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[填空题]Mary is the ______ (bright) of the two girls.
[单项选择]Passage Two
Nancy Bright and her husband john had been working overtime and saving for a long time so that they could pay the advance for Nancy’s dream house. Today was the day that they had enough money in hand to make a down payment on the house, But the real estate (房地产）agent informed them that she had received another offer for the house. Although the other offer was slightly less than that of Nancy and john’s, that person with the new offer was willing to pay the whole amount at once. The owner, in urgent need of money, wanted to accept the second offer.
Nancy and john looked at each other with disappointed looks. They walked back home feeling very low about having lost the house. Soon they recovered and involved themselves into their daily lives, though once in a while Nancy would sink into a mild depression over losing the house.
One day Nancy woke up in the morning feeling even lower than usual. She kept feeling sick, even lost interest in her routine coffee. She
A. They couldn’t pay the whole amount for the house at once
B. Someone else offered move money for the house.
C. They couldn’t afford the advance for the house.
D. The house owner decided not to sell the house.
[单项选择]Passage Two
Dr. Mary Jo Bane is the associate director of the Center for Research on Women. Her recent study found “surprising evidence of the persistence of American commitments to family life”, which cast doubt on some common myths about American family.
Myth 1: The American Family is Dying Because of the Soaring Divorce Rate.
According to Dr. Bane’s study, the American family is changing, not dying. It is becoming smaller and the divorce rate is high. But Dr. Bane says that despite the high divorce rate, marriage has never been more popular. The majority of divorced people re-marry, but only 2%marry more than twice. Most marriages last a long time, and a large proportion of divorces are from teenage marriages. Depending on the specific situation, there’s often good reason for teenage marriages to break up.
Myth 2: Working Mothers are Destroying the Family by Neglecting Their Children.
“There’s no evidence that children receive less attention from mothers who
A. Divorced people never consider a second marriage.
B. Teenage couples often divorce out of no reason.
C. Less and less people plan to get married.
D. Very few people have a third or fourth marriage.
