The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous otherdependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousions. Such "extended" families weresuited for survival in slow paced __1__ societies. But such families are hard to __2__. They areimmobile. Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land inpursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family __3__ shedits excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portablefamily unit __4__ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more__5__ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrialcounties.

　　Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development,__6__ evenhigher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry thestreamlinling process, a stePfurther by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more__7__ components, aman and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will provemore efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes andgeographic relocations, than tehordinarily child-cluttered family.A __8__ may be thepostponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in__9__ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many__10__ will sidestePthis problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until afterretirement.

　　A)transplant

　　B)solution

　　C)gadually

　　D)transport

　　E)elemental

　　F)conflict

　　G)continually

　　H)mobile

　　I)couples

　　J)agricultural

　　K)including

　　L)compromise

　　M)requires

　　N)primary

　　O)consisting

　　答案解析：

　　1. 選J

　　2. 選A

　　3. 選C

　　4. 選O

　　5. 選H

　　6. 選M

　　7. 選E

　　8. 選l

　　9. 選F

　　10.選I