A. GOING DOWN B. GO DOWN C. DOING AWAY D. DO AWAY V. READ THE FOLL...

10.

A. going down

B. go down

C. doing away

D. do away

V. Read the following passage and choose the best answer for each blank.

A nuclear family or elementary family is a family group (1)______ a pair of adults and their

children. It is in contrast to a single-parent family, to the larger extended family, and to a family

with more than two parents. Nuclear families typically centre on a (an) (2)______ couple; the nuclear

family may have any number of children. There are differences in definition among observers; some

definitions allow only biological children that are full-blood siblings, but (3)______ allow for a

stepparent and any mix of dependent children including stepchildren and adopted children.

Family structures of one married couple and their children (4)______ in Western Europe and

New England in the 17th century, influenced (5)______ church and theocratic governments. With the

emergence of proto-industrialization and early capitalism, the nuclear family became a financially

viable social unit. The term nuclear family first (6)______ in the early twentieth century. Alternative

definitions have evolved to include family units headed by same-sex parents and perhaps

additional adult relatives who (7)______ a cohabiting parental role; in the latter case, it also receives

the name of conjugal family.

The concept that a narrowly defined nuclear family is central to (8)______ in modern society

has been promoted by familialists who are social conservatives in the United States, and has been

challenged as historically and sociologically inadequate (9)_____ the complexity of actual family

relations.

As a fertility factor, single nuclear family households generally have a higher number of

children than co-operative living arrangements according (10)_____ studies both from the Western

world and India.