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[单项选择]Two weeks ago, I placed an order on Amazon. com for a book titled Love and Consequences. The memoir’s dust jacket promised a story of a young woman, named Margaret B. Jones, who survived Los Angeles gang life--and lived to tell about it.
Problem is. The telling is a 300-page lie.
Before the author’s older sister notified the publisher that the book was made-up, New York Times book critic Michiko Kakutani wrote glowingly, "She captures the brutal realities of a place where children learn to sleep on the floor to avoid the random bullets that might come smashing through the windows and walls at night... She conveys the extraordinary stoicism (坚忍克已) of women like Big Morn, her foster mother, who raised four grandchildren while working a day job and a night job."
But in fact, the name Margaret B. Jones was a pseudonym for Margaret Seltzer, a young woman who, according to a subsequent story in The Times, "grew up with her biological family in the prosperous Sherman Oaks
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[单项选择]Life used to be so simple a generation or two ago. A mother, father and their kids, all living together under one roof. But now, the (67) of the American household has changed into a web of relationships, forever changing the way families (68) their money.
The rise of divorce, remarriage and living out of wedlock (婚姻生活) have changed the family unit into an (69) network of step-relatives and (70) a series of financial challenges. More than 40% of American adults have at least one step-relative, such as a son or daughter (71) a spouse’s former relationship, in their family. Experts say that is up (72) from just 50 years ago.
These new families, often called (73) families, meld (使合并) kids from one marriage with those from another. Americans are also creating new types of households (74) starting second families later in life or adopting kids. And the trend is only (75) .Anywhere from 52% to 62% of a
