Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them quickly turn to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian - the columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives. This is relatively(相關(guān)地)modern change in the age-old custom of the arranged marriage. The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still described in terms of appearance, or skill in “the wifely arts,” information about her earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.
India’s society is changing.
A、Right
B、Wrong
C、Not mentioned
【正確答案】A
【答案解析】這道題是主旨題。本段倒數(shù)第3句直接反映文章主題:The thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that coming to this traditional society. 該句說“每周公布的數(shù)以千計(jì)的廣告反映出這個(gè)傳統(tǒng)的社會(huì)正發(fā)生著變化”。