Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States

Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States, but divorce(离婚) is becoming_1_as“popular”.Most American people get married, _2_,at the present time, and fifty percent of American marriages end _3_ divorce. However, four out of five divorced people do not _4_ single. They get married a second time to _5_ partners. Sociologists(社会学家)tell us that in the next century, _6_American people will marry three _7_ four times in one lifetime. Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist, _8_this new social form serial(连续的)marriages. In his book Future Shock, Toffler gives many _9_ for this change in American marriage. In modern society, _10_ lives don't stay the same for very long.Americans_11_ change their jobs, their homes, and their circles of _12_So,the person who was a _13_ husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years _14_After some years of marriage, a husband and wife can _15 _that their lives have become very different, and they don't 16the same interests anymore. For this reason, Toffler says, people in the twenty first century will not _17_ to marry only one person for an _18_ lifetime. They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years, and then marry _19_.Most Americans will expect to have a “marriage carrier”that _20_ three or four marriages.

1. A. already B. almost C. ever D. even

2. A. anyway B. then C. but D. therefore

3. A. with B. from C. in D. for

4. A. live B. take C. make D. stay

5. A .new B. old C. young D. pretty

6. A. most B. main C. few D. mostly

7. A. and B. by C. or D. to

8. A. asks B. calls C. tells D. lets

9. A. causes B. chances C. problems D. reasons 10. A. human's B. people's C. person's D. man's 11. A. frequently B. quickly C. rapidly D. fast 12. A. parents B. classmates C. neighbors D. friends

13. A. polite B. strict C. good D. unfriendly 14. A. late B. latter C. lately

D. later 15. A. imagine B. feel C. believe D. suppose 16. A. enjoy B. hold C. divide D. share 17. A. desire B. plan C. wish D. design 18. A. entire B. extreme C. total D. whole 19. A. the other B. others C. other D. another 20.

A. appears

B. happens

C. includes

D. carries

Mrs. Jones was over eighty, but she still drove her old car like a woman half her age. She loved driving very fast, and was proud of the fact ??1? ?she had never, in her thirty-five years of driving, been punished ??2? ?a driving offence (犯规，犯法).Then one day she nearly ??3? ?her record. A police car ??4? ?her, and the policemen in it saw her ??5? ?a red light without stopping. Of course, she was stopped. It seemed ??6? ?that she would be punished. 7? ?Mrs. Jones came up to the judge, he looked at her seriously and said that she was ??8? ?old to drive a car, and that the ??9? ?why she had not stopped at the red ??10? ?was most probably that her eyes had become weak ??11? ?old age, so that she had simply not seen it. When the judge had finished what he was ??12, Mrs. Jones opened the big handbag she was ??13? ?and took out her sewing. Without saying a word, she ??14? ?a needle with a very small eye, and threaded it at her first attempt. When she had ??15? ?done this, she took the thread out of the needle again and handed ??16? ?the needle and the thread to the judge, saying, “Now it is your ??17. I suppose you drive a car, and that you are quite sure abou t your own eyesight.”The judge took the ??18? ?and tried to thread it. After half a dozen tries, he had still not succeeded. The case (案例) against Mrs. Jones was ??19, and her record ??20? ?unbroken.

1. A. whichB. whenC. thatD. this

2. A. aboutB. onC. toD. for

3. A. keptB. wonC. missedD. lost

4. A. watchedB. afterC. followed D. ran after

5. A. passB. goC. runD. rush

6. A. sureB. indeedC. certainD. perhaps

7. A. BeforeB. WhileC. UntilD. When

8. A. soB. veryC. tooD. quite

9. A. causeB. reasonC. matterD. trouble 10. A. lightB. lampC. sign D. one 11. A. withB. because C. forD. of 12. A. speakingB. sayingC. talkingD. telling 13. A. holdingB. gettingC. carryingD. bringing 14. A. tookB. brought C. pickedD. chose 15. A. almostB. hardlyC. successfullyD. successful 16. A. bothB. allC. neitherD. either 17. A. timeB. turnC. chanceD. job 18. A. threadB. glasses C. needlesD. needle 19. A. dismissed B. passedC. settledD. studied 20. A. wasB. kept C. seemedD. remained

When did you last see a polar bear(北极熊）?On a trip to a zoo,perhaps?If you had attended a winter activity in New York a few years ago,you would have seen a whole polar bear club.These "Polar Bears" are people who meet frequently in the winter to swim in freezing cold water.That day,the air