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Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin
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2022-01-04
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问题
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s【C1】________in a way. All over the world, birthrates tend to fall a-long with economic development
The thing about an increasingly childless economy is that it has major implications for【C2】________. It is confirmed by a new data from a Gallup survey【C3】________on the average daily spending of families. Even after you control for income, age, education, and【C4】________status, families with young kids spend more every day.
What are parents spending on? Not just books, toys, and games. The Department of Agriculture【C5】________surveys the many ways we spend on our kids, to the tune of about $14,000 a year. The【C6】________majority of money goes to the【C7】________: housing, food, transportation, and education. Housing is kind of funny, because young children tend not to have their housing units,【C8】________the parents are extremely well-off and the children are terribly misbehaved. The survey estimates the housing portion of spending by trying to【C9】________a few factors: the cost of an extra bedroom, the cost of moving into safer【C10】________with better schools, and the cost of buying homes with larger yards.
It is【C11】________that on economic growth, some of the most discussed variables on editorial pages and cable news are policy choices like tax rates or international events. But buried【C12】________these headlines is the glacier of demographics, the steady and unyielding force of human numbers to【C13】________the economy. The【C14】________in U.S. birthrates in recent years has almost certainly had a negative effect on consumer spending (and【C15】________, lower birthrates are probably an outcome of the recession). In particular, childless couples don’t need space for more kids so they’re less【C16】________to buy homes in the suburbs,【C17】________demand for housing that badly needs to sell more homes. In other words,【C18】________families and less household formation【C19】________the U.S. economy of housing and transportation spending, which has historically accounted for half of family【C20】________.
【C5】
选项
A、lately
B、fairly
C、annually
D、hardly
答案
C
解析
此句表明,农业部的调查指出父母每年(a year)花在孩子身上的钱每年高达14000美元。调查结果的数据是按“每年”或“一年”来计算的,可推测其调查是每年进行的。C项annually“每年地”与a year呼应。A项lately“最近地”,表示最近农业部做了调查,但survey所用的一般现在时时态表示调查应是经常性的,两种间存在矛盾。B项fairly“相当地”常表示程度,不符合逻辑要求。D项hardly“几乎不”,表明农业部几乎不做调查,语义逻辑不对。
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