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More surprising, perhaps, than the current difficulties of traditional marriage is the fact that marriage itself is alive and __62__. As Skolnick notes, Americans are a marrying people - __63__ to Europeans, more of us marry and we marry at a younger age. __64__ , after a decline in the early 1970s, the __65__ of marriage in the United States is now __66_ . Even the divorce rate needs to be taken in this pro-marriage context - some 80 percent of __67__ individuals remarry. __68__, marriage remains by far the preferred way of life for the vast majority of people in our remarry,
What has changed more than marriage is the nuclear family. Twenty-five years age, the __69__ American family consisted of a husband, a wife, and two or three children. __70__ there are many marriage in which couples have decided not to have any children. And there are many marriages where at __71__ some of the children are from the wife’s __72__ marriage, or the husband’s or both . Sometimes these children spend all of their time with one parent from the __73_ marriage ; __74__ they are shared between the two former parents.
Thus, one can find every type of family arrangement. There are marriages __75__ children; marriages with children from only the __76__ marriage; marriages with “full-time” children from both the present and former marriage; __77__ with “full time” children from the present marriage and “part-time” children from former marriages. It is not all that __78__ for a child to have four parents and eight grandparents ! These are __79__ changes from the traditional nuclear family. __80_ even so ，even in the midst of all this， __81__ one constant : most Americans spend most of their adult lives married.
62.A)surviving B)thriving C)booming D)existing
63.A)general B)regular C)relative D)essential
64.A)Therefore B)Nevertheless C)However D)Moreover
65.A)gap B)length C)rate D)interval
66.A)improving B)increasing C)raising D)decreasing
67.A)divorced B)separated C)isolated D)broken
68.A)Again B)Whereas C)Then D)Thus
69.A)typical B)conservative C) traditional D) fashionable
70.A)Before B)Then C)So D)Now
71.A)least B)most C)best D)worst
72.A)primitive B)prior C)previous D)preliminary
73.A)last B)later C)latter D)former
74.A)usually B)sometimes C)rarely D)seldom
75.A)with B)except C)without D)besides
76.A)late B)past C)present D)future
77.A)affection B)happiness C)loves D)marriages
78.A)usual B)unusual C)normal D)common
79.A)enormous B)considerable C)numerous D)giant
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