Passage Two
Emotional maturity means knowing that another person cannot fill up the hole in your heart. That is your responsibility. You need to love and affirm yourself day-by-day, moment-by-moment. That is the spiritual challenge of your life and everybody's life. Without your love for yourself, nothing works. No amount of love from your partner is enough. The search for love from other people is like the alcoholic's search for happiness in a bottle. The more he drinks, the less satisfied he feels and the more he wants to drink.
We are all addicted to falling in love. But after we've “fallen” a few times and broken our emotional bones, we hopefully wise up a bit. We know that the high of falling in love is not going to last. We know that sooner or later we will have to get real with each other. That is the difference between romance and partnership. Romance is an attempt to keep the addiction going. It has a very short half-life. Partnership is the dance of two ordinary people learning to live together day by day. It is a very challenging school that we enroll in. It is sometimes a lot more work than play. And it certainly requires a lot more psychological adjustment than years of therapy! We don't just graduate from this school in a year or two. It takes many years, perhaps even a lifetime, for us to master the curriculum. Your partners are imperfect human beings, just like you. They were not the “wrong” partners any more than you were. Probably, they reflected your own level of realism and emotional maturity. That's usually the way it works. So don't waste your time thinking you simply made some bad choices. The only bad choice you made was forgetting who has the full time job loving you. I know that you know who this is !
We keep remembering that they are not perfect, nor we are. Love is not a game of perfection. It is a game of overwhelming imperfection.The amazing thing is that love survives all of our mistaken attempts to control our partners and our relationships.
We can conclude from the passage that ________.
中心思想题。D选项符合全文中心：感情的成熟对正确认识并处理爱情和夫妻生活的重要性。因此D 选项是正确答 案。A，B，C选项明显与原文不符，故均为错误答案。
【内容概要】
本文是一篇说明文。解说了感情的成熟对正确认识并处理爱情和夫妻生活的重要作用。第一段告诉我们爱首先要爱自己。第二段告诉我们：当我们恋爱过 几次后我们会意识到恋爱的高潮不会持久，因此我们必须认识到这一点并现实起来在爱情与夫妻生活这所学校里好好学习。第三，第四段告诉我们人无完人，因此我们不要抱怨我们选错了对象，而要去克服不完善的地方。
Which of the following statements is true according to the passage?
细节判断题。根据原文最后一句话：The amazing thing is that love survives all of our mistaken attempts to control our partners and our relationships.可知C选项符合原文，因此C选项为正确答 案。A选项信息是无中生有，B选项信息明显与原文不符(原文：We know the high of falling in love is not going to last.)。D选项：一个人越被爱，他或她就越不满足。也是原文中所没有的信息。故A，B，D均为错误答案。
It can be inferred from the passage that ________.
推理判断题。C选项最符合原文中心意思，因此为正确答 案。A选项意思在原文中并没有出现，B选项歪曲了原文第二段第二句：But after we've “fallen” a few times and broken our emotional bones, we hopefully wise up a bit.表达的意思。D选项意思也超出了原文。故A，B，D均为错误答 案。
By saying “They were not the ‘wrong’ partners any more than you were.”(Para 3), the author means ________.
语义理解题。根据原文第三段第一句Your partners are imperfect human beings, just like you.和最后一段，可知C选项符合原句意思。A，B，D明显与原文不符，故均为错误答案。
Which of the following is NOT true according to the passage?
细节归纳判断题。C选项曲解了原文第二段： And it certainly requires a lot more psychological adjustment than years of therapy! 因此不符合原文，故为本题正确答 案。A，B，D选项符合原文意思，故为错误答 案。