The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think. Although women gatherers had four or five children, only two

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问题     The trend toward smaller families may not be as modern as we think. Although women gatherers had four or five children, only two【B1】______survived childhood — the number found in the【B2】______American family today. Even our style of【B3】______children is starting to parallel hunting gathering communities, in which girls and boys are permitted to play together from a young age, and consequently experiment at sex earlier and engage in【B4】______marriages. Clearly, we’ve moved away from the agricultural custom of arranged marriages and insulating girls at home to【B5】______their virginity.
    Moreover, the home is no longer the "place of production", as it was in farm days. We don’t make our soap, grow our vegetables and kill chickens for the dinner table. Instead, we hunt and gather in the grocery store and return to our "home base" to consume the food we have collected. No wonder we are so in love with fast food. It probably goes back to an eating strategy our primate relatives【B6】______over 50 million years ago.
    There’s no mistaking the【B7】______: Humans are once again on the【B8】______. 【B9】______. 【B10】______. By equality, I mean a more equitable division of power — not that our roles will converge. Alike men and women have never been and never will be.【B11】______
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解析 空前的不定式to表明,本空应填一原形动词。前面讲现在孩子们很早就开始接触性,紧接着说这与过去的习俗不同,过去一般都是包办婚姻,并把女孩关在家里,而这样做的目的应该是“保护,保持”她们的virginity(贞操)。
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