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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and th
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2013-10-17
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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and thriving. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people: relative to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. Moreover, after a decline in the early 1970s, the rate of marriage in the United States is now increasing. Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context:some 80 percent of divorced individuals remarry. Thus, marriage remains, by far, the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our society.
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty five years ago, the typical American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. Now, there are many marriages in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at least some of the children are from the wife’s previous marriage, or the husband’s, or both. Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the former marriage; sometimes they are shared between the two former spouses (配偶).
Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from both the present and former marriages; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are stepfathers, stepmothers, half brothers, and half sisters. It is not all that unusual for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents! These are enormous changes from the traditional nuclear family. But even so, even in the midst of all this, there remains one constant; most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
By calling Americans marrying people the author means that______.
选项
A、Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B、Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C、there are more married couples in USA than in Europe
D、more of Americans, as compared with Europeans, prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
答案
D
解析
本题是一道涉及句子含义类问题。问作者将美国人称为喜欢婚配的民族是什么意思。利用查阅式阅读法,我们发现文章第一段第二句指出,在斯考尔尼克看来,美国人是喜欢婚配的,因为,同欧洲人相比,他们有更多的人选择婚配生活而且结婚较早。因此,本题的正确答案应是D。A“美国人比欧洲人更传统”。文章中并没提到这点,而且这种说法也是不符合文章内容的。虽然美国人喜欢婚配生活,但婚配及家庭组合的方式已发生了很大的变化,这正是文章第二段和第三段也是全文旨在说明的。B“同欧洲人相比,美国人对婚姻的期望值更高”。本文只谈了美国婚姻家庭的变化这一现象,并未谈产生这一变化的社会或思想根源。第一段第一句是全文的主题:传统的婚姻方式目前出现了危机(或困难),但比这更令人意想不到的是婚姻本身却活力十足,正在蓬勃发展。C“同欧洲相比,美国有更多的已婚者”。虽然这句话也可理解为美国人婚配比例大,但是,它与正确答案D相比是片面的——美国人比欧洲人结婚早。
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