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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th
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2014-04-23
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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context:some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses (配偶).
Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half brothers, and half sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant; most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
Even though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families, _____.
选项
A、the functions of marriage remain unchanged
B、the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
C、most Americans prefer a second marriage
D、all of the above
答案
B
解析
本题问即便美国家庭组合方式发生了巨大变化,人们怎样选择自己的婚姻生活。利用浏览式阅读法通读全文,我们可以发现全文旨在说明大多数美国人仍然对婚姻充满信心。文章的第一句及最后一句都突出了这一主旨,文章的最后一句是全文的结论:即使这样,在这一现象的背后仍然存在着这样一个不变的事实:大多数美国成年人过着婚配生活。因此,本题的正确答案应是B“大多数美国人仍对婚姻有信心”。A“婚姻的功能(或目的)没有变化”。这是不对的。例如:婚姻的(传统)目的之一是生儿养女,繁衍后代,而现在许多夫妇决定不要孩子,这就是变化。参阅第二段第三句。C“多数美国人喜欢再婚”。文章提到80%的离婚者选择再婚,这不等于说大多数人喜欢再婚。因此,A、C和D均为错误选项。
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