British men are abandoning their stiff（僵硬的）upper lips but still do not express their feeling openly like Americans, a research shows. When it comes to strong emotion, the once _____43_____ British are now happy to cry quite openly.
"Thirty percent of all British males have cried in the last month. That is a very high figure," said Peter Marsh, director of the Social Issues Research Center. "Only two percent said they could not remember when then they last cried," the head of the research group said. Long gone is the "No _____44____ ----- We're British" time when emotion was considered a _____45_____ form. "Among 2,000 people, very few people in their forties or fifties had seen their _____46_____ cry. Now it is twice as many," he told reporters. "Seventy-seven percent of men considered crying in public increasingly ______47____." Almost half the British men opened the floodgates over a bad movie, book or TV program. Self-pity got 17 percent crying. Nine percent cried at weddings.
Form the days of Empire, the British have always considered themselves models of reserve（矜持）, _____48______ "excitable foreigners" who show no _____49_____.
Marsh argued the ______50______ was still there: "We have probably not caught up with the Americans or the Italians when it comes to the actual display of emotions"
"But we are clearly ______51_______. What we take as typical British reserve has been significantly disappeared."
Women's battle for equal rights has certainly had an effect --- both in the workplace and at home. "Men in their twenties or thirties are interacting with women on equal terms much more so than a generation ago. They have to relate to the opposite sex .Women become more man -like and men become more female. That transfers into the ____52____ too," Marsh said.
43. A. helpless B. cool C. serious D. speechless
44. A. Tears B. Smoking C. Excitement D. Doubt
45. A. common B. preferred C. bad D. crazy
46. A. neighbour B. partner C. mother D. father
47. A. unwise B. unavoidable C. available D. acceptable
48. A. laughing at B. interested in C. looking jealously at D. taking pity on
49. A. self-confidence B. self-centered C. self-control D. self-defence
50. A. difference B. impact C. conflict D. reserve
51. A. developing B. changing C. attempting D. experimenting
52. A. future B. workplace C. mind D. law
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