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Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States, but divorce is becoming almost as “popular”. Most American people get married, but at the present time, fifty percent of American marriages end up in divorce. However, four out of five divorced people do not stay single. They get married a second time to new partners. Sociologists tell us that in the next century, most American people will marry three or four times in one lifetime.

Alvin Toffler, an American sociologist, calls this new social form serial marriages. In his book Future Shock, Toffler gives many reasons for this change in American marriage. In modern society, people’s lives don’t stay the same for very long. Americans frequently change their jobs, their homes, and their circle of friends. So the person who was a good husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years later. After some years of marriage, a husband or wife can feel that their lives have become very different, and they don’t share the same interests any more.

For this reason Toffler says, people in the twenty-first century will not plan to marry only one person for an entire lifetime. They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years, and then marry another. Most Americans will expect to have a “marriage career” that includes three or four marriages.

Comprehension questions

1. The word “institution” (line1) most probably means __________.

A) a social practice B) a social organization

C) a state law D) an established habit

2. In the United States ___________.

A) marriage is less popular than divorce now

B) remaining single is becoming more and more popular now

C) divorce is as popular as it was

D) remarriage is getting more popular now

3. The percentage of remarriage among divorced Americans is ____________.

A) fifty percent B) eighty percent

C) forty percent D) ninety percent

4. One of the reasons for the change in American marriages is ____________.

A) difference in interests

B) difference in making friends

C) difference in choosing jobs

D) difference in family background

5. In the twenty-first century, American’s attitude towards remarried people will be __________.

A) suspicious B) critical C) fussy D) approving

Answer 1

1.D institution有三个意思：习俗；公共团体；建立。
四个选项分别为实践，组织，法律，习惯。
翻译文中句子：在美国，婚姻仍然是一个普遍的##，很明显，选D。

2.D 四个选项分别翻译下来：A现在离婚比结婚流行
B单身越来越流行
C离婚和过去一样流行
D现在，再婚越来越流行了
个人认为C也是没问题的，但是从全文来看，主题是再婚的流行，所以D更符合

3.B 题目翻译：离婚的美国人再婚的比例是多少？
选择依据：However, four out of five divorced people do not stay single. 然而，五个离婚的人里有4个不再保持单身。五个里有四个，80%

4.A 题目翻译：美国婚姻变化的原因之一是-------
选择依据：Toffler gives many reasons for this change in American marriage. Toffler为美国婚姻的变化列出了许多原因。这是一个信号，说明答案在这一段I。Americans frequently change their jobs, their homes, and their circle of friends. After some years of marriage, a husband or wife can feel that their lives have become very different, and they don’t share the same interests any more.
换工作，房子，朋友。这些都是迷惑性的，归根到底是最后一句，夫妇之间感觉很不一样了，他们不再有相同的兴趣了。这个才是重点，因此选A。

5.D 题目翻译：在21世纪，美国人对再婚人士的态度将是------
A 怀疑的 B 批判的 C 大惊小怪的，挑剔的 D 赞成的
选择依据：Most Americans will expect to have a “marriage career” that includes three or four marriages 大多数美国人将拥有三到四次结婚的“婚姻生涯”。既然是大多数人了，就不存在前面三项，所以选D。

Answer 2

1.D
2.C
3.A
4.A
5.B

Answer 3

1.D) an established habit
2.D) remarriage is getting more popular now
3.B) eighty percent
4.A) difference in interests
5.D) approving