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  3. Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18. 1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the po

Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18. 1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the po

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问题     Read the following passage and answer questions 9-18.
1. The American baby boom after the war made unconvincing advice to the poor countries that they restrain their birthrates. However, there has hardly been a year since 1957 in which birthrates have not fallen in the United States and other rich countries, and in 1976 the fall was especially sharp. Both East Germany and West Germany have fewer births than they have deaths, and the United States is only temporarily able to avoid this condition because the children of the baby boom are now an exceptionally large group of married couples.
2. It is true the American don’t typically plan their birth to set an example for developing nations. They are more affected by women’s liberation: once women see interesting and well-paid job and careers available, they are less willing to provide free labor for child raising. From costing nothing, children suddenly come to seem impossibly expensive. And to the high cost of children are added the uncertainties introduced by divorce; couples are increasingly unwilling to subject children to the terrible experience of marital breakdown and themselves to the difficulty of raising a child alone.
3. These circumstances—women working outside the home and the instability of marriage —tend to spread with industrial society and they will affect more and more countries during the remainder of this century. Along with them goes social mobility, ambition to rise in the urban world, a main factor in bringing down the births in Europe in the nineteenth century.
4. Food shortage will happen again when the reserves resulting from the food harvest of 1976 and 1977 have been consumed. Urbanization is likely to continue, with the cities of developing nations struggling under the weight of twice present population by the year 2000.
5. The presently rich countries are approaching a stable population largely because of the changed place of women, and they incidentally are setting an example of restraint to the rest of the world. Industrial society will spread to the poor countries, and aspirations will exceed resources. All this will lead to population in the 21st century smaller than was feared years ago. For those anxious to see the population brought under control, the news is encouraging.
Questions 9-13
    For questions 9~13, choose the best title for each paragraph from below.
    For each numbered paragraph(1~5), mark one letter(A~G)on the Answer Sheet.
    Do not mark any letter twice.
A. The factors bringing down the birthrate in Europe.
B. Women’s liberation affects the birthrate.
C. Birthrate in US raised after the war.
D. Bringing population under control is possible.
E. The birthrate in United States is low.
F. Food shortage and urbanization brought population under control.
G. The reasons that low-birthrate involved.
Paragraph 1: ______
选项
答案C
解析 第1段第1句点明主题：“战后人口出生率增长避免了美国人口的负增长。”这说明美国的人口一直是负增长，战后才有所回升，因此答案是C。
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