We've already hinted at one motivation for matchmaking—the belief that the people getting married are too young to make a wise decision. 13 Even with older teens or people in their early 20s, a society might encourage matchmaking in the belief that young people, blinded by the sexual attractiveness of a potential mate, cannot shrewdly choose someone who could make a good lifelong partner after the beauty of youth fades away.
AThis is the impulse behind the age-old practice of matchmaking.
BModern group-maintenance matchmaking still occurs in many cultures, but it usually has less to do with social caste than with other affiliations, such as religion or ethnicity.
CThe selection practices of Internet matchmaking services do not always create happy customers.
DEspecially in cultural traditions that encouraged marriages between 11- or 12-year-old children, this belief was probably true.正確答案
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