2017年12月英语四级阅读练习:选词填空(5)

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  The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well—grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile. Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged—a stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties.

  Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, __6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlinling process, a step further by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than tehordinarily child-cluttered family. A __8__ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestep this problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.

  [A] transplant

  [B] solution

  [C] gradually

  [D] transport

  [E] elemental

  [F] conflict

  [G] continually

  [H] mobile

  [I] couples

  [J] agricultural

  [K] including

  [L] compromise

  [M] requires

  [N] primary

  [O] consisting

  参考答案:

  1.选J

  2.选A

  3.选C

  4.选O

  5.选H

  6.选M

  7.选E

  8.选l

  9.选F

  10.选I


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