We generally view the family as being one of our most stable institutions: yet, our family system has【B1】______a number of chang

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问题     We generally view the family as being one of our most stable institutions: yet, our family system has【B1】______a number of changes in the past. Two hundred years ago, marriages were often arranged by parents, with economic【B2】______being the most important factor of who married whom. Two hundred years ago, divorce was【B3】______; now, more than one out of three marriages are in【B4】______. Two hundred years ago, women did not work out of the home, and children were an economic【B5】______; now nearly 50 percent of married women work outside the home, and children are a【B6】______responsibility.
    In our【B7】______society, the family is now changing even more rapidly than it did in the past.
    In【B8】______the future of the American family, some authorities foresee the family as racing toward extinction. They say that【B9】______, and this will be its only function.
    Family optimists, on the other hand, predict the family’s entering a Golden Age--an era where【B10】______. Most sociologists, however, do not agree with either the pessimists or the optimists; instead,【B11】______, many of which will probably be thrown away, but some likely to be found satisfying and functional and gradually becoming "typical".
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答案undergone

解析 这是undergo的过去分词,意为“经历,遭受”。冒号在这里的作用是引出一个分句,对冒号之前的句子进一步说明;分句中的yet表示转折,表明这个分句是对前面内容的反向说明。从changes和stable也可以看出这一点,虽然它们词性不同,但在意义上是相反的。我们通常把the family看作是最稳定的团体之一,但是in the past我们的family system却有过a number of changes。分句中缺少一个动词,所填词和changes构成动宾搭配,表示“经历”的意思,而且所填词前的has表示此处要填入动词的过去分问。
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