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Marriage is still a popular institution in the United States,but divorce is becoming almost as “popular”.Most American people get married,but at the present time,fifty percent of American marriages end up in divorce.However,four out of five divorced people do not stay single.They get married a second time to new partners.Sociologists tell us that in the next century,most American people will marry three or four times in one lifetime.
Alvin Toffler,an American sociologist,calls this new social form serial marriages.In his book Future Shock,Toffler gives many reasons for this change in American marriage.In modern society,people’s lives don’t stay the same for very long.Americans frequently change their jobs,their homes,and their circle of friends.So the person who was a good husband or wife ten years ago is sometimes not as good ten years later.After some years of marriage,a husband or wife can feel that their lives have become very different,and they don’t share the same interests any more.
For this reason Toffler says,people in the twenty-first century will not plan to marry only one person for an entire lifetime.They will plan to stay married to one person for perhaps five or ten years,and then marry another.Most Americans will expect to have a “marriage career” that includes three or four marriages.
Comprehension questions
1.The word “institution” (line1) most probably means __________.
A) a social practice B) a social organization
C) a state law D) an established habit
2.In the United States ___________.
A) marriage is less popular than divorce now
B) remaining single is becoming more and more popular now
C) divorce is as popular as it was
D) remarriage is getting more popular now
3.The percentage of remarriage among divorced Americans is ____________.
A) fifty percent B) eighty percent
C) forty percent D) ninety percent
4.One of the reasons for the change in American marriages is ____________.
A) difference in interests
B) difference in making friends
C) difference in choosing jobs
D) difference in family background
5.In the twenty-first century,American’s attitude towards remarried people will be __________.
A) suspicious B) critical C) fussy D) approving