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  3. The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has h

The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has h

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问题     The American baby boom made unconvincing U. S. advice to poor countries that they restrain their births. 【C1】______, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birth rates have not fallen in U. S. and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially【C2】______. Germany has fewer births than deaths, and U. S. is temporarily able to【C3】______ this condition because the children of the baby boom are now a large group of married couples.
    It is true that Americans are greatly 【C4】______ women liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid jobs and careers【C5】______, they are less willing to provide free【C6】______ for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come【C7】______seem impossibly expensive. And【C8】______ the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are unwilling to【C9】______ children to the terrible experience of marital【C10】______ and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
    These circumstances—women working outside the home and the【C11】______of marriage tend to spread【C12】______ industrial society and they will affect more countries. Along with them goes social mobility, a main factor in【C13】______ the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
    Food shortage will happen when the 【C14】______ resulting from the good harvests of 1998 have been【C15】______. Urbanization is to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling【C16】______ the weight of large populations. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the 【C17】______ place of women, and they 【C18】______ are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and【C19】______ will exceed resources. All this will【C20】______ to a population in the twenty-first century that is smaller than was feared a few years ago.
【C11】
选项 A、impossibility
B、reality
C、utility
D、instability
答案D
解析 名词辨析题。上文提到了妇女解放使更多的女性选择出去工作而不是留在家中抚养孩子，同时离婚率也上升了。由此可以断定，空格处应填入表示婚姻不稳定的词汇。[A]impossibility“不可能性”，夸大其词，应排除。[B]reality“现实性”和[C]utility“功利性”，与原文内容不符，应排除。[D]instability“不稳定性”，为答案。
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