34 After months of staying home doing nothing at all, Mark was ready to get out of his _______ life because he
finally realized that it was not the end of the world to break up with his girlfriend.
(A) cumulative (B) admirable (C) pathetic (D) dynamic
6 Sometimes a social interaction with a(n) _____ rather than a stranger brings a better mood.
(A)acquaintance
(B)dominance
(C)performance
(D)significance
In North America and Europe, a slim woman is regarded as a beautiful person. But in many parts of Africa, a fat
woman is a beautiful woman, and people think she is healthy and rich. If you are slim, that means you are a worker with
little money and not enough food to eat. Also, people believe a slim woman is sick and can’t have children.
To help girls look healthy and beautiful, people in central Africa send them to a fattening room. In the fattening
room, the girl does not move much. She can only eat, sleep, and get fatter. Elder woman come to teach her about
housework and chores. In Nigeria, brides go to a fattening house before they get married. At the end of time, but before
the wedding, the brides walk through the village so everyone can admire their big bodies. A married woman can also go
to a fattening room. A man wants his wife to be fat so other people will think that the man is rich and that he is a
responsible husband.
If parents don’t send their daughter to a fattening room, their friends and relatives will say the parents are not doing
their duty. In the old days, girls sometimes stayed in a fattening room for two years. Today some families cannot afford
more than a few months. Also, fattening rooms are not popular in cities now. In cities, health education and Western
culture have a big effect on people’s ideas. But in villages, this traditional custom continues.
【題組】46 What is the passage mainly about？
(A) A traditional idea and practice of beauty in Africa.
(B) The management of the fattening house.
(C) The changing concept of beauty with time.
(D) The methods to get a good husband in Africa.
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