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阅读下面材料,在空白处填入适当的内容或括号内单词的正确形式。Marriage can vary 1 (great) from country to country. There are many different kinds of 2 (marry) ceremonies practiced around the world. One of the largest and most expensive wedding ceremonies 3 (hold) in Dubai in 1981. At this wedding, the well-to-do son of Sheik Rashid Bin Saeed Al Maktoum married Princess Salama in a large building 4 was built for the ceremony. There were 20,000guests at the wedding. The cost was close to $44 million.
A man and a woman may choose to get married for many 5 (reason). Sometimes they marry because they are in love. Sometimes they marry because their parents tell them that they must marry.
The 6 (young) couple in the world to get married was a 11-month-old boy (the groom) and a three-month-old girl (the bride). 7 couple got married in Bangladesh in 1986.
The parents of the bride and the groom arranged the marriage in order to end a fight between the two families without either family 8 (have) to lose face in the end. The families had been arguing over a farm for 20 years. Both the bride family and the groom family thought that they owned the farm, but no one knew for sure. The fight ended for good 9 the young boy married the young girl. The two families agreed 10 (give) the farm to the young couple.