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Some marriages seem to collapse so suddenly that you’d need a crystal ball t

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问题     Some marriages seem to collapse so suddenly that you’d need a crystal ball to predict their demise(灭亡). In other cases, though, the seeds of marital【C1】______are not only easier to see but they may be planted even before the honeymoon bills come【C2】______According to UCLA psychologist Thomas
    Bradbury, Ph. D., the way a newlywed【C3】______when his or her spouse is facing a personal problem is a surprisingly good window into their marital future.
    Bradbury and Lauri Pasch, Ph. D., invited 57 couples, all married less than six months, to discuss a difficulty that each partner was having. While some couples proved to be superstars at providing emotional support, others were【C4】______inept(笨拙的).     Two years later, nine of the couples had already【C5】______and five other marriages were intact but hanging by a thread. These 14 couples, it turned out, had been far less likely to provide support to one another as newlyweds than the other 43 couples whose marriages were【C6】______Bradbury thinks a couple’s【C7】______to help each other through tough times is what often blossoms into full-fledged marital discord—and【C8】______divorce.
    All of which suggests an obvious antidote to the sky-high divorce rate: if couples can learn how to provide emotional support before they marry, they【C9】______a better chance of staying together. The trouble, Bradbury says, is that couples who go for premarital【C10】______—where they can learn such skills—tend to be the ones with a lesser risk for marital problems in the first place.
    A)thriving B)comments C)inability D)regretfully
    E)committing F)dissolution G)stand H)intends
    I)due J)reacts K)ultimately L)durable
    M)split N)regularly O)counseling [br] 【C4】
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答案 D
解析 空格位于be动词和形容词之间，应为副词修饰形容词。inept“笨拙的”含有消极含义，因此选regretfully“遗憾地”，与while分句中的providing emotional support形成对照。
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