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The Marriage Rate in U. S. The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialize

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问题                      The Marriage Rate in U. S.
    The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage【C1】______in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people—is【C2】______higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is【C3】______as widespread as it was several decades ago.【C4】______of American adults who are married【C5】______from 72 percent in 1070 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numhers of people will remain Unmarried【C6】______their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some【C7】______in their lives. Experts【C8】______that about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually marry.
    The timing of marriage has varied【C9】______over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s. 【C10】______, young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous【C11】______in U. S. history. Today’s later age of marriage is【C12】______the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married(95 percent)during the 1050s than at any time before【C13】______. Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a【C14】______to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic【C15】______and war.
【C14】
选项 A、refusal
B、realization
C、response
D、reality
答案C
解析 句意为：但是大部分社会科学家相信它象征着对回归和平生活和繁荣景象的一种一。四个选项：refusal“拒绝”；realization“实现”；response“反应，回应”；reality“现实”。
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