首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
外语
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. F
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. F
admin
2013-02-05
51
问题
Basic to any understanding of Canada in the 20 years after the Second World War is the country’s impressive population growth. For every three Canadians in 1945, there were over five in 1966. In September 1966 Canada’s population passed the 20 million mark. Most of this surging growth came from natural increase. The depression of the 1930’s and the war had held back marriages, and the catching-up process began after 1945. The baby boom continued through the decade of the 1950’s, producing a population increase of nearly fifteen percent in the five years from 1951 to 1956. This rate of increase had been exceeded only once before in Canada’s history, in the decade before 1911, when the prairies were being settled. Undoubtedly, the good economic conditions of the 1950’s supported a growth in the population, but the expansion also derived from a trend toward earlier marriages and an increase in the average size of families. In 1957 the Canadian birth rate stood at 28 per thousand, one of the highest in the world.
After the peak year of 1957, the birth rate in Canada began to decline. It continued falling until in 1966 it stood at the lowest level in 25 years. Partly this decline reflected the low level of births during the depression and the war, but it was also caused by changes in Canadian society. Young people were staying at school longer; more women were working; young married couples were buying automobiles or houses before starting families; rising living standards were cutting down the size of families. It appeared that Canada was once more failing into step with the trend toward smaller families that had occurred all through the Western world since the time to the Industrial Revolution.
Although the growth in Canada’s population had slowed down by 1966 (the increase in the first half of the 1960’s was only nine percent), another large population wave was coming over the horizon. It would be compared to the children of the children who were born during the period of the high birth rate prior to 1957.
What does the passage mainly discuss?
选项
A、Educational changes in Canadian society.
B、Canada during the Second World War.
C、Population trends in postwar Canada.
D、Standards of living in Canada.
答案
C
解析
主旨题。文章第一段第一句话开门见山指出了:要了解二战后20年里加拿大的情况最根本的是了解该国给人印象深刻的人口增长状况。
转载请注明原文地址:https://kaotiyun.com/show/flhK777K
0
专业英语四级
相关试题推荐
InEnglandrecentlythreeforeigngentlemenapproachedabusstop.Theystudiedtheinformationonthesign【C1】______totheco
MostAmericansspendmostoftheirleisuretimewiththemassmedia.Inaddition,mostofushear,see,orreadsomeofthemedi
Thescienceofgeneticsisaflourishingnewindustry,nourishedbythefederallyfundedHumanGenomeProject.Thisresearchis
Mostofusspendourlivesseekingthenaturalworld.Tothis【C1】______wegofishing,sitinthegarden,drinkoutsideratherth
Theprocessbymeansofwhichhumanbeingscanarbitrarilymakecertainthingsstandforotherthingsmaybecalledthesymbolic
In1967,inresponsetowidespreadpublicconcernarousedbymedicalreportsofasbestosrelateddeaths,theNationalMedicalRe
ItisacknowledgedthatthemodernmusicalshowisAmerica’smostoriginalanddynamiccontributiontowardtheater.Inthelast
Thedeclineinmoralstandards—whichhaslongconcernedsocialanalysts—hasatlastcapturedtheattentionofaverageAmericans.
Theoldcouplewerenotrichthemselves,buttheyhatedtoturnawayanyonewhowere_________foodandshelter.
随机试题
敏捷制造的基础是()
反映公司在一定暑期内经营成果的财务报表是()
正疟的治法是
临床预防方法不包括
仙灵骨葆胶囊的主要功效是()。
A.药品不良反应B.药品不良反应报告和监测C.新的药品不良反应D.药品不良反应报告的内容和统计资料E.药品严重不良反应()不作为医疗事故、医疗诉讼和处理药品质量事故的依据。
下列关于企业核心竞争力分析的表述中,正确的有()。
沉井的排水挖土下沉法适用于()。
B公司的资本目前全部由发行普通股取得,其有关资料如下表所示。B公司准备按7%的利率发行债券900000元,用发行债券所得资金以每股15元的价格回购部分发行在外的普通股。因发行债券,预计公司股权成本将上升到11%。该公司预期未来息税前利润具有可持续性,
学校的出现是社会发展到一定阶段的必然产物,世界上许多国家在进入()后出现了学校。
最新回复
(
0
)