2017年12月英语四级阅读练习：选词填空（4）
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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 "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. 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 "nuclear" family emerged—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 be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in __9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many __10__ will sidestep this problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.
[A] transplant
[B] solution
[C] gradually
[D] transport
[E] elemental
[F] conflict
[G] continually
[H] mobile
[I] couples
[J] agricultural
[K] including
[L] compromise
[M] requires
[N] primary
[O] consisting
参考答案：
1. 选J
2. 选A
3. 选C
4. 选O
5. 选H
6. 选M
7. 选E
8. 选l
9. 选F
10. 选I
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