Of all the fancily members, grandparents are probably the least valued. They are just the people who have always been around. They make a fuss over the children in file family, show off to their friends the achievement of this child or that child, and show countless pictures of new babies. Grandfathers can fix anything, and grandmothers always have homemade biscuits around.
When you are small, it’s fun to stay with your grandparents because they always let you do things you can’t do at home, and, of course, they buy you things. They are always able to babysit(照看小孩) because they don’t go out much and actually prefer to see their grandchildren. They are usually good for a small loan now and then that doesn’t need to be paid back because they turn it into a gift. You respectfully listen to their advice but don’t follow it because they are old and don’t understand how things are in this day and age. You thank them politely for what they do
A. the most important among family members
B. the least important people among family members
C. the ones at whom their children or grandchildren usually laugh
D. the ones whom their children or grandchildren respect most
Of all the fancily members, grandparents are probably the least valued. They are just the people who have always been around. They make a fuss over the children in file family, show off to their friends the achievement of this child or that child, and show countless pictures of new babies. Grandfathers can fix anything, and grandmothers always have homemade biscuits around.
When you are small, it’s fun to stay with your grandparents because they always let you do things you can’t do at home, and, of course, they buy you things. They are always able to babysit(照看小孩) because they don’t go out much and actually prefer to see their grandchildren. They are usually good for a small loan now and then that doesn’t need to be paid back because they turn it into a gift. You respectfully listen to their advice but don’t follow it because they are old and don’t understand how things are in this day and age. You thank them politely for what they do
A. looking after their grandchildren
B. buying things for the whole family
C. teaching their grandchildren how to study
D. helping the children with repairs in the family
Passage 5
Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing. Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical and ideational mobility.
A great increase in spatial mobility bas gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on fatally continuity and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is remo
A. potential disorganization is present in the American family
B. social development results iii a decline in the importance of traditional families
C. the movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status
D. family disorganization is more or less the result of mobility
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