《大学英语限时阅读3》内容简介:本套教材共分三册,每册编写十个单元,每个单元有四篇短文,均有规定的时间与词数,供学生阅读时参考。每个单元的主题接近配合学生所学英语精读教材中的各单元的主题内容,尤其是外研社出版的高职高专教材《新视野英语教程》,相互补充,有助于提高学生的英语知识与应用能力的获取效率。其中,靠前册内容相当于大学英语预备级水平;第二册内容相当于英语应用能力考试B级水平;第三册内容相当于英语应用能力考试A级水平。
Quickie question 1. Who broke up with whom?Remember: For every heartbreaker out there, there'ssomeone who's had his or her heart broken. The fact is, noteveryone who is divorced wanted to be divorced. Studies showthat three out of four divorces are unilateral——mean-ing that only one spouse decided to end it——and that women aremore likely to end marriages than men. In laymen's terms, theseemingly irresponsible cad may not be so bad. That is why it isimportant to gently tease out the circumstances surrounding thedivorce before passing judgment, stresses Jay Lebow, seniortherapist at the Family Institute at Northwestern University."Often, one partner hasn't really thought through the full rangeof things it means to be married," he explains. "Or the personwho left could have commitment issues."
Quickie question 2. Did age play a role?
Ah, young lovers——impulsive, romantic, headstrong, fool-ish. Those qualities that make you go weak in the knees so easi-ly are often also the same ones that cause problems later on.The younger you are when you marry, the more likely yourmarriage will end, but that doesn't necessarily brand you asnon-marriage material for life. Adrian, 31, who works in ad-vertising sales in Dallas, knew that Bree had been married at 19and divorced by 20 before they got involved, but he wasn't de-terred. "She was married too young," Adrian says.
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