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America's latest strategy for single persons who don't want to be single any longer has marry names: speeding-dating, express-date, 10-minute-dating or simply mini-date.
The principle is the same: Why spend an 1 evening with a stranger 2 you realize after only the first few minutes that you can't 3 the person?
The solution: The man and woman sit down 4 each other. A bell is sounded, and in the next 7 to 10 minutes each one tries to find out as much as possible about the 5 persons. When the bell 6 off a second time; the man stands up and moves 7 to the next female.
At such a meeting in San Francisco 8 , some 200 men and women between the ages of 30 and 60 had a 9 expression on their faces, in two long 10 opposite each other. The signal was given, and then almost everybody started 11 away.
Richard Gosse, 12 of“AMERICAN SINGLES”, says this is the fastest, most effective and at the moment“ 13 ”way to search for a partner. Minute-date has become a 14 .everywhere from computer fans in Silicon Valley to young people in San. Francisco to the suburbs of Chicago. Gosse says the quick method to get to know each other is helpful above all for 15 singles who are not brave enough to speak to a stranger in a bar.
His 16 : Don't talk about money, your weight or about your former partner, but 17 about your dreams, desires and hobbies.
Most speed-dating meetings cost about US $ 25 per evening, 18 a person to get to know 15 to 20 people 19 the opposite sex. Speed-dating is so much in demand in America that most meetings are 20 out weeks and months in advance.
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1．B 提示：从下文3空句可知。 2．A 提示：后句为一假设情况。 3．C 提示：stand此处为“忍受”。从这一句可推出1小题答案。这三个空联系十分紧密，必须从整体上分析，才能找出正确答案。 4．B 提示：因为这里指的是男女双方的约会，双方坐下来“面对面”的交流。 5．D 提示：other persons即“对方”。 6．C 提示：go off此处意为铃声“响起”，时间到了。 7．A 提示：on为副词，指前一个动作的延续。 8．C 提示：A项与文章开头的latest strategy矛盾；B，D两项与下文和实际情况不符。C项自然介绍出下文的一次约会的情况，故C项为正确答案。 9．B 提示：因为是两个陌生人双方的约会，双方都希望能找到自己的伴侣，当然是“充满希望的”。 10．C 提示：约会时他们是坐成两长排面对面交谈的。 11．D 提示：talk away指开始交谈起来。 12．B 提示：chairman一词可单独用，不加冠词the，其余的必须加the。 13．D 提示：hot为“时髦的；风行的”。 14．A 提示：从下文可知，这种快速约会方式从硅谷的电脑迷到旧金山、芝加哥的郊区的年轻人都采用。practice此处为“惯例”，指一个特殊范围内的规则，而D项则指“社会习俗”。 15．C 提示：从下文not brave enough to speak…可知。 16．B 提示：tip意为：告诫，建议；warning指对一些有危险的事情所发出的“警告”。 17．B 提示：整个空应为but you would rather talk about…联系前一句可知。 18．D 提示：约会某人是自己的事情，肯定是自愿的，故A，B，C项皆不合逻辑。 19．A 提示：of the opposite sex意为“异性”。 20．B 提示：从前句快速约会是so much in demand和下文in advance可知。book意为“预定”。 |
