大学英语四级选词填空练习(十八)

大学英语四级选词填空练习（十八）

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The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but

numerous other dependents as well

—

grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions.

Such

But such families are hard to __2__. They are immobile. Industrialism

demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of

jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__

shed its excess weight and the so- called

—

a

stripped-down, portable family unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of

children. This new style family, far more __5__ than the traditional extended

family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties.

Super- industrialism, however, the next stage of eco- technological development,

__6__ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the

future to carry the streamlinling process, a step further by remaining children,

cutting the family down to its more __7__ components, aman and a woman.

Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at

navigating through education and social status, through job changes and

geographic relocations, than tehordinarily child-cluttered family. A __8__ may