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  The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous otherdependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families weresuited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They areimmobile. Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land inpursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shedits excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portablefamily 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 industrialcounties.

  Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development,__6__ evenhigher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry thestreamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more__7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will provemore efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes andgeographic relocations, than tehordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be thepostponement 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 sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until afterretirement.

  A)transplant

  B)solution

  C)gadually

  D)transport

  E)elemental

  F)conflict

  G)continually

  H)mobile

  I)couples

  J)agricultural

  K)including

  L)compromise

  M)requires

  N)primary

  O)consisting

  答案解析:

  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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