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Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and t
Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and t
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2023-09-13
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问题
Every Sunday morning millions of Indians settle down with a cup of tea and the special weekend issues of their newspapers, just as Americans do. But here, with the marriage season approaching, many of them turn quickly to a Sunday feature that is particularly Indian-- columns and columns of marriage advertisements in which young people look for husbands and wives.
"Beautiful Brahman girl wanted for bank officer from well-connected family", one says. "Vegetarian man (doctor, engineer preferred) for church-educated girl with light complexion", says another. "Solid 25-year-old, salary four figures, wants tall, charming, educated Punjabi (旁遮普人)" says a third.
This is a relatively modern change in the age of old custom of the arranged marriage. Thousands of advertisements published each week increasingly reflect social changes that are coming to this traditional society. For example, although women are still usually described in terms of appearance, or skills in "the wifely arts", information about their earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements. This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.
Divorce, which used to be almost unheard of in India, is sometimes now mentioned in the advertisements as in the case of a woman whose advertisement in a New Delhi newspaper explained that she had been "the innocent party" when her marriage broke up.
As a sign of the slight loosening of the rigid caste (社会阶层) system, a number of advertisements promise "caste not important", or "girl’s abilities will be main consideration". The majority of them, however, still require not only caste, such as Brahman or Kshatriya, but also a certain home region or ethnic origin.
In a land where light skin is often regarded as socially preferable, many also require that a woman have a "wheat-color" complexion or that a man be "tall, fair and handsome".
Advertisements are placed and eagerly read by a wide range of people in the upper classes, mostly in cities. Many of them receive dozens of answers. "There’s nothing embarrassing about it", explained a Calcutta businessman advertising for a son-in-law. "It’s just another way of broadening the contacts and increasing the possibility of doing the best one can for one’s daughter".
Because of high unemployment and a generally poor standard of living here, one of the best attractions a marriage advertisement can offer is a permit to live abroad, especially in Canada or the United States. A person who has one can get what be wants. One recent Sunday in Madras, for example, a Punjabi engineer living in San Francisco advertised for "a beautiful slim bride with lovely features knowing music and dance". And a man whose advertisement said that he had an American immigration permit was able to say, "Only girls from rich, well-educated families need apply". [br] What does the example in Paragraph 3 suggest?
选项
A、Wives tend to work.
B、Housewives are out of date.
C、Working wives are preferable.
D、Women are free from housework.
答案
A
解析
本题是问“第三及的例子表明了什么”。逻辑分析推理题。作者在第三段指出"... information about their earning power is entering more and more of the advertisements,This reflects the arrival in India of the working wife.",即关于征婚广告中越来越多地提到女性的工作以及收入状况,这说明印度将出现更多有工作的妻于。也就是说[A]“妻子工作是一个趋势”应为正确答案。
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