W: Almost five million people are married each year in the United States. About one in every eight of these weddings takes place in June, the traditional month for weddings. Getting married can be as simple as a five-minute ceremony performed by a judge in a law office. Or it can be a traditional religious ceremony at home, or in a church. The average age of an American woman being married for the first time is about twenty-four years. The average age for a man is twenty-five. Most young men and women get engaged about a year before the wedding. In the Nineteen-Sixties and Seventies, many young Americans decided not to have traditional, formal weddings. Many brides and grooms wrote their own wedding ceremonies. These often included poetry and personal statements about their goals in marriage. Some grooms wore old blue jeans to their weddings. More than a few brides were married in their bare feet. It was not unusual to be married on a sandy beach or on a mountainside. In the last
A. They wrote their own books to mark their wedding ceremonies.
B. They didn’t wear special clothes or went even without shoes.
C. They had their wedding ceremonies in a church or a law office.
D. They spent their honeymoons on a sandy beach or on a mountainside.
Social customs and ways are changing. Things which were considered (36) many years ago are now good. Just a few years (37) , it was considered impolite for a man (38) in the street. No man who thought (39) himself as being a gentleman would make a fool of himself by smoking (40) a lady was in the room.
Customs (41) change from country. Does a man walk (42) the left or the right of a lady in your country Or doesn’t it (43) What (44) table manners Should you use (45) hands when you eat Should you leave (46) in your lap (47) on the table
The important thing (48) about social costoms is not to do (49) that might make other pople (50) uncomfortable, especially if they are your guests. There is (51) old story about a rich nobleman who gave a very for real dinner party. When the food (52) ,one of the guests started
A. on
B. about
C. for
D. to
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