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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marri
More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marri
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2024-02-17
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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] "Part-time" children______.
选项
A、do part-time jobs to earn their living
B、spend all of their time with one parent from the previous marriage
C、are shared between the two former spouses
D、are quite unusual even in the U.S.A.
答案
C
解析
推理判断题。在最后一段第1句中,通过对比full-time和part—time的本义,以及联系上下文讲到的家庭现象,可以推断出part-time children应是指时不时和父亲或母亲生活的小孩,由此可见,选项C是正确答案。选项A毫无原文依据,B明显错误,题干中问的是part-time children,故显然不可能spend all of their time.否则修饰语就应该是full—time,选项D与“It is not all that unusual…”相悖。
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