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In the United States, older people rarely live with theft adult children, But in many other cultures children are expected to ca

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问题    In the United States, older people rarely live with theft adult children, But in many other cultures children are expected to care 【21】______  their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who 【22】______  with their parents 【23】______  65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai older people live 【24】______ .
   What explains these differences in living arrangements 【25】______  cultures? Modernization theory 【26】______  the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people 【27】______  in 【28】______  rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, 【29】______  a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain 【30】______  living arrangements.
   Another theory associates intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance 【31】______ . 【32】______  this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then 【33】______  their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, 【34】______  broader social changes brought 【35】______  by industrialization and urbanization, have 【36】______  the 【37】______ . In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did--a figure that is still high 【38】______  U.S. standards, but which has been 【39】______  steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are 【40】______ : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later. Although most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow old.
【36】
选项 A、undermined
B、decreased
C、diminished
D、defeated
答案A
解析 undermine意为“削弱”；decrease意为“减少，变少，降低”；diminish意为“(使)减少，(使)变小”；defeat意为“打败”。
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