首页
登录
职称英语
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marri
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marri
游客
2023-11-09
19
管理
问题
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.
Thus, one can find the very type of family arrangement. There are marriages without children; marriages with children from only the present marriage; marriages with "full-time" children from the present marriage and "part-time" children from former marriages. There are step-fathers, step-mothers, 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. [br] As great changes have taken place in the structure of American families,
选项
A、the functions of marriage remain unchanged.
B、most Americans don’t mind a second marriage.
C、most Americans still have faith in marriage.
D、the concept of nuclear family is modernized.
答案
C
解析
文章最后一句表明不论美国社会如何改变,大多数美国人仍然保持结婚的状态,也就是说他们仍然对婚姻抱着信心,因此,C说法正确。原文并未讨论婚姻的功能,故A不对;B并无依据:D中的nuclearfamily在第2段开头提及,但原文没有关于核心家庭“现代化”的内容。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3171796.html
相关试题推荐
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
1 Surprisingly,nooneknowshowmanychildrenreceiveeducationinEnglishhos
Whatisthespeaker’sfieldofstudy?[br][originaltext]I’mcurrentlystu
Itis,inmy______opinion,perhapsthebeststeakrestaurantinGreatBritain.A、
Inthefaceofunexpecteddifficulties,hedemonstratedatalentforquick,____
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
Howdoesliterarystyleevolve?Surprisingly,(1)_____lieinwordswithseem
随机试题
机动车在道路上发生故障,需要停车排除时,驾驶人应该怎么办?()A.将车停在道路
配置POP3服务器时,邮件服务器中默认开放TCP的( )端口。A.21 B.
A.香砂平胃散加减 B.大承气汤加减 C.养脏散加减 D.少腹逐瘀汤加减
发生下列( )事项时,发承包双方应当按照合同约定调整合同价款。A、工程变更
治疗失眠,健忘,心悸,自汗出,应选用的药物是A.朱砂 B.酸枣仁 C.合欢皮
采用支出法核算国民收入,核算国内生产总值的项目有:A.消费B.投资C.净出口D
下列关于历史文化名城保护规划的表述,不正确的是()。(2008年真题)A.
简述智力激励法。
避税型证券组合通常投资于(),这种债券免缴联邦税,也常常免缴州税和地方税。
正常人的平均脉搏为72次/分,测定其中100人,平均为78次/分,标准差为5次/
最新回复
(
0
)