专升本、四级英语考试解析（四十四）
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来自2009年5月28日The New York Times: Married With Bankruptcy
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/opinion/29cherlin.html?_r=1
(57) In times of economic crisis, Americans turn to their families for support. If the GREat Depression is any guide, we may see a drop in our sky-high porce rate. But this won’t necessarily represent an increase in happy marriages. In the long run, the Depression weakened American families, and the current crisis will probably do the same.
We tend to think of the Depression as a time when families pulled together to survive huge job losses. By 1932, when nearly one-quarter of the work force was unemployed, it had declined by around 25 percent from 1929. But this does not mean that people were suddenly happier with their marriages. (58) Rather, with incomes plummeting and insecure jobs, unhappy couples often couldn’t afford to porce. They feared that neither spouse would be able to manage alone.
Today, given the job losses of the past year, fewer unhappy couples will risk starting separate households. (59) Furthermore, the housing market meltdown will make it more difficult for them to finance their separations by selling their homes.
After financial disasters family members also tend to do whatever they can to help each other and their communities. A 1940 book, “The Unemployed Man and His Family,” described a family in which the husband initially reACTed to losing his job “with tireless search for work.” He was always ACTive, looking for odd jobs to do.
The problem is that such an impulse is hard to sustain. Across the country, many similar families were unable to maintain the initial boost in morale. For some, the hardships of life without steady work eventually overwhelmed their attempts to keep their families together. The rate rose again during the rest of the decade as the recovery took hold.
Millions of American families may now be in the initial stage of their responses to the current crisis, working together and supporting one another through the early months of unemployment.
(60、61) Today’s economic slump could well generate a similar backlog of coupleas whose relationships have been irreparably ruined. So it is only when the economy is healthy again that we will begin to see just how many frACTured families have been created.
57. In the initial stage, the current economic crisis is likely to ____.
A. tear many troubled families apart
B. contribute to enduring family ties
C. bring about a drop in the porce rate
D. cause a lot of conflicts in the family
答案：C
解析： 文章第一段就提到经济危机会降低离婚率。但是长远来讲，确会带来离婚率的提高。
58. In the GREat Depression many unhappy couples chose to stick together because ____.
A. starting a new family would be hard
B. they expected things would turn better
C. they wanted to beter protect their ids
D. living separately would be too costly
答案：D
解析：定位至二段尾，costly改写原文couldn’t afford.
59. In addition to job losses, what stands in the way of unhappy couples getting a porce?
A. Mounting family debts.
B. A sense if insecurity.
C. Difficulty in getting a loan.
D. Falling housing prices.
答案：D
解析：定位至三段尾，falling改写原文meltdown。
60. What will the current economic crisis eventually do to some married couples?
A. It will force them to pull their efforts together.
B. It will undermine their mutual understanding.
C. It will help strengthen their emotional bonds.
D. It will irreparably damage their relationship.
答案：D
解析：定位至末段首句，damage改写原文ruin。
61. What can be inferred from the last paragraph?
A. The economic recovery will see a higher porce rate.
B. Few couples can stand the test of economic hardships.
C. A stable family is the best protection against poverty.
D. Money is the foundation of many a happy marriage.
答案：A
解析：最后一段不过是又一次点题，危机过后离婚率上升。
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