阅读教程 4 Unit 5 答案.docVIP

新世纪大学英语系列教材（第二版） Unit 5 Part I Exercises I. Reading for information 。 A. Reading to find main ideas 1.B 2. D B. Reading to find major details 3.C 4. A C. Reading to find relevant facts 5. A 6.C II. Translation Translate the following sentences into Chinese. 1 Their favorite topic of conversation is, of course, relationships: men’s reluctance to commit, women’s independence, and when to have children — or, increasingly, whether to have them at all. 当然，他们最热衷的谈资是人际关系：男人不愿意承诺、女人的独立、什么时候生孩子，或者是越来越多地讨论究竟要不要孩子。 2 Greece was known as one of Europe’s most traditional societies, where the Orthodox Church’s strict commandment to marry and multiply held sway. 希腊曾被认为是欧洲最为传统的国家之一，正教会要求人们结婚生子的严格戒律占主导地位。 3 In Britain, there’s a growing market for books such as Child-Free and Loving It, which journalist Nicki Defago says she wrote “to let women deciding against children know that their feelings are perfectly normal.” 在英国，像《无子无女享人生》这样的书市场越来越大。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她们的感情生活绝对正常”。 4 In fact, demographers say it was the family-happy 1950s and 1960s that defied the historical norm. 事实上，人口学家说，是家庭生活幸福的20世纪50年代和60年代改变了历史准则。 5 And while child-free households have long been common in the big cities ofAmerica and Western Europe, they’re fast gaining acceptability in more-traditional rural societies as well. 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。 III. Summary Complete the following statements with words and expressions from the box. Use their proper forms. 1 Just a few decades ago, childlessness might have been considered odd in Greece, where the Orthodox Church’s strict commandment to marry and multiply held sway . Powerful social and religious taboos labelled childless women as barren spinsters, and cast suspicion on the sexual preferences of single, middle-aged men. 2 Today, to young Greeks, babies are great — if the timing is right. But they’re certainly not essential. As a matter of fact, having kids is no longer a given among a gro