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    Most Americans find the idea of arranged marriages difficult to understand or accept. They believe that two people should marry for love, after a period of (1)_______ or courtship (求爱时期). During that period, the (2)_______ marriage partners are supposed to learn enough about each other to decide whether or not they will be able to (3)_______ a successful marriage. Today in America, it is common for people to live together as a way of (4)______for marriage. The idea of an arranged marriage seems very (5)_______ indeed.But (6)_______ all marriages arranged in one way or another? In the United States marriages are (7)_______ formally arranged, but quite a lot of informal arranging goes on before two people become husband and wife. People who (8)_________ are introduced to each other by friends. These friends have already decided that the two people are right for each other and arrange for them to meet. In the United States, this kind of arrangement is very common. Because friends have such great influence, (9)__________________________________________.Families also exert (施加) open and subtle pressures on their children to influence their choices of marriage partners. Parents often arrange dates for their own children. One parent often tells a friend about her beautiful daughter or handsome son. Also, parents can meet the perfect marriage prospect for their son or daughter through business relationships. Since parents often assist their children financially, they feel that they (10)______________________________ where they will live, what type of furniture they will purchase, and what their life-style will be like.


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    [音频]We cannot travel every path. Success must be won along one line. We must make our business the one life purpose to which every other must be 1)___________. I hate a thing done by halves. If it be right, do it boldly. If it be wrong, leave it undone. The men of history were not perpetually looking into the mirror to make sure of their own size. 2)_________ in their work they did it.They did it so well that thewondering world sees them to be great, and 3)________ them accordingly. To livewith a high ideal is a successful life. It is not what one does, but what onetries to do, that makes a man strong. “Eternal vigilance,” it has been said,“is the price of 4)________.” With equal truth it may be said, “Unceasing effortis the price of success.”If we do not work with our might, others will; and they will outstrip us in the race, and pluck the prize from our grasp. Success grows less and less 5)___________ on luck and chance. Self-distrust is the cause of most of our failures. The great and 6)_____________ help to success is character. Character is a crystallized habit, the result of training and conviction.Every character is influenced by heredity, environment and education. But these apart, if every man were not to be a great extent the 7)_________ of his own character, he would be a fatalist, and 8)____________ creature of circumstances. Instead of saying that man is a creature of circumstance, it would be nearer the mark to say that man is the architect of circumstance.From the same materials one man builds 9)________, another hovel. Bricks and mortarare mortar and bricks, until the architect can make them something else. The true way to gain much is never to 10)______ to gain too much. Wise men don’t care for what they can’t have.


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