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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. About one month.
B. About half a year.
C. About one year.
D. About three months.

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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. About five million.
B. About two and a half million.
C. About one point eight million.
D. About six hundred and twenty-five thousand.

[单项选择]About ________cars and dogs are destroyed each year.
A. 6 million
B. 15 million
C. 30 million
D. 1 million

[单项选择]Fourteen-year-old Richie Hawley had spent five years studying violin at the Community School of Performing Arts in Los Angeles when he took part in a violin contest. Ninety-two young people were invited to the contest and Hawley came out first.
The contest could have been the perfect setup for fear, worrying about mistakes, and trying to impress the judges. But Hawley says "I did pretty well at staying calm. I couldn’t be thinking about how many mistakes I’d make--it would distract me from playing. "he says. "I don’t even remember trying to impress people while I played. It’s almost as if they weren’t there. I just wanted to make music."
Hawley is a winner. But he didn’t become a winner by concentrating on winning. He did it by concentrating on playing well.
"The important thing in the Olympic Games is not to win but to take part," said the founder of the modem Olympics, Pierre de Coubertin. "The important thing in life is not the triumph but the struggle. The esse
A. he tried his best to avoid making mistakes
B. he cared much about the judges’ feelings
C. he put all his mind to his performance
D. he paid close attention to the people around