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  3. Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m A

Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m A

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问题     Marriage, and its many ups and downs, still often【C1】______the headlines on newspapers, magazines and the airwaves. Nearly 23m Americans watched Prince William being joined in holy marriage to Kate Middleton. Millions more have【C2】______in the break-up of Arnold Schwarzenegger’s marriage after revelations that he fathered a son with a maid.
    Less【C3】______are revelations about the sorry state of marriage across the United States. Data from the Census Bureau show that married couples, for the first time, now make up【C4】______than half (45%) of all households.
    The【C5】______American family, with mom, dad and kids under one roof, is【C6】______. In every state the numbers of unmarried couples, childless households and single-person households are growing faster than【C7】______comprised of married people with children, finds the 2010【C8】______. The latter accounted【C9】______43% of households in 1950, but now just 20%. And the trend has a distinct【C10】______dimension. Traditional marriage has【C11】______from a universal rite to a luxury for the educated and the【C12】______.
    There【C13】______was a marriage gap in 1960: only four percentage points separated the wedded ways of college and high-school graduates (76% versus 72%). The gap has since【C14】______to 16 percentage points, according to the Pew Research Centre. A Census Bureau analysis released this spring found that brides are significantly more【C15】______to have a college degree than they were in the mid-1990s.
    "Marriage has become much more【C16】______, and that’s why the divorce rate has come down," said Bradford Wilcox, director of the National Marriage Project at the University of Virginia in Charlottesville. The project found that divorce rates for couples with college degrees are only a third as high as for those with a high-school degree.
    "Less marriage means less income and more poverty," reckons Isabel Sawhill, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution. She and other researchers have【C17】______as much as half of the inequality of wealth 18 in America to changes in family【C19】______: single-parent families (mostly those with a high-school degree or less) are getting poorer while married couples (with educations and dual incomes) are increasingly【C20】______. "This is a striking gap that is not well understood by the public," she says.
【C16】
选项 A、unpopular
B、sophisticated
C、selective
D、diversified
答案C
解析 根据上文的意思“结婚已经不是人人都可以承受得起的，它呈现出越来越强烈的阶级差异”。空格后面的几句话都是在讨论由于婚姻状况的变化造成离婚率的下降，因为本身结婚的人就少，而结婚的很多都是受过高等教育的人，因此自然离婚率就下降了。因此空格处填一个形容词，要能够反映作者在讨论的婚姻出现的主要变化，[A]选项unpopular表示“不受欢迎的”，用在这里不恰当，作者并不是笼统地讨论婚姻在美国不再受重视，而是讨论不等阶层的人婚姻状况的差异。[B]选项sophisticated表示“世故的，圆滑的，复杂的，有经验的”，用在这里过于笼统，无法准确概括作者的意思。[C]选项selective表示“有选择性的”。[D]选项diversified表示“多元化的”。最佳答案应该选[C]，婚姻不再是一种大众消费品，而成为了一种选择性很强的奢侈消费品。
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