Passage 4
In Britain arrangements for inciting and entertaining quests at a wedding are usually the responsibility of the bride’s family. In most cases it is mainly friends and relations of both families who are invited but when the bride’s father is a businessman of some kind, the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social connections with clients or customers and other people whose goodwill may be of advantage to him. It is, however, the bride’s mother who has the job of sending out the formal printed invitation cards.
In the case of a church wedding, the vicar of each parish in which the bride and bridegroom lives is normally informed about a month in advance of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place. Anyone who may know of an existing marriage of either partner is ordered to give information about it, though this means of avoiding bigamy must have been more effective in the days when people moved about the world less than they do today. Often up to a hundred or more people attend the religious service and the bride usually wears the traditional long white dress and veil, while her bridesmaids, who are often children, wear long dresses in attractive colours. This may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual.
The reception which follows may be held in a restaurant, a local hall or, when there are few guests, in the bride’s own home. Refreshments are provided, a special iced wedding-cake is cut (usually to the accompaniment of speeches) and distributed to the guests, toasts are drunk and dancing may follow. At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes off to change into everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon, the journey they will make together, often in romantic surrounding abroad.
It is the bride’s parents who normally have to ________.
文章第一段第一句提到“In Britain arrangements for inviting and entertaining guests at a wedding are usually the responsibility of the bride’s family.”由此可知，在英国邀请及招待宾客等事宜都是新娘的父母做 的。故选C。
According to the passage some guests may be invited because ________.
文章第一段第二句提到“…the wedding reception may provide a useful occasion for establishing social connections with clients or customers and other people whose goodwill may be of advantage to him”。由此可知， 有一些宾客被邀请是因为他们将来可能会给新娘的家庭带来事业上的好处。故选C。
Why are the arrangements for a church wedding usually made some time before?
文章第二段第一句提到“In the case of a church wedding,.. normally informed about a month in advance of the ceremony so that an announcement of the coming wedding can be made in church on each of three Sundays before it takes place.”。由此可知，如果举办教堂婚礼一般需要提前一个月告知牧师，以便接下来的 每周日都宣告即将到来的婚礼。故选A。
What possible difference is suggested between a church and a civil wedding?
文章第二段倒数第一、二句提到“…the bride usually wears the traditional long white dress and veil...This may also happen in the case of a civil wedding in a register office but is probably less usual.”。由此可 知，相对于教堂婚礼，普通婚礼较少见到一群人参加仪式，新娘穿着传统的白纱裙，带着面纱，还有穿着 漂亮裙子的花童。由此可知，普通婚礼没有教堂婚礼那么注重仪式感和画面感。故选D。
The reception normally takes place in the bride’s home if ________.
文章最后一段第一句提到“The reception which follows may be held in a restaurant, a local hall or, when there are few guests, in the bride’s own home.”。由此可知，如果宾客不多的话，可以直接在新娘自己家 里举办宴席。也就是说，如果有足够的地方招待宾客的话是可以在新娘家里举办宴席的。故选B。
The couple leave for their honeymoon ________.
文章最后一段最后一句提到“At some point in the celebrations, the bride goes off to change into everyday clothes and then leaves the party with her husband to go on their honeymoon”。由此可知，新娘换好常 服之后，就和新郎出发去度蜜月。故选D。