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The Marriage Rate in U. S.
The
United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other
industrialized countries. The current annual marriage
1 in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every
1,000 people—is 2 higher than it is in
other industrialized countries. However, marriage is 3
as widespread as it was several decades ago.
4 of American adults who are married
5 from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does
not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried
6 their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about
90 percent of Americans married at some 7
in their lives. Experts 8 that
about the same proportion of today’s young adults will eventually
marry.
The timing of marriage has varied
9 over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women
in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age
of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time
at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s.
10 , young adults of the 1950s married younger
than did any previous 11 in U.S.
history. Today’s later age of marriage is 12
the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater
proportion of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at
any time before 13 . Experts do not
agree on why the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most
social scientists believe it represented a 14
to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of
severe economic 15 and war.
A. rate
B. ratio
C. percentage
D. poll
[填空题]Last year’s economy in the United States should have won the Oscar(奥斯卡奖) for best picture. Growth in gross domestic product was 4.1 percent; profits soared up; exports flourished; and inflation (通贷膨胀) stayed around 3 percent for the third year. So why did so many Americans give the picture only a B rating The answer is jobs. The macroeconomic (宏观经济的) situation was good, but the microeconomie (微观经济的) numbers were not. Yes, 3 million new jobs were there, but not enough of them were permanent, good jobs paying enough to support a family.
Job insecurity was not good. Even as they announced higher sales and profits, corporations acted as if they were in a loss, cutting 516,069 jobs in 1994 alone, almost as many as in the bad year of 1991.
Yes, unemployment went down. But over 1 million workers were so discouraged they left the labor force. More than 6 million who wanted full time work were only partially employed; and another large group was either sheltered behind self emplo
