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Living Alone Is Joyful More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partne
Living Alone Is Joyful More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partne
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2014-09-13
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Living Alone Is Joyful
More and more Americans are living alone. Some live alone because of divorce or the death of a partner. 【B1】______According to a recent U. S. census(人口普查), 25 percent of all households in the U.S. are made up of just one person. This is a dramatic change from the extended families of just a couple of generations ago.
The typical person living alone is neither old nor lonely.【B2】______The majority of these people have chosen to live alone. They are responding to decreasing social pressure to get married and have a family.
It’s now socially acceptable, even fashionable, to live alone. As people get better jobs and become financially independent, it becomes possible for them to maintain a one-person household.【B3】______ owever, people who do get married are marrying at a later age and divorcing more often.
The number one reason given by most people for living alone is that they simply enjoy doing what they want when they want to do it. "Living alone is a luxury, "says Nina Hagiwara, 33. "Once you do it, you can’t ever go back to living with others, " David C’Debaca, 46, agrees.【B4】______
Children think that being grown up means being able to do exactly as they please.【B5】______ The chance to discover whether that freedom is as wonderful as it sounds is a chance more and more Americans are taking.
A. There’ s more pressure to get married nowadays.
B. The growing number of women with good jobs has done much to increase the number of people living alone.
C. However, even more people are living alone because they have chosen to.
D. It seems that many grown-ups today are realizing that childhood dream.
E. In fact, a quarter of the 23 million single people in the U. S. are under the age of 35.
F. He says, " I like being by myself. "
【B1】
选项
答案
C
解析
在第一段开始,作者就提到“越来越多的美国人过着单身生活”,紧接着讲述了“一些人过着单身生活的原因是离婚或者配偶的去世”。选项中只有C项“更多的美国人过单身生活的原因是他们选择了这种生活方式”是与此相关联的。
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