| The traditional two-parent family is
fast giving way in the America of the 1980s to households in which one adult
must juggle the often enormous demands of making a living and raising
children. For many, single parenthood is synonymous with economic need. More than 3 million single-parent families live in poverty, according to The Census Bureau, and joblessness, plus cuts in public assistance, has helped drive up the number of poor children in such families by about 20 percent in Just three years. The biggest burden falls on households that are headed by single mothers. Nearly half of these families are below the poverty "as" the most compelling social fact "of the last 10 years". This deprivation is not only hard on its victims but expensive for taxpayers since single women and their offspring receives 40 to 80 percent of the benefits A. (A) Another 3 million of them live in poverty. B. (B) The number of them increased by about 20 percent in just three years. C. (C) The number of them increased by about 3 percent in the 1980s. D. (D) They were not affected at all. [单项选择]The traditional two-parent family is fast giving way in the America of the 1980s to households in which one adult must juggle the often enormous demands of making a living and raising children.
For many, single parenthood is synonymous with economic need. More than 3 million single-parent families live in poverty, according to The Census Bureau, and joblessness, plus cuts in public assistance, has helped drive up the number of poor children in such families by about 20 percent in Just three years. The biggest burden falls on households that are headed by single mothers. Nearly half of these families are below the poverty "as" the most compelling social fact "of the last 10 years". This deprivation is not only hard on its victims but expensive for taxpayers since single women and their offspring receives 40 to 80 percent of the benefits in various welfare programs that cost the government a total of 40 billion dollars a year. Despite cuts in benefits averaging 10 pe A. Another 3 million of them live in poverty. B. The number of them increased by about 20 percent in just three years. C. The number of them increased by about 3 percent in the 1980s. D. They were not affected at all. [简答题]Being a good parent is harder now that it has ever been before. In pressurized modern lives, demands to be a fulfilled individual, and a good partner and a good worker, take no account of being a good parent. (46)We haven’t left space for the nurturing parents to care for their children and provide the kind of care that their children need, resulting in the fact that many families in the western world just don’t work.
Most of us have a bit of yearning for a table full of children descending neatly in size, the older ones helping the younger ones. Let’s control our nostalgia: that" traditional family" had many faults, not least in the roles it imposed on females. (47) The problem is that in the last generation or so we’ve come to assume that women should be able and want to do everything that both men and women have done by tradition. And it’s just not possible. Indeed since adopting a male agenda in life is probably only another form of the traditional ethics that me [填空题]Being assertive(过分自信) is being able to communicate with other people clearly. If you felt that you had expressed what was important to you and allowed the others
to respond their own way, then, regardless of the final outcome, 62.______ you behaved assertively. It is important to remember that being assertive refers to a way of coping with confrontations. It does not mean getting your own way every time or winning some battles with another person. In 63.______ practice, assertive behavior is usually most likely to produce a result which is generally acceptable to all concerned, without anyone feel that they have been 64.______ unfairly treated. Assertiveness is often wrongly confusing with aggression. An aggressive 65.______ confrontation is when one or both parties attempt to put forward their feelings and beliefs at the expense of others. In an asserti 我来回答: 提交
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