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"You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage," declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller "Sex and the Single

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问题     "You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage," declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller "Sex and the Single Girl". To Brown, solo living afforded the【C1】______to cultivate the self, furnish the mind and work late, and so on. Young women【C2】______enjoy their best years without a(n) 【C3】______, she advised, as this not only【C4】______the foundation for stronger marriages【C5】______gave them a lifestyle to fall back on【C6】______they found themselves alone again.
   【C7】______at the time, Brown’s counsel seems sensible now. Certainly both【C8】______have taken it to heart, marrying later, divorcing【C9】______and living alone in larger numbers than ever before.【C10】______little is known about the wider social【C11】______of this unprecedented boom, writes Eric Kli-nenberg, a sociologist at New York University. His new book "Going Solo" offers a【C12】______look at the lures and perils of living alone.
    Mr Klinenberg【C13】______those who see the rise of solo living as yet another【C14】______of the decline of civic society.【C15】______marriage is no longer the ticket to adulthood, a desire to live alone is perfectly【C16】______, he writes. Young adults view it as a rite of passage, a period of personal growth before possibly【C17】______. Its cultural acceptance has helped to【C18】______women from bad marriages and oppressive families,【C19】______them a space to return to civic life. And as elderly adults live longer than ever before, often without a partner, many hope to stay【C20】______for as long as possible.
【C7】
选项 A、Sensitive
B、Senseless
C、Sentimental
D、Sensational
答案D
解析 空格处填入的形容词，是描述上文第1段Brown的看法。空格填入的词应与下文的sensible now形成鲜明对比，D项Sensational指“轰动的”，符合句意，指该观点在当时非常另类，而现在已变得普遍。
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