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Marriage Advertisements in India Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them quickly to a Sunday

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Marriage Advertisements in India Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them quickly to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian-the-columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives. This is relatively modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in "the wifely arts", information about her earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife. Divorce, which used to be almost unheard of in India, is sometimes now mentioned in the advertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in New Delhi newspaper explained that had been "the innocent party" when her marriage broke up. Because the custom of the dowry (marriage payment) is now illegal, some advertisements say "no dowry" or "simple marriage", which means the same thing. However, the fathers of many bridegrooms still require it. In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferable, many also require that a woman have a "wheat-color" complexion or that a man be "tall, fair and handsome". Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes, mostly in cities. Many of them receive dozens of answers."There's nothing embarrassing about it," explained a Calcutta businessman advertising a son-in-law. "It's just another way of broadening the contacts and increasing the possibility of doing the contacts and increasing the possibilities of doing the best one for one's daughter." Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here, one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad, especially in Canada or the United States. A person who has one can get what he wants. One recent Sunday in Madras, for example, a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for a "beautiful slim bride with lovely features knowing music and dance". And a man whose advertisement said that he held an American immigration permit was able to say, only girls from rich, well-connected families need apply. In India people with light skin and good feature are preferable.（）

  • A、Right
  • B、Wrong
  • C、Not mentioned
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相似问题和答案

第1题：

They ( ) every Sunday morning.

A、go to the church

B、go to church

C、go to a church

D、go church


参考答案：B

第2题：

The students’ phone offers its service_______

A．every morning during the work-days

B．every morning during the work—ends

C．four mornings a week

D．every other morning except Sunday


正确答案：D
文章中有“The service is available there three mornings a week at telephoneN0．330564…”可见答案应选D。

第3题：

Martin: Can you cover for me on Sunday? I'm supposed to teach the high school class. Lisa: Sure. ______ ? Martin: We're going to the beach for the weekend. Lisa: Well, don't worry. I'll take good care of Sunday school.

A．What's in

B．What's the thing

C．What's up

D．What's down


正确答案：C
解析：对话中，Lisa同意帮Martin的忙，接下来Martin解释说要去海滩度周末。可见 Lisa在前面可能问他去做何事。C．What's up? 在口语中常用来表示“你怎么了?”“有什么事?”符合题意。

第4题：

Many English boys go to boarding school at the age of seven.They usually （ ）quickly and are very happy.

A.get along
B.carry on
C.bring up
D.settle down

答案：D
解析：
本题考察固定搭配，题目意为“许多英国男孩七岁就上寄宿学校，他们通常很快安顿下来，非常快乐。”A选项意为“进展”，B选项意为“从事，继续下去”，C选项意为“抚养，培养”，D选项意为“安顿下来”。根据句意，应该选择D选项。
　　

第5题：

He suddenly returned__________a Sunday morning．

A.on
B.at
C.in
D.during

答案：A
解析：
暂无解析

第6题：

Tea drinking is very popular in China.It is frequently discussed in poems and novels and appears in paintings.Tea also plays an important role in Chinese daily life.It is a custom to make tea for guests.People like to drink tea when they get together.Young people show respect to their elders by offering a cup of tea.In the traditional Chinese marriage ceremony, both the bride and groom kneel in front of their parents and serve them tea as an expression of gratitude.

Tea drinking habits vary in different parts of China.People from different regions favour different types of tea.Tea drinking methods are also different.In the north of China, people like to drink tea with a bowl or a glass.Those in the south of China enjoy tasting tea with cultural tea sets.

Tea culture in China is very different from that of other countries.In the West, tea with sugar and milk may be served with desserts.An example of western tea culture is afternoon tea.Tea ceremonies also differ among eastern countries, such as the Japanese or Korean tea ceremony.

Decide each statement is T (true) or F (false) based on Passage A.

1.Making tea for guests is a western custom.

2.The bride and bridegroom kneel to serve tea to their parents in the modern Chinese marriage ceremony.

3.People in the north of China enjoy drinking tea with a bowl.

4.The westerners may drink tea served with sugar and milk.

5.Tea ceremonies among eastern countries are the same.


答案：FFTTF

第7题：

Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every clay.Some people subscribe to?as many as two or three different newspapers.But why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago,news of important happenings--battles lost and won,kings or rulers?overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another.The news?passed by word of mouth and was never accurate.Today we can read in our newspapers of important?events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world,newspapers give us a lot of other useful information.There are weather reports,radio,television and film guides,,book reviews,stories,and,of?course,advertisements.There are all sorts of advertisements.The bigger ones are put in by large?companies to bring attention to their products.They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their?advertising space,but′it is worth the money,for news of their products goes into almost every home?in the country.For those who produce newspapers,advertisements are also important.Money earned?from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make?a profit.

The phrase"subscribe to"in the second sentence of Para.1 means__

A.contribute to
B.write to
C.pay for receiving
D.appreciate

答案：C
解析：
【考情点拔】词语理解题。【疰试指导】文章第一段第一句提到，几乎每个家庭每天至少购买一份报纸。第二句接着讲到，有些人subscribe to多达两三份不同的报纸。由此可推断，subscribe to和第一句中的buy应为同义词．也就是“订阅”的意思，故选C。

第8题：

We went to the park ( ) the morning of last Sunday.

A、on

B、in

C、for

D、at


参考答案：A

第9题：

Almost every family buys at least one copy of a newspaper every clay.Some people subscribe to?as many as two or three different newspapers.But why do people read newspapers?
Five hundred years ago,news of important happenings--battles lost and won,kings or rulers?overthrown or killed--took months and even years to travel from one country to another.The news?passed by word of mouth and was never accurate.Today we can read in our newspapers of important?events that occur in faraway countries on the same day they happen.
Apart from supplying news from all over the world,newspapers give us a lot of other useful information.There are weather reports,radio,television and film guides,,book reviews,stories,and,of?course,advertisements.There are all sorts of advertisements.The bigger ones are put in by large?companies to bring attention to their products.They pay the newspapers thousands of dollars for their?advertising space,but′it is worth the money,for news of their products goes into almost every home?in the country.For those who produce newspapers,advertisements are also important.Money earned?from advertisements makes it possible for them to sell their newspapers at a low price and still make?a profit.

The money spent on advertisements is__________.

A.wasted
B.not much
C.worthwhile
D.of no use to anyone

答案：C
解析：
【考情点拨】事实细节题。【应试指导】文章第三段讲到，报纸中有各类广告．大公司花钱做广告是值得的（it is worth the?money）。因为“它们所经营产品的消息几乎能够进入全国的每一个家庭”。

第10题：

共用题干
Marriage Advertisements in India
Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers,just as Americans do.But here,with the marriage sea-son approaching,many of them quickly to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian-the-columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives.This is relatively modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage.The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society.For example,although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in“the wifely arts,”information about her earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements.This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.
Divorce,which used to be almost unheard of in India,is sometimes now mentioned in the advertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in New Delhi newspaper explained that had been“the innocent party” when her marriage broke up.
Because the custom of the dowry(marriage payment)is now illegal,some advertise-ments say“no dowry”,or“simple marriage”,which means the same thing.However,the fathers of many bridegrooms still require it.
In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferible,many also require that a woman have a“wheat-color” complexion or that a man be“tall,fair and handsome”.
Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes,mostly in cities.Many of them receive dozens of answers.“There's nothing embarrassing about it,”explained a Calcutta businessman advertising a son-in-law.“It's just another way of broadening the contacts and increase the possibility of doing the contacts and increasing the possibilities of doing the best one for one's daughter.”
Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here,one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad,especially in Canada or the United States.A person who has one can get what he wants.
One recent Sunday in Madras,for example,a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for a“beautiful slim bride with lovely features knowing music and dance.”And a man whose advertisement said that he held an American immigration permit was able to say, only girls from rich,well-connected families need apply.

Advertisements are only read by a small group of people of high social status.
A:Right
B:Wrong
C:Not mentioned

答案：B
解析：
题干中出现了绝对词only，由此判断该题干句陈述的意义可能过于绝对，也因此题干陈述的信息可能与短文中的相关信息不一致，因此该题答案可能为B。题干意为 “印度的婚姻广告只介绍妇女的外貌或妇女的贤惠”。利用题干中的名词及名词短语marriage advertisements, India, women, appearance, skill, a good wife作为定位线索，在短文中找到 相关句For example, although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in “the wifely arts,”information about her earning power is entering more and more of the ad-vertisements，相关句意为“尽管广告依然描述妇女的外貌或妇女的贤惠，关于妇女赚钱能力的介绍也在越来越多的婚姻广告上出现了”，显然相关句的内容与题干不一致。 该题涉及阅读题中的典型陷阱“以偏概全”。
题干意为“印度的社会正在发生着变化”。利用题干中的名词短语India's society作为定位线索，在短文第一段中找到相关句The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society（指印度的社会），该句意为“每周发布的数千条广告反映出这个传统的社会正发生着变化”。显然题干陈述的意义与短文中的相关信息一致。
题干意为“第三段中的‘dowry’一词意思是‘彩礼钱’”。dowry是超纲词。 首先找到dowry所在的句子Because the custom of the dowry(marriage payment) is now illegal,some advertisements say“no dowry”,or“simple marriage”,which means the same thing，在相关句中marriage payment出现dowry后面的括号中，应该是对dowry进行解释，由此判断dowry的含义就是marriage payment“彩礼钱”。
题干意为“在印度人们更偏爱肤色浅，容貌美丽的孩子”。利用题干中的名词及名词短语India, people, light skin, good feature作为定位线索，同时关注题干中的修饰 词light, good1 preferable，这样在短文中找到相关句In a land（指印度）where light skin is often regarded as socially preferable,many also require that a woman have a“wheat-color” complexion or that a man be “tall, fair and handsome（与good feature呼应）”。相关句意为 “在印度，人们更偏爱浅肤色，许多人也要求妇女有小麦肤色，要求男人个子高，皮肤白哲，长相英俊”，但并没有说“喜欢美丽的容貌”，短文中的相关内容没有提到孩子的情况，而整篇短文中都没有提到孩子，因此人们对孩子的外貌有什么样的期望是短文中没有提及的信息。
题干意为“‘A person who has one can get what he wants’中的‘one’指良好的吸引力”。首先找到A person who has one can get what he wants所在的上下文Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here,one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad,especially in Canada or the United States.A person who has one can get what he wants．划线句意为“有了……的人能得到他 想要的”，结合前句话的内容判断，one应该指前句中的permit to live abroad“在国外居住的许可证”。由此可见题干所说的one指代good attraction是不正确的，这与原文中的实际指代内容不一致，因此答案为B。
题干中出现了绝对词only，因此推测题干陈述的意义可能比较绝对，而且题干陈述的信息很可能与短文中的相关信息不一致，所以答案可能为B。题干意为“只有一小群来自上层社会的人读这些广告”。利用题干中的名词及名词短语advertisement, a small group of people of high social status作为定位线索，在第五段中找到相关句Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes（与people of high social status呼应）,mostly in cities，相关句意为“广告主要在城市里发布，上层社会中各种各样的人都会急切地想看这些广告”，这表明城市里还会有其他人也会看广告，而不是只有来自上层社会的人看广告。因此题干陈述的意义与原文中的相关内容不一致。
题干意为“印度的离婚率很高”。利用题干中的名词及名词短语India, high divorce rate作为定位线索，结果发现短文中根本没有提到离婚率，因此从原文中无法获得是否印度的离婚率高相关信息。

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