Loving v. Alabama.

B．Loving v. Virginia.

C．Loving v. U.S.

D．Loving v. Richard and Mildred.

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听力原文：When couples get married, they usually plan to have children. Sometimes, however,