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在线学英语 体验请申请： HYPERLINK /ielts/xd.html /ielts/xd.html 洛基英语，中国在线英语教育领导品牌 Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D on ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) In the United States, older people rarely live with their adult children. But in many other cultures children are expected to care (21) their aged parents. In some parts of Italy, the percentage of adult children who (22) with their parents (23) 65 to 70 percent. In Thailand, too, children are expected to care for their elderly parents; few Thai elderly live (24). What explains these differences in living arrangements (25) cultures? Modernization theory (26) the extended family household to low levels of economic development. In traditional societies, the elderly live with their children in large extended family units for economic reasons. But with modernization, children move to urban areas, leaving old people (27) in (28) rural areas. Yet modernization theory cannot explain why extended family households were never common in the United States or England, or why families in Italy, which is fully modernized, (29) a strong tradition of intergenerational living. Clearly, economic development alone cannot explain (30) living arrangements. Another theory associated intergenerational living arrangements with inheritance patterns. In some cultures, the stem family pattern of inheritance (31). (32) this system, parents live with a married child, usually the oldest son, who then (33) their property when they die. The stem family system was once common in Japan, but changes in inheritance laws, (34) broader social changes brought (35) by industrialization and urbanization, have (36) the (37). In 1960 about 80 percent of Japanese over 65 lived with their children; by 1990 only 60 percent did—a figure that is still high (38) U. S. standards, but which has been (39) steadily. In Korea, too, traditional living arrangements are (40): the percentage of aged Koreans who liv