全国2015年MBA考试年经典模拟试题英语A5.docVIP

全国2012年MBA考试年经典模拟试题英语A5 SelectionⅠUse of English 　　Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) 　　The disintegration of a marriage begins from the moment one or both partners first realize that something is wrong and that something should be done about it. The first realization is easier than the second, and?? 1?? comes a series of half-truths and rationalizations. Several wives have said,“I know my marriage isn’t very good, but probably no marriages are any?? 2? .”Many choose to live on in an unhappy?? 3?? because they feel the known is safer than the unknown, or because they think they are?? 4?? the family and sacrificing themselves?? 5?? the children. A good many men?? 6?? because the pride of possession outweighs? 7 , because the sense of failure would be more unbearable than the present unhappiness. 　　It is only when the unhappiness becomes unbearable? 8? people are willing to think of the alternative. Making the choice is a painful? 9? because it gets down to the lesser of two evils, that of staying and that of leaving. Both seem? 10? bad, in different ways. Staying means the endless opening of the wounds, the horror of watching oneself and one’s mate turn each into monsters, the necessity of capitulating one’s beliefs, of adjusting oneself? 11? a gloomy workable compromise. Leaving is bleak survival, and the terrible feeling of having no one around? 12? to blame everything. Wisdom warns that the pasture will never be greener, there are children, the diffcult choice must be made for them, too: 13? it will be worse for them to grow up as witnesses to a bad relationship or live with only one parent in the house. There is no simple answer to this, either,? 14? it is popularly assumed that the children will necessarily be? 15? with both parents. 　　So when the? 16? of a marriage seems possible, and the issues begin to take? 17? in their true gravity, panic frequently se