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Unite Five PartⅠ Reading for information BDCAAC 2.Translation ⑴当然，他们最热衷于谈论的话题是人际关系：男人不愿意承诺、女人的独立、啥时候生孩子，或是越来越多地讨论究竟要不要孩子。 ⑵希腊曾经被认为是欧洲最为传统的社会之一，正教会要求人们结婚生子的严格戒律在过去占主导地位。 ⑶在英国，像《无子无女享受人生》这样的书的市场越来越大。身为记者的尼克德华格说，她写这本书的目的就是让“决定不生小孩的女人知道他们的情感生活绝对正常”。 ⑷事实上，人口学家说，是家庭生活幸福的20世纪五六十年代才不把历史规范放在眼里。 ⑸在美国和西欧的大城市，成家不要孩子长期以来都很常见，这种家庭模式在更为传统的农村地区也正快速地得到人们的认可。 3.Summary ⑴childless; odd; held sway; barren; cast suspicion on; ⑵timing; given; swath of the population; ⑶shift; disparate; extending; postponing; ⑷spawned; capitalize on; cater to; ⑸product; infertility; a complex combination of factors; ⑹households; gaining acceptability; Part Ⅱ Exercises ⑴Because support for working mothers is almost non-existent(though recently that’s begun to change).Child care is expensive, men don’t help out, and some companies strongly discourage mothers from returning to work. ⑵From the sentence“At the same time, around the world it’s mostly men who are at the head of a growing backlash against the childless”,we can say that men are more against childlessness. ⑶In Germany, economists and politicians have demanded that public pensions for the childless be slashed by up to 50 per cent. ⑷French recently raised child subsides to increase sharply with children numbers three and four. ⑸Because polls among young adults today show a continue decline in their ideal family size. Unite Six PartⅠ Reading for information BDAACD 2.Translation ⑴我们的血液藏有我们是谁的秘密。人类基因组99.0%是一样的；我们的相似之处远远多于相异之处。 ⑵离我们最近的共同祖先—基因上的“亚当”和“夏娃”—已经被追溯到非洲，在世界各地也发现了其他让人感兴趣的祖先。 ⑶我们每个细胞中的DNA不仅决定了我们眼睛的颜色，而且含有我们先辈的足迹。一个小孩的基因几乎完全是父母结合所产生的基因混合体。 ⑷科学的确有其局限之处。既然科研人员并没有真正采到成吉思汗之类人物的DNA，要想证明是否为某些历史人物的嫡系后代几乎是不可能的。 ⑸土著民众已经遭受殖民掠夺，许多人依然对主流文化不信任，惟恐交出自己的血液样本及其里面含有的信息。 Summary ⑴Identical; reveals clues to; ⑵larger story; collecting; DNA samples; indigenous populations; ⑶dictates; footprint; ⑷uncover links to; have its limit; the likes; direct descent from; ⑸debated; originated in; ⑹wary of; have had their share of; distrustful;