In the past, American families (36) to be quite large. Parents (37) five or more children were common. Over the years, the (38) of the family has decreased. One mason for this is an increase in the (39) of living. (40) the average, children attend schools for more years than they used to, making them (41) dependent on their families longer. Moreover, children nowadays are better (42) , and have more money to spend on (43) . The parents usually take the responsibility (44) all the expenses.
Meanwhile, families are less close than they used to be. More and more American mothers (45) away from home. The break-up of the family occurs when the parents (46) . A lot of children in the USA. live part of their young lives with only one parent. Broken families usually result (47) problems for children and parents alike. Children blame themselves when their parents separate. They grow up feeling (
A. level
B. standard
C. wage
D. cost
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Millions of families sat down in their living rooms one evening last August to watch a live Madonna Concert from France, telecast on the cable network Home Box Office. Because Madonna. is such a huge international star--and because the telecast was heavily promoted and aired in prime time on a weekend--millions of children certainly watched with their parents.
What happened on all those screens was that Madonna repeatedly used the one obscene word that has been routinely barred from the public airwaves.
We live in an anything - goes age, so the show’ s witless and purposely vulgar content was not surprising. The language itself was nothing that has not been heard in movies or on cable - TV comedy specials. The surprising thing was that so few parents called HBO to object. A spokesperson for the network said the complaints" were not by any stretch of the imagination overwhelming"--and that the Madonna con cert was the highest -
A. Quite a few parents called HBO to object.
B. They regarded it as the highest rated original entertainment program in the network' s history.
C. They were outraged.
D. They didn' t care much about it.
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