【正确答案】 1、正确答案：Marriage has a stake in such factors as the continuance of the family line, the inheritance of property, the transmission of secret recipes and techniques, the maintenance of social status, etc. Therefore, in the Middle Ages, free love was hardly welcomed to upper-class families in the United Kingdom, France and Italy, even at the cost of misar-ranged marriage. For the royal family, the freedom of courtship was even more negligible. In traditional Chinese marriage , whether husband and wife were attached to each other had never been a matter of concern. Instead of marrying the person of their own choice, young people should " obey their parents" order and follow the advice of the matchmaker" , unless they followed in the track of " Sima Xiangru"(a poet in the Western Han Dynasty who eloped with Zhuo Wenjun, a young widow).