2013.6 英语六级完形填空真题（文都）

2013年6月六级完型真题

In most cultures throughout the world, there is an expectation that when a person reaches adulthood, marriage should soon follow. In the United States -62- ，each month upwards of 168,000 couples wed, -63- to love, honor, and respect their chosen life mates -64- death parts them. The expectation is deep-rooted.

-65- the social functions, purposes, and relevance of marriage are rapidly changing in -66- society, making them less clear-cut than they have been -67- history. For instance, in a Pew Research Center random polling of over 2,000 -68- fewer than half of all of the adults polled indicated that -69- a man and a woman plan to spend the -70- of their lives together as a couple, it was important than -71- marry.

Those of us who choose to marry have -72- reasons why we decide to marry the person we do. There is a -73- , however in our Western, individualistic culture: We tend to marry for reasons that benefit ourselves, -74- for reasons that benefit the society -75- , such as found in collectivist cultures. Research in Western cultures has found, for example, that the number-one -76- people cite for marrying to signify a lifelong commitment -77- someone they love. However, this reason is not the only response to why people wed—today, people get married for reasons of commitment, security, and personal belief systems. The Pew Research Center’s recent findings -78- that the main reasons people get married are for -79- happiness and commitment, and bearing and missing children. As the date from this -80- show us, there are racial, age, and religious differences in what people 81 to be the main purposes of getting married.

62. A）alone C) barely

B) solely D) again

63. A）trusting C) vowing

B) competing D) pretending

64. A）after C) when

B) until D) though

65. A）However C)Therefore

B) Hence D) Then

66. A) contemporary C) constructive

B) conventional D)consequent

67. A) beyond C) within

B) throughout D) amidst

68. A) objects C) individuals

B) specimens D) incidents

69. A) whereas C) for

B) unless D) if

70. A) whole C) leftover

B) total D) rest

71. A) equally C) nominally

B) legally D) vitally

72. A) radical C) specific

B) constant D) designated

73. A) worry C) myth

B) confidence D) tendency

74. A) rather than C) not only

B) or else D) as well

75. A) at length C) at random

B) at large D) at risk

76. A) ease C) reason

B) belief D) notion

77. A) about C) in

B) over D) to

78. A) suggest C) signify

B) raise D) resolve

79. A) moral C) visual

B) mutual D) versatile

80. A) legend C)survey

B) episode D) blueprint

81. A) observe C) substitute

B) dispatch D) consider