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篇章結構題組：第 11 題至第 15 題請依文意從四個選項中選出最合適者，答案選用不能重複。 Few practices are as widespread among human cultures as the ceremonial wedding of a woman and a man.Individual impulses to ensure the survival of one’s genes mesh with society’s desire to establish family units. Thismay all sound very unromantic, but marriage is serious business—much too serious, some might say, to be left toextremely young men and women. Surely the elders know best. 11 The basics of matchmaking are simple.After collecting information about marriageable men and women, a matchmaker decides which would be a goodmatch. Sometimes the matchmaker represents the male or his family and therefore assesses available females. 12 Instill other cases, the matchmaker is an independent judge, representing neither side but hoping to make a choice thatwill satisfy both. We’ve already hinted at one motivation for matchmaking—the belief that the people getting married are too youngto make a wise decision. 13 Even with older teens or people in their early 20s, a society might encouragematchmaking in the belief that young people, blinded by the sexual attractiveness of a potential mate, cannot shrewdlychoose someone who could make a good lifelong partner after the beauty of youth fades away. In the main, matchmaking has historically worked to preserve the integrity of certain social groups and prevent theweakening of the group by intrusion from outsiders. 14 The Hindu caste system specifies distinct social roles forpeople based on their ancestry, a system that would become hopelessly confused if young people married freelybetween castes. Matchmaking, usually by the elder women of families looking to arrange a marriage, was a mechanismfor ensuring that caste boundaries were observed.15 Countless religious websites and church organizations aim to keep Catholics, Muslims Muslim, JewsJewish, or Baptists Baptist by making it easier for them to meet and marry others of the same religion.
【題組】11
(A) This is the impulse behind the age-old practice of matchmaking.
(B) Sometimes the matchmaker represents the female side and looks at available males.
(C) Few communities in highly-mobile societies could sustain an arranged-marriage system anymore.
(D)Modern group-maintenance matchmaking still occurs in many cultures, but it usually has less to do with socialcaste than with other affiliations, such as religion or ethnicity.
參考答案
答案：A
難度：非常簡單1
統計：A(1),B(0),C(0),D(0),E(0)