[单项选择]Passage Four

How Honest Communication Can Save Your Marriage

Throughout my career as a marriage coach and a marriage and family therapist, the number one issue voiced by most couples is "we have trouble communicating." It’s a common complaint. And many couples think they would benefit from communication training.
Many seem to think if they could better express themselves or if their spouse would only listen and understand what they mean then things in the marriage would dramatically improve. "Maybe if I learned to be more assertive and use more ’I’ statements we’d have less problems." While the thought may be genuine and the results of actually implementing some of these techniques may improve the marriage a bit, in my experience the improvements won’t be lasting.
When you get right down to it, communication in marriage is not about being understood by each other; communication is about handling wha
A. increase mutual honesty
B. have better communication skills
C. express yourself better
D. be able to handle the message

[单项选择]Passage Four

How Honest Communication Can Save Your Marriage

Throughout my career as a marriage coach and a marriage and family therapist, the number one issue voiced by most couples is "we have trouble communicating." It’s a common complaint. And many couples think they would benefit from communication training.
Many seem to think if they could better express themselves or if their spouse would only listen and understand what they mean then things in the marriage would dramatically improve. "Maybe if I learned to be more assertive and use more ’I’ statements we’d have less problems." While the thought may be genuine and the results of actually implementing some of these techniques may improve the marriage a bit, in my experience the improvements won’t be lasting.
When you get right down to it, communication in marriage is not about being understood by each other; communication is about handling wha
A. their using more "I" statements
B. their spouse’s dishonesty
C. their attitudes toward each other
D. their mutually bad communication

[单项选择]Passage Four
How can we get rid of garbage Do we have enough energy sources to meet our future energy needs
These are two important questions that many people are asking today. Some people think that man might be able to solve both problems at the same time. They suggest using garbage as an energy source, and at the same time it can save the land to hold garbage.
For a long time, people buried garbage or dumped it on empty land. Now, empty land is scarce. But more and more garbage is produced each year. However, garbage can be a good fuel to use. The things in garbage do not look like coal, petroleum, or natural gas; but they are chemically similar to these fossil fuels. As we use up our fossil-fuel supplies, we might be able to use garbage as an energy source. Burning garbage is not a new idea. Some cities in Europe and the United States have been burning garbage for years. The heat that is produced by burning garbage is used to boil water. The steam th
A. The shortage of energy and air pollution.
B. The shortage of energy and the land to hold garbage.
C. Air pollution and the shortage of fossil fuel.
D. Air pollution and the shortage of land to hold garbag

[单项选择]How much can a person save by retirement if he gives up his pack-a-day habit
A. ＄190,000
B. ＄330,000
C. ＄500,000
D. ＄1,000,000

[单项选择]Passage Four