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Unit 13 Marriage
Key to the Exercises
Text comprehension
Decide which of the following best states the authors purpose of writing.
B
Judge, according to the text, whether the following statements are true or false.
T (Refer to Paragraph 1. The conventional people didnt have the falsely optimistic expectation that marriage would be easy, which can be seen from their enthusiastic response to the Dont advice which Punch gave to those about to marry.)
F (Refer to Paragraph 2. It is said that in the nineteenth century, the horrors of marriage were depicted especially cruelly, but still there were songs, though rare, occasionally sung about happily married people, which could bring respectful silence to
the drunken husbands. )
F (Refer to Paragraph 4. It is indicated here that the clergy would only say that marriage was made in Heaven, but it wouldnt necessarily end in Heaven, too.)
T (Refer to Paragraph 7. Dr. Johnsons quote shows that he believes that marriage is
not something natural for man and woman, so however they try, it is still hardly enough to keep them together.)
T (Refer to Paragraph 8, which tells us that almost everybody seems to have painted the troubles of marriage in the darkest colours. And it is also mentioned that in modern times nearly everybody, single or married, is imagined to be unhappy.)
T (Refer to Paragraph 9, which argues that, though it is believed that the ostrich can
never escape his pursuers by burying his head in the sand, actually many of them do survive by this practice. It suggests that ignoring the difficulties will be the advisable practice for all the married people.)
Answer the following questions.
Refer to Paragraph 1. By denying the existence of the conventional people as depicted in Bertrand Russells quotation who like to pretend that difficulties in regard to marriage
are a new thing, the author intends to show that everyone in this world agrees that marriage is difficult, from as early as the beginning of human society to th
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