Section A Reading in the Context
Read the passage with 10 missing words or phrases.Learn to guess their meanings from the context and then select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage. Each word or phrase should be selected only once.
In Mr. Allen's high school class， all the students have to “get married”. However， the wedding ceremonies are not real ones but 1 . These mock ceremonies sometimes become so noisy that the loud laughter 2 out the voice of the “minister”. Even the two students getting married often begin to giggle.
The teacher，Mr.Allen，believes that marriage is a difficult and 3 business.He wants young people to understand that there are many changes that must take place after marriage.He believes that the need for these psychological and financial 4 should be understood before people marry.
Mr. Allen doesn't only introduce his students major problems faced in marriage such as illness or unemployment. He also 5 them to the basic problems they will face every day.He wants to introduce young people all the problems that can 6 a marriage to the breaking point. He even 7 his students with the problems of divorce and the fact that divorced men must pay child 8 money for their children and sometimes pay monthly money to their ex⁃wives.
It has been 9 for some of the students to see the problems that a married couple often faces. Until they took the course， they had not worried much about the problems of marriage. However， both students and parents feel that Mr.Allen's course is 10 and have recommended the course publicly. Their statements and letters supporting the class have convinced the school to offer the course again.
A. drowns
B. valuable
C. represents
D. familiarizes
E. strain
F. past
G. serious
H. technical
I. support
J. shareholders
K. unsettling
L. adjustments
M. imitations
N. profits
O. exposes