As human children are unusually dependent far an unusually long time, it’s obvious that every society must provide a domestic co

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问题     As human children are unusually dependent far an unusually long time, it’s obvious that every society must provide a domestic context in which the children are brought up and educated. In present-day English, the word "family" has two meanings: firstly, the (1)_____ group of parents and children; and secondly, a (2)_____ of relations who might be expected to (3)_____ at a wedding or a (4)_____. At the first level, my brothers and sisters and myself are all in the same (5)_____ as children, but in different ones as parents; but at the second (6)_____, we’re all in the same family from start to finish.
    As nuclear families become more (7)_____, families of relations become more dispersed (分散). The young mother can still talk to her Mum on the phone, but she can’t ask her to (8)_____ for a few minutes to watch the baby. Ideas about the (9)_____ of women have been changing: wives are thought to be the (10)_____ of their husbands rather than their (11)_____. But perhaps they’re more (12)_____ enslaved to their children than before. The point is that there doesn’t seem to be any (13)_____. There is a genuine (14)_____ between the right of the woman to be treated as a free and self-respected (15)_____, and the right of the child to demand care and (16)_____
    We have created for ourselves three (17)_____: social equality of men and women; (18)_____ of the marriage; and lifelong love and (19)_____ between parents and children. However, we have (20)_____ a social system in which it’s quite impossible for these factors to co-exist.


选项 A、parade
B、network
C、collection
D、framework

答案B

解析 根据此句话,family有两个含义:一个是domestic group of parents and children,另一个则是有相关关系的亲戚(relations)。parade行列、整队游行;network网、网络;collection积聚、收集物;framework构架、框架。只有network可以表示由相关的人组成的亲戚关系网。
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