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Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothin
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2022-01-04
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Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s【C1】________in a way. All over the world, birthrates tend to fall a-long with economic development
The thing about an increasingly childless economy is that it has major implications for【C2】________. It is confirmed by a new data from a Gallup survey【C3】________on the average daily spending of families. Even after you control for income, age, education, and【C4】________status, families with young kids spend more every day.
What are parents spending on? Not just books, toys, and games. The Department of Agriculture【C5】________surveys the many ways we spend on our kids, to the tune of about $14,000 a year. The【C6】________majority of money goes to the【C7】________: housing, food, transportation, and education. Housing is kind of funny, because young children tend not to have their housing units,【C8】________the parents are extremely well-off and the children are terribly misbehaved. The survey estimates the housing portion of spending by trying to【C9】________a few factors: the cost of an extra bedroom, the cost of moving into safer【C10】________with better schools, and the cost of buying homes with larger yards.
It is【C11】________that on economic growth, some of the most discussed variables on editorial pages and cable news are policy choices like tax rates or international events. But buried【C12】________these headlines is the glacier of demographics, the steady and unyielding force of human numbers to【C13】________the economy. The【C14】________in U.S. birthrates in recent years has almost certainly had a negative effect on consumer spending (and【C15】________, lower birthrates are probably an outcome of the recession). In particular, childless couples don’t need space for more kids so they’re less【C16】________to buy homes in the suburbs,【C17】________demand for housing that badly needs to sell more homes. In other words,【C18】________families and less household formation【C19】________the U.S. economy of housing and transportation spending, which has historically accounted for half of family【C20】________.
【C7】
选项
A、commodities
B、basics
C、equipment
D、accommodations
答案
B
解析
空格后提到的住房、食物、交通和教育应是空格处所需名词的具体内容或解释。住房、食物等显然是家庭和孩子的必需品。B项basics意为“基本的物品”,可表示某事物是最需要的或最主要的。A项commodities“商品”不能涵盖transportation(交通)和education(教育)等范畴。C项equipment“设备;装备”不符合语义要求。D项accommodations“食宿”不能包含交通和教育。
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