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And researchers say that like those literary romantics Romeo and Juliet, they may be blind to the consequences of their quests for an idealized mate who serves their every physical and emotional need. Nearly 19 in 20 never-married respondents to a national survey agree that when you marry you want spouse to be your soul mate, first and foremost according to the State of our Unions: 2001 study released Wednesday by Rutgers University.David Popenoe, a Rutgers sociologist and one of the study’s authors, said that view might spell doom for marriages. “It really provides a very unrealistic view of what marriage really is,” Popenoe said. “The standard becomes so high, it’s not easy to bail out if you didn’t find a soul mate.”The survey points to a fundamental dilemma in which younger people want more from the institution of marriage while they seemingly are unwilling to make the necessary commitments.The survey also suggests that some respondents expect too much from a spouse, including the kind of emotional support rendered by same sex friends. The authors of the study suggest that the generation that was polled may more quickly leave a marriage because of infidelity than past generations.Popenoe said the poll, conducted by the Gallup Organization, is the first of its kind to concentrate on people in their 20s. A total of 1,003 married and single young adults nationwide were interviewed by telephone between January and March. The margin of error was plus or minus four percentage points.Respondents said they eventually want to get married, realize it’s a lot of work and think there are too many divorces. They believe there is one right person for them out there somewhere and think their own marriages won’t end in divorce.Since the poll is the first of its kind, researchers say it is impossible to say if expectations about marriage are changing or static.But scholars say the search for soul mates has increased over the last generation — and the last century — as marriage has become an institution centering on romance rather than utility. “One hundred years ago, people married for financial reasons, for tying families together, they married for political reasons,” Said John DeLamater, a sociologist at the University of Wisconsin. “And most people had children.”Those conditions are no longer the case for young adults like David Asher, a 24-year waiter in a Trenton cafe who has been in a relationship for about two years. He wants to wait to make sure he’s ready to change vows “I know a lot of it has to do with financial reasons,” he said. “Maybe if you’re going to have children, marriage is the best bet.” But the main reason for matrimony. “If you’re in love with someone, it’s sort of like promising to them you are in love.”That’s all well and good, said Heather Helms-Erikson, an assistant professor of human development and family studies at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, but passion partly in endorphin—caused physiological phenomenon—has been known to diminish in time.1. What’s the best title of this passage?2. The new study in this passage shows that（）.3. It can be inferred that the author would most likely agree with which of the following statements regarding marriage?4. Which of the following is not one of the differences between this generation and the past generations as far as marriage is concerned?5. Which of the following sentences will Heather Helms-Erikson use to illustrate her own argument?

The Commercial Revolution was not confined, of course, to the growth of trade and banking. Included in it also were fundamental changes in methods of production. The system of manufacture developed by the craft guilds in the later Middle Ages was rapidly becoming defunct. The guilds themselves, dominated by the master men, had grown selfish and exclusive.Membership in them was commonly restricted to a few privileged families. Besides, they were so completely choked by tradition that they were unable to make adjustments to changing conditions. Moreover, new industries had sprung up entirely outside the guild system. Characteristic examples were mining and smelting and the woolen industry. The rapid development of these enterprises was stimulated by technical advances, such as the invention of the spinning wheel and the discovery of a wine method of making brass, which asked about half of the fuel previously used. In the mining and smelting industries a form of organization was adopted similar to that which has prevailed ever since.But the most typical form of industrial production in the Commercial Revolution was the domestic system, developed first of all in the woolen industry. The domestic system derives its name from the fact that the work was done in the homes of industrial artisans instead of in the shop of a master craftsman. Since the various jobs in the manufacture of a product were given out on contract, the system is also known as the putting out system. Notwithstanding the petty scale of production, the organization was basically capitalistic. The raw material was purchased by an entrepreneur and assigned to individual worker, each of whom would complete his allotted task for a stipulated payment. In the case of the woolen industry the yarn would be given out first of all to the spinners, then to the weavers, fillers, and dyer in succession. When the cloth was finally finished, it would be taken by the clothier and sold in the open market for the highest price it would bring.1. According to the article, what changes did the Commercial Revolution bring about?2. The word “defunct” in the first paragraph most probably means（）.3. According to the article, in which area was it more energy-effective?4. The author implies that（）.5. According to the article, which one of the following statements is NOT true?

Many people invest in the stock market hoping to find the next Microsoft and Dell. However, know（1）personal experience how difficult this really is. For more than a year, I was（2）hundreds and sometimes thousands of dollars a day investing the market. It seemed so easy. I dreamed of（3）my job at the end of the year, of buying a small apartment in Paris, of traveling around the world. But these dreams（4）to a sudden and dramatic end when a stock I（5）, Texas cellular phone wholesaler, fell by more than 75 percent（6）a one year period. On the（7）day, it plunged by more than $15 a share. There was rumor the company was（8）sales figures. That was when I learned how quickly Wall Street（9）companies that misrepresent the（10）. In a（11）, I sold all my stock in the company, paving（12）margin debt with case advances from my（13）card. Because I owned so may shares, I（14）a small fortune, half of it from money I borrowed from the brokerage company. One month, I am a（15）, the next a loser. This one big loss was my first lesson in the market.My father was stock broker, as was my grandfather（16）him. (In fact, he founded one of Chicago’s earliest brokerage firms.) But like so many thing in life, we don’t learn anything until we（17）it for ourselves. The only way to really understand the inner（18）of the stock market is to invest your own hard-earned money. When all your stocks are doing（19）and you feel like a winner, you learn very little. It’s when all your stocks are losing and everyone is questioning your stock-picking（20）that you find out if you have what it takes to invest in the market.

When a person dies, his debts must be paid before his（）can be distributed.

During his two-month stay in China, Tom never（）a chance to practice his Chinese.

The boy seemed more（）to their poverty, after seeing how his grandparents lived.

The emphasis on examinations is by far the（）worst form of competition in schools.

Melissa is a computer（）that destroyed files in computers and frustrated thousands of users around the world.

According to the latest report, consumer confidence（）a breathtaking 15 points last month, to its lowest level in 9 years.

Some scientists have suggested that Earth is a kind of, zoo or wildlife（）for intelligent space beings, like the wilderness areas we have set up on earth to allow animals to develop naturally while we observe them.

People innately（）for superiority over their peers although it sometimes takes the form of an exaggerated lust for power.

One can understand others much better by noting the immediate and fleeting reactions of their eyes and（）to expressed thoughts.

International sport should create goodwill between the nations, but in the present organization of the Olympics somehow encourages（）patriotism.

Three weeks after the suicide bombing, the police were still hunting for bombers for they believe more were（）.

When we credit the successful people with intelligence, physical strength or good luck, we are making excuses for ourselves because we fall（）in all three.

It is agreed that all nations should take measures against terrorism on the basis of the UN（）and other international laws.

The two delegates had an in-depth exchange of views on how to enhance their（）cooperation.

He had wanted a 25% raise in pay, but after talking to his boss, he decided that a 5% raise would have to（）.

The houses in this area were all reacted in（）of housing regulations.

AIDS is causing great public concern because the（）fatal disease hits primarily young people.

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