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  3. More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th

More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th

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问题     More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context：some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.
    What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses (配偶).
    Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half brothers, and half sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant; most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?
选项 A、A typical American family consists of only a husband and a wife.
B、Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable.
C、Americans prefer to have more kids than before.
D、There are no nuclear families any more.
答案B
解析 本题是一道判断是非题。问下面哪个说法可以看做是今日美国家庭的形式。文章第二段和第三段作者谈到了美国家庭组合方式方面的巨大变化，第三段第一句是第二段的总结句和第三段的主题句：人们可以看到各种家庭组合方式。因此，本题的正确答案应是B“美国有多种社会认同的家庭组合方式”。A“典型的美国家庭仅由夫妻二人组成”。此种说法不对。C“美国人比以往更喜欢要更多的孩子”。事实上，正如第二段第三句所指出的，现在，许多夫妇选择不要孩子。后文谈到的家庭内有时出现的复杂关系仅是为了说明家庭组合方式的多样化，并非是说生的孩子多了。D“核心家庭不再存在了”。第二段第一句和第二句指出，比婚姻方式变化更大的是核心家庭的变化。25年前，典型的美国家庭由一对夫妇和两三个孩子组成。第三段第四句也指出了这一现象。但这并非是说传统的家庭已不复存在了，它仅强调了变化——无论这一变化有多大。因此，A、C和D都不是正确答案。
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