Directions: For each blank in the following passages there are four words or phrases marked A, B, C and D. Fill in each blank with the word or phrase that best fits the context.
In India, almost all marriages are arranged. Even among the educated middle classes in modern urban India, marriage is as much a concern of the families as it is of the __1__. So customary is the practice of arranged marriage that there is a special name for a marriage which is not __2__: It is called a “love match”.
On my first trip to India, I met many young men and women whose parents were in the process of “getting them married”. In many cases, the bride and groom would not meet each other before the marriage. __3__ they might meet for a brief conversation, and this meeting would take place only after their parents had decided that the match was __4__. Parents do not force their children to marry a person who either marriage partner finds unacceptable. But only after one match is refused will another be sought.
As a young American woman in India for the first time, I found this custom of arranged marriage __5__. How could any intelligent young person __6__ to such a marriage without great reluctance? It was __7__ to everything I believed about the importance of romantic love as the only basis of a happy marriage. It was also in conflict with my strongly held beliefs that the choice of such a close and permanent relationship could be made only by individuals __8__. If anyone had tried to arrange my marriage, I would have been __9__!
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