题目内容
More surprising，perhaps，than the present 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 drop in the early l950s，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 30 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 was made up 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 former 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 great 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．
71．By calling American marrying people the author means that .
A．Americans are more traditional than Europeans
B．Americans expect more out of marriage than Europeans
C．there are more married couples in U．S．A．than in Europe
D．more of Americans，as compared with Europeans，prefer marriage and they accept it at a younger age
72．Divorced Americans .
A．prefer the way they live B．will most likely to remarry
C．have lost faith in marriage D．are the vast majority of people in the society
73．Which of the following can be presented as the picture of today’s American families?
A．Many types of family arrangements have become socially acceptable．
B．A typical American family is made up of only a husband and a wife．
C．Americans prefer to have more kids than before．
D．There are no nuclear families any more．
74．“Part time” children .
A．spend some of their time with their half brothers and some of their time with their half sisters
B．spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriage
C．are shared between the two former spouses
D．can not stay with “full time” children
75．Even though great changes have taken place in the structure of American families， .
A．the vast majority of Americans still have faith in marriage
B．the functions of marriage remain unchanged
C．most Americans prefer a second marriage
D．most divorced Americans would rather not remarry
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It was a lazy morning during the Christmas week. We were enjoying breakfast when the doorbell rang. It was a little girl, standing at the doorway with a piece of paper and a face that carried an expression of want, rather a common 1 during Christmas.
She murmured that the paper was her booklist and that she was going around 2 money to buy her schoolbooks. My children went inside and brought some 3 for her. This kind of incident happens very often in my hometown, 4 during Christmas.
From where I was seated, I could see her clearly. She looked about ten years old and she wore a dress too big for her. She spoke in a 5 voice and looked at me straight in the eye. Something made me get up and 6 her.
In answer to my questions, she said that her mother made hoppers and she 7 them before going to school. But the hopper money was not adequate to 8 the list; therefore, she was going from house to house asking for help.
Her voice told me the story; her eyes told me that it was 9 . I said I'd buy her what was on the list.
We drove to a nearby bookstore. She sat 10 , with a strange look on her face. When the clerk was taking all the things on the list, the little girl kept staring as if confused. Perhaps she had never 11 so many new things before. They were merely exercise books, pencils, pens and such things. She whispered her 12 to us. Strange, I hadn't been aware that giving such 13 things to one in need, could bring me such a lot of happiness.
As we drove back, I could see the little girl in the mirror. All the gifts I had given in my life never 14 up a face so much. She was grasping the parcel, smiling to herself. The total event made us all very 15 . Our Christmas became more meaningful.
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