公共英语考试

【单选题】In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children.But in many other cultures children are expected to care (51) their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who (52) with their parents reach 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents ;few Thai elderly live (53) .
What explains these differences in living arrangements (54) cultures Modernization theory (55) the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons.But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people behind in (56) rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States orEngland, or why families in Italy, which is fully modemized, (57) a strong tradition of intergenerational living.Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain (58) living arrangements.
Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattem of inheritance predominates. (59) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then (60) their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, as well as broader social changes brought (61) by industrialization and urbanization, have (62) the tradition. In 1960about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did - a figure that is still high (63) U.S. standards, but which has been (64) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (65) : the percentage of aged Koreans who live with a son declined from 77 percent in 1984 to 50 percent just 10 years later.Although most elderly Koreans still expect to live with a son, their adult children do not expect to live with their children when they grow olD、
A．maintain
B．promote
C．reserve
D．support

网考网参考答案：A
网考网解析：
需要填入动词的宾语是tradition，并且根据上下文的意思，该词的意思应该是“保留”。选项promote不合适，因为promote意为“推崇，提倡”，给人感觉是，这个传统以前在意大利不曾有过，而这是不符合事实的。reserve意为“(为某种特别的目的)储备，预备”，也不如maintain更恰当。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>