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The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has h
The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has h
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The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birth rates have not fallen in U. S. and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially【C2】______. Germany has fewer births than deaths, and U. S. is temporarily able to【C3】______ this condition because the children of the baby boom are now a large group of married couples.
It is true that Americans are greatly 【C4】______ women liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid jobs and careers【C5】______, they are less willing to provide free【C6】______ for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come【C7】______seem impossibly expensive. And【C8】______ the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are unwilling to【C9】______ children to the terrible experience of marital【C10】______ and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
These circumstances—women working outside the home and the【C11】______of marriage tend to spread【C12】______ industrial society and they will affect more countries. Along with them goes social mobility, a main factor in【C13】______ the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
Food shortage will happen when the 【C14】______ resulting from the good harvests of 1998 have been【C15】______. Urbanization is to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling【C16】______ the weight of large populations. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the 【C17】______ place of women, and they 【C18】______ are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and【C19】______ will exceed resources. All this will【C20】______ to a population in the twenty-first century that is smaller than was feared a few years ago.
【C3】
选项
A、fight off
B、suppress
C、abstain from
D、avoid
答案
D
解析
动词辨析题。前半句提到“在德国,死亡率比出生率要高”,同为发达国家的美国只是“由于婴儿潮的那一代人现在正好到了婚育时期”而得以暂时避免这种情况,由此可以推断出空格处应填入表示“避免”的动词或动词短语。[A]fight off“排斥(逐退,不允许接近)”;[B]suppress“制止(尤指凭借武力);镇压”;[C]abstain from“戒除”。[D]avoid“回避,避免”为答案。
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