2. 外语
  3. Commuters have a 40 per cent greater risk of ending up divorced, according to a university study. 【C1】_____ you are reading

Commuters have a 40 per cent greater risk of ending up divorced, according to a university study. 【C1】_____ you are reading

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问题     Commuters have a 40 per cent greater risk of ending up divorced, according to a university study.
     【C1】_____ you are reading this on your way to work, your marriage may already be 【C2】_____. Those who spend a long time on trains or 【C3】_____ in cars shuttling to the office are 【C4】_____ to 40 per cent more likely to 【C5】_____ from their spouse. The risk is highest in the first few years when the dream 【C6】_____the daily grind.
    Experts said that if one partner spends 45 minutes or more commuting they would come home too tired to help around the house. This would create a breeding ground for 【C7】_____ that would leave the other person feeling like they are being taken for 【C8】_____.
    The Swedish study looked at 【C9】_____ data from two million Swedish 【C10】_____. The researchers from Umea University 【C11】_____ the figure of 45 minutes as the kind of commute which could do damage 【C12】_____ relationships.
    They found that in families where the man commutes, the woman is often forced to take a 【C13】_____ qualified job closer to home, which means both less money 【C14】_____ a larger share of the family responsibility.
    Jean Hannah Edelstein, a 【C15】_____ expert, said that unless both partners are commuting, then the commuting partner is going to be 【C16】_____ a lot of the time.
    "This means they have less time to help out with the 【C17】_____ chores. The commuting partner might feel like he shouldn’t have to 【C18】_____ equal responsibility around the home 【C19】_____ he’s putting in the long hours back and 【C20】_____ to work."
【C4】
选项 A、as
B、up
C、down
D、about
答案B
解析 考查固定搭配。up to是固定词组，表示“多达”，后常常接具体的数字。这里是指那些要花很长时间乘车或驾车上下班的人离婚的可能性比其他人要高出40％。
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