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Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m A
Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m A
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2014-10-24
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Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m Americans watched Prince William being joined in holy marriage to Kate Middleton. Millions more have【C2】______in the break-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s marriage after revelations that he fathered a son with a maid.
Less【C3】______are revelations about the sorry state of marriage across the United States. Data from the Census Bureau show that married couples, for the first time, now make up 【C4】______than half(45%)of all households.
The【C5】______American family, with mom, dad and kids under one roof, is【C6】______. In every state the numbers of unmarried couples, childless households and single-person households are growing faster than【C7】______comprised of married people with children, finds the 2010【C8】______. The latter accounted【C9】______43% of households in 1950, but now just 20%. And the trend has a distinct【C10】______dimension.
Traditional marriage has【C11】______from a universal rite to a luxury for the educated and the【C12】______.
There【C13】______was a marriage gap in 1960: only four percentage points separated the wedded ways of college and high-school graduates(76% versus 72%). The gap has since【C14】______to 16 percentage points, according to the Pew Research Centre. A Census Bureau analysis released this spring found that brides are significantly more【C15】______to have a college degree than they were in the mid-1990s.
" Marriage has become much more【C16】______, and that’s why the divorce rate has come down," said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The project found that divorce rates for couples with college degrees are only a third as high as for those with a high-school degree.
" Less marriage means less income and more poverty," reckons Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She and other researchers have【C17】______as much as half of the inequality of wealth【C18】______in America to changes in family【C19】______: single-parent families(mostly those with a high-school degree or less)are getting poorer while married couples(with educations and dual incomes)are increasingly【C20】______. "This is a striking gap that is not well understood by the public," she says.
【C2】
选项
A、relieved
B、defended
C、indulged
D、obsessed
答案
C
解析
第一段第一句话中说“婚姻,伴随着其中的起起伏伏(ups and downs)仍然经常是大众所关注的焦点”。后举了两个例子,分别对应ups和downs两个词,一个是正面的例子,即威廉王子大婚;而另一个例子则是负面的,即施瓦辛格的丑闻,他在结婚多年之后突然爆出和仆人发生关系并且育有一个私生子。根据上下文的意思,我们首先可以将[A]选项relieved和[B]选项defended排除,relieve表示“宽慰”,defend表示“为……辩护”,这两个词不符合句义。[C]和[D]两个选项在意思上都可以讲得通,但是obsessed一词往往用在被动语态中,且和介词with搭配,因此正确答案应该选[C],indulged一词的意思表示“纵情于……,放纵自己……”。这句话的意思是说“许多人对谈论施瓦辛格的家丑乐此不疲”。
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