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1D-00015绝密★启用前2018 年 4 月高等188宝金博页面版自学考试全国统一命题考试英语（二）试题（课程代码 00015）本试卷共 8 页，满分 100 分，考试时间 150 分钟。考生答卷前必须将自己的姓名和转考证号写在答题卡上。必须在答题卡上答题，试卷答题无效。一、阅读判断(共 1 题，合计 10 分)回答题Marriage Advertisements in IndiaEvery Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekendissues 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-col-umns of marriageadvertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives. This is relatively modernchange in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisementspublished each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. Forexample, 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. Thisreflects the arrival in India of the working wife.Divorce which used to be almost unheard of in India, is sometimes now mentioned in theadvertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in New Delhi newspaper explainedthat 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 manybridegrooms still require it. In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferablemany also require that a woman have a "wheatcolor" complexion or that a man be "tall, fair andhandsome". Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upperclasses, mostly in cities. Many of them receive dozens of answers. "There's nothing embarrassingabout it,'explained a Calcutta businessman advertising a son-in-law. "It's just another way ofbroadening the contacts and increasing the possibility of doing the contacts and increasing thepossibilities of doing the best one for one's daughter. "Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here,one of the bestattractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad, especially in Canada orthe United States. A person who has one can get what he wants. One recent Sunday in Madras, forexample, a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for a "beautiful slim bride withlovely features knowing music and dance". And a man whose advertisement said that he held anAmerican immigration permit was able to say, only girls from rich well-connected families needapply.