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.