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  3. It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married woman in possession of a large fortune will probably spend most of it on h

It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married woman in possession of a large fortune will probably spend most of it on h

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问题     It is a truth universally acknowledged that a married woman in possession of a large fortune will probably spend most of it on her husband and children. That seems to be the conclusion of a study by the Pew Research Centre in Washington, DC, of the lives of Americans aged 30-44, those most likely to have young families. Whereas in earlier generations marriage allowed women to achieve economic security, now, it appears, men are more likely to benefit.
    The root cause is the spread of women’s higher education. For the first time in American history there are more female than male college graduates among this age group. In contrast, in 1970, almost twice as many men as women in this group, 30-44, had college degrees. The result is that in the half of households where one partner has more education, it is now more likely to be the wife who has more. In 1970, it was usually the husband.
    Income tends to rise with education, and women’s earnings have risen relative to men’s at every level of schooling. Men’s income is still, on average, higher, but women have been narrowing the gap and adding more to household earnings. A few wives contributed more than their men: in 1970 only 4% earned more than their husbands; in 2007 22% did.
    That represented a rise in social mobility. But with it went an apparent decline in another aspect of mobility: more people seem to be marrying within their education and income bracket, especially at the top. The best educated and highest-earning husbands in 2007 were more likely to have the highest-income wives than was the case in 1970. At the bottom of the education heap, too, men are less likely to have wives who earn a lot. Forty years ago, half of husbands who dropped out of high school had wives who earned more than the average for women; now just 30% do.
    That is an exception to the rule that, as the report says, "the economic gains from marriage have accrued more to men than to women." But there is one other way in which the growing economic influence of women increases their power within marriage. According to Pew, in households where the husband earns more, women are still just as likely to make the final decisions regarding household finances; where the wife earns more, she is more than twice as likely to do so.
In a sense, social mobility apparently______because more people tend to choose a partner with similar education and income.
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答案declined
解析 分析句子结构可知，本空应填一表示social mobility变化情况的动词(短语)。题干中because引导的原因状语从句是对第四段 第二句冒号后面的句子的同义转述，其中的more people tend to与morepeople seem to对应，choose a partner with similar education and income与be marrying within their education and income bracket对应，In a sense与inanother aspect对应，social mobility apparently…是对前半句提到的an ap—parent decline in…mobility的同义转述，故decline为本题答案出处。因为题干将文中的名词短语转化为了句子，故将名词decline转化为动词即可。根据文中该句的谓语went可知，本题需要填入过去式形式的declined。
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