2021年西北工业大学网络教育英语试题（6）

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Passage One

A good marriage means growing as a couple but also growing as individuals.This isn’t easy, marriage has always been difficult. Why then are we seeing so many divorces at this time? Yes, our modern social fabric is thin, and yes the permissiveness of society has created unrealistic expectations and thrown the family into disorder. But divorce is so common because people today are unwilling to exercise the self-discipline that marriage requires. They expect easy joy, like the entertainment on TV, the thrill of a good party.

Marriage takes some kind of sacrifice, not dreadful self-sacrifice of the soul, but some level of compromise. Some of one’s fantasies, some of one’s legitimate desires have to be given up for the value of the marriage itself. “While all marital partners feel shackled （受束缚 ） at times, it is they who really choose to make the marital ties into confining chains or supporting bonds”, says Dr.Whitaker. Marriage requires sexual, financial and emotional discipline. A man and a woman cannot follow every impulse, cannot allow themselves to stop growing or changing.

A divorce is not an evil act. Sometimes it provides salvation（拯救）for people who have grown hopelessly apart or were frozen in patterns of pain or mutual unhappiness. Divorce can be like the first cut of the surgeon’s knife, a step toward new health and a good life. On the other hand, if the partners can stay past the breaking up of the romantic myths into the development of real love and intimacy, they have achieved a work as amazing as the greatest cathedrals（教堂） of the world. Marriages that do not fail but improve, that persist despite imperfections, are not only rare these days but offer a wondrous shelter in which the face of our mutual humanity can safely show itself.

31.According to the author,an ideal marriage life           .

A.requires considerable sacrifice on both partners

B.requires that the couple be emotionally involved

C.allows for the growth of the husband and wife as a couple and as two individuals

D.is only an illusion in today’s society

32.In Paragraph 2, the word “legitimate”most probably means .

A. lawful B. biological C. personal D. reasonable

33.In the author’s opinion, a divorce is not an evil act ______. A.if the marital life is imperfect

B.if it leads to a more worthwhile life for the two persons

C.if the couple later get married again and find real love

D.if the couple live far away from each other

34.The author believes the real cause for the increase of divorces today is that ______.

A.people have too many sources of entertainment

B.people have less internal restraints

C.people no longer enjoy family life as they did before

D.people do not want to be confined by marital ties

答案

31-34 C D B B

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