[填空题]The path to marriage is lined with a variety of requirements, obstacles, and ceremonies. (46) . Marriage is too important for such casual arrangements. Marriage is the approved social pattern whereby two or more persons establish a family. (47) . Every society has, therefore, developed a pattern for guiding these marriages.
To Americans, it is shockingly wrong that parents should arrange and compel the marriage of two persons who may never even have met. (48) Our reaction illustrates the usual error of ethnocentrism—assuming that people of another culture will think and feel as we should think and feel if placed into their situation. It overlooks the fact that most people wish and feel only what their culture trains them to wish and feel. We think of marriage as a romantic adventure with a person we have come to love. The girl in ancient China, about to enter an arranged marriage with a stranger, eagerly looked forward to her marriage as a desirabl

[填空题] The path to marriage is lined with a variety of requirements, obstacles, and ceremonies. 【B1】 is the society which simply allows a couple quietly to pair 【B2】 and start living together. Marriage is too important 【B3】 such 【B4】 arrangements. It 【B5】 not only the conceiving and rearing of children, but also a great many other obligations and privileges. Every society has, 【B6】 . developed a pattern for guiding these marriages. To Americans, it is wrong that parents should arrange and 【B7】 the marriage of two persons. 【B8】 . the girl in ancient China, who was about to enter an 【B9】 marriage with a stranger, 【B10】 looked forward to her marriage as a comfortable 【B11】 with a man she would come to love, because he had been 【B12】 chosen by her parents. Every society 【B13】 choice in marriage by requiring that one 【B14】 a mate outside his or her own group. In American society, the prohibition applies only 【B15】 close blood relatives. And many societies 【B16】 the circle of the proh
A. A．however
B．nevertheless
C．therefore
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