Section B　Trying Your Hand

Consolidation Exercise

Read the two paragraphs on marriage below．Show their structures by completing the tables which follow them．

1．Marriage has a beneficial effect on men．Compared to single men of the same age group，married men enjoy better physical and mental health．Their lives are likely to be longer and happier．In addition，they enjoy more successful careers，fill higher status occupations and consequently earn more money．Critics may argue that it is simply that more successful men tend to get married but the evidence shows that it is marriage which brings about these beneficial effects．Hence the best guarantee of a long，happy，healthy and successful life for a man is to have a wife devoted to homemaking and the care of her husband．

2．Surveys show that more wives than husbands express dissatisfaction with their marriage and consider their marriages unhappy．More wives start divorce proceedings．In addition，wives are much more likely to suffer from stress，anxiety and depression than their partners．Compared to their single peers，wives have poorer physical and mental health．It is clear that for many women，marriage cannot be considered a beneficial experience．

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