US President Bush wears a coat and tie in the White House office and expects his staff to dress “professionally,” which some say sets a tome for the nation.

……

51. "Business casual" was prevalent several years ago because ______.

A. the Manhattan law business grew very quickly

B. shaking hands with clients became popular

C. the country was fighting the conservatives

D. the Internet companies boomed then

52. When the "business casual" prevailed, ______.

A. businessmen wore ties only in workplace

B. businessmen didn’t wear ties at all

C. businesswomen didn’t wear formally in workplace

D. businesswomen still wore formally everywhere

53. The Fortune 500 executives ______.

A. set the trend toward more casual wear

B. are particular about what they wear

C. begin to wear suits more often than before

D. are usual1y indifferent to fashion trend

54. At the beginning of the "business casual" trend, business people wore casually______.

A. when meeting clients

B. on weekends

C. in summer

D. almost everyday

55. It is implied in the passage that the change of business dress from the casual to the formal reflects ______.

A. the changed of people’s taste in fashion

B. the ups and downs of the fashion industry

C. the ups and downs of the Internet companies

D. people’s difference in business dress

Part IV  Cloze

The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage   56   in the United States ---about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people---is   57   higher than it is in other industrialized countries.  However, marriage is   58   as widespread as it was several decades ago.   59   of American adults who are married   60   form 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent In 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried   61   their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some   62   in their lives. Experts   63   that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.

The timing of marriage has varied   64   over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s.   65  , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous   66   in U.S. history. Today’s later age of marriage is   67   the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before   68  . Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a