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  3. I’d been living with my wife for eight years and one night "mom" says, "I guess you guys are never gonna get married. I mean, yo

I’d been living with my wife for eight years and one night "mom" says, "I guess you guys are never gonna get married. I mean, yo

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问题    I’d been living with my wife for eight years and one night "mom" says, "I guess you guys are never gonna get married. I mean, you’ve been through jail together, you’re living together, but... oh, forget it."
   "Oh, well," I said, "put it like that and I’ll marry your daughter tomorrow."
   Actually, I don’t know what we were waiting for, except that for a guy it’s never the right time to get married. I’m also suspicious of any two people who don’t struggle with that decision. Part of my problem was that I was still lusting in my heart after other ladies. But somehow I knew that I wasn’t going to find another woman remotely as great as my soon-to-be wife. It’s a good thing my mother-in-law finally spoke up.
   I finally gathered my courage one day when we were having a picnic, and popped the question. I also gave my wife a big tourist pamphlet about Switzerland. I wasn’t taking any chances.
   She said no.
   It killed me. I felt sick to my stomach. I lost my appetite. Our dog just stared at me, thinking, "If you’re not going to eat your lunch, I will." Finally, I said, "But the Switzerland trip is yours if you say yes.
   "Switzerland," she said, "is filled with precise, humorless people."
   "Maybe I should have suggested Paris?"
   For a minute it seemed as if my change in travel plans would rate a solid "maybe". But she said no again.
   When we woke up the next morning, she told me that she’d slept on my proposal. "I guess I was a little rude to you last night," she explained. Meanwhile, I’m figuring I’m off the hook for this marriage thing for at least another eight years. I could afford to be generous.
   "I asked, you said no. It’s okay," I said. I might have looked a little too relieved because later that day she gave me a little box. Inside was a gold watch. On the back was inscribed. "Yes. I’ve reconsidered."
   I liked the watch, so I did the right thing.
The reason why the man had waited so long was that he ______.
选项 A、didn’t think he was ready to propose to her
B、suspected that husband and wife would often quarrel
C、didn’t think eight years was long enough
D、was waiting for his mother-in-law’s approval
答案A
解析 推理题。从文章第三段“…for a guy it’s never the right time to get married．”以及“…I was still lusting in my heart after other ladies．”可知，作者还没有作好结婚的准备。B、C文中均未提到。文中作者说到岳母提出让他们结婚是一件好事，并不是说他等着岳母同意，D不正确。故正确答案为A。
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