2016年12月英语四级阅读选词填空经典习题（6）

　　Section A

　　Directions：In this section，there is a passage with ten blanks.You are required to select one word for each blank from a list of choices given in a word bank following the passage.Read the passage through carefully before making your choices.Each choice in the bank is identified by a letter Please mark the corresponding letter for each item on Answer Sheet 2 with a single line through the centre.You may not use any of the words in the bank more than once.

　　Questions 36 to 45 are based on the following passage.

　　The typical preindustrial family not only had a good many children，but numerous other dependents as wellgrandparents，uncles，aunts and cousins.Such “extended” families were suited for survival in slow paced _36_ societies.But such families are hard to__37___.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 38 shed its excess weight and the so called “nuclear” family emergeda strippeddown，portable family unit___39___0nly of parents and a small set of children.

　　This new style of family, far more___40___than the traditional extended family，became the standard model in all the industrial countries.Super-industrialism，however, the next stage of ec0technological development，___41___ even higher mobility.Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlining process，a step further by remaining children，cutting the family down to its more___42___components，a man 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 the ordinarily childcluttered family.A___43___maybe the postponement of children，rather than childlessness.Men and women today are often torn in___44___between a commitment to career and a commitment to children.In the future，many___45___will side aside this problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.