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Passage Five
"Family"is of course an elastic word. But when British people say that their society is based on family life，they are thinking of "family" in its "narrow，peculiarly European sense of mother， father and children living together alone in their own house as an economic and social unit. Thus， every British marriage indicates the beginning of a new and independent family—— hence the tremendous importance of marriage in British life. For both the man and the woman， marriage means leaving one"s parents and starting one"s own life. The man"s first duty will then be to his wife， and the wife"s to her husband. He will be entirely responsible for her financial support， and she for the running of the new home. Their children will be their common responsibility and theirs alone. Neither the wife"s parents nor the husband"s， nor their brothers or sisters，
aunts or uncles， have any right to interfere with them——they are their own masters.
Readers of novels like Jane Austen"s Pride and Prejudice will know that in former times marriage among wealthy families were arranged by the girl"s parents， that is， it was the parents"duty to find a suitable husband for their daughter， preferably a rich one， and by skillful encouragement to lead him eventually to ask their permission to marry her. Until that time， the girl was protected and maintained in the parents"home， and the financial relief of getting rid of her could be seen in their giving the newly married pair a sum of money called a dowry. It is very different today. Most girls of today get a job when they leave school and become financially independent before their marriage. This has had two results. A girl chooses her own husband， and she gets no dowry.
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Passage Four
Deep inside a mountain near Sweetwater in East. Tennessee is a body of water known as the Lost Sea. It is listed by the Guinness Bool of World Records as the world"s largest underground lake. The Lost Sea is part of an extensive and historic cave system called Craighead Caverns.
The caverns have been known and used since the days of the Cherokee Indian Nation. The cave expands into a series of huge rooms from a small opening on the side of the mountain. Approximately one mile from the entrance， in room called "the Council Room"， many Indian artifacts have been found. Some of the items discovered include pottery， arrowheads， weapons， and jewelry.
For many years there were persistent rumors of a large underground lake somewhere in a cave， but it was not discovered until 1905. In that year， a thirteen-year-old boy named Ben Sands crawled through a small opening three hundred feet underground. He found himself in a large cave half filled with water.
Today tourists visit the Lost Sea and ride far out onto it in glass-bottomed boats powered by electric motors. More than thirteen acres of water have been mapped out so far and still no end to the lake has been found. Even though teams of divers have tried to explore the Lost Sea， .the full extent of it is still unknown.
The Lost Sea is unique because it is__________. 查看材料
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