2017年6月大学英语四级阅读选词填空试题及答案18

　　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