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  3. The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those o

The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those o

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问题     The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current 【S1】______ marriage rate in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people in a year—is substantially higher than-it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is no longer as 【S2】______ as it was several decades ago.
    The proportion of American adults who are married 【S3】______ from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain 【S4】______ throughout their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about, 90 percent of Americans married at some period in their lives. Experts 【S5】______ that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.
    The timing of marriage has varied 【S6】______ over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The 【S7】______ age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. Besides. young adults of the 1950s married younger than any 【S8】______ generation did in U.S. history. Today’s later age of marriage is in line with the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a 【S9】______ proportion of the population was married(95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before and after. Experts do not agree on why the "marriage-rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a response to the return of peaceful life and 【S10】______ after 15 years of severe economic depression and war.

               Word Bank:
A. declined                I. predict
B. prosperity              J. larger
C. consistently            K. widespread
D unmarried                L. previous
E. increased               M. claim
F. automatically           N. average
G. recession               O. smaller
H. annual
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答案 H
解析 破折号后的about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people in a year是对current ______ marriage rate的具体说明。in a year表明此处提到的结婚率是以年为单位统计的。所以空中应填入H.annual“每年的，一年一次的”。
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