The Changing Middle Class Middle class is not a real designation, nor does it carry privileges. However, the United States 【

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问题                     The Changing Middle Class
    Middle class is not a real designation, nor does it carry privileges. However, the United States 【B1】______itself to be a middle-class nation. It is more of a perception, which probably was as true as it ever could be right after World War II. The【B2】______was growing, more and more people owned their own homes, workers had solid contracts with the companies that employed them, and nearly everyone who wanted a higher education could have one. 【B3】______people enjoyed upward social mobility. They may have started out poor, but they could become rich. Successful people also found that they had greater geographic mobility. In other words, they found themselves moving to and living in a【B4】______of places.
    The middle class【B5】______holds several values and principles. One strong value is the need to earn enough money to feel that one can determine one’ s own economic fate. In addition, middle class morality embraces【B6】______of individual responsibility, importance of family, obligations to others, and believing in something outside oneself.
    But in the 1990s those in the middle class found that there was a price for success. A U. S. News & World Report【B7】______in 1994 indicated that 75 percent of Americans believed that middle class families could no longer make ends【B8】______Both spouses now worked, as did some of the children ; long commutes became routine; the need for child care put strains on the family; and public schools were not as【B9】______as they once were. Members of the middle class were no longer financing their lifestyles through earnings but were using credit to stay afloat. The understanding of just what middle class meant was【B10】______.

【B8】

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答案K

解析 此空较难,不妨将此题放在最后再选答案。此题旨在考察固定搭配make ends meet的用法,make ends meet的意思是“使收支相抵”,此处填meet符合原句句意:“如今75%的美国中产阶级认为他们无法再使收支相抵”,因此应选K。
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