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  3. More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and【C1

More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and【C1

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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【C1】, As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people:【C2】to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age.【C3】. after a decline in the early 1970s, the【C4】of marriage in the United States is now【C5】. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context — some 80 percent of【C6】individuals remarry.【C7】, 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【C8】American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children.【C9】, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at【C10】some of the children are from the wife’s【C11】marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the【C12】marriage;【C13】they are shared between the two former parents.
    Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages【C14】children; marriages with children from only the【C15】marriage;【C16】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【C17】for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are【C18】changes from the traditional nuclear family.【C19】even so, even in the midst of all this, there【C20】one constant — most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
【C18】
选项 A、enormous
B、considerable
C、numerous
D、giant
答案A
解析 语义衔接题。从文中所描述的现代婚姻的情况来看，现在的家庭和传统的核心家庭有很大的区别，A)enormous“巨大的，极大的”，用来修饰changes，符合文意。B)considerable“相当大的”，通常与不可数名词或amount之类表数量的词连用。C)numerous“许多的，无数的”通常指数量。D)giant“巨大的”一般用来修饰体积。
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