The United States has historically higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage【B1】in the United States—about 9 new marriages for every 1,000 people—is substantially higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is【B2】as widespread as it was several decades ago. The proportion of American adults who are married【B3】from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried【B4】their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some point in their lives. Experts【B5】that about the same proportion of today's young adults will eventually marry.
The timing of marriage has varied【B6】over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the time of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry for the first time at an average of five years later than people did in the 1950s.【B7】, young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous【B8】in U.S. history. Today's later age of marriage is in line with the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. Moreover, a greater proportion of the population was married （95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before【B9】. Experts do not agree on why the "marriage rush" of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a【B10】to the return of peaceful life and prosperity after 15 years of severe economic depression and war.
【B1】
A．rate
B．ratio
C．percentage
D．poll

在下列诗句的空格中，依次填入最恰当的词语。
①无边___萧萧下，不尽长江滚滚来。
②___不是无情物，化作春泥更护花。
③细数___因坐久，缓寻芳草得归迟。
④归云堕碧粘僧屐，____飘红上客衫。
A．落叶落木落红落花
B．落木落红落叶落花
C．落木落红落花落叶
D．落木落花落红落叶

【B9】
A．musicians
B．audience
C．judges
D．artists

It is a great pity for __ to be any quarrel in the school board meeting.
A．where
B．here
C．there
D．why

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IBM wants __ in the ad.
A．computer experts
B．consulting talents
C．managing talents
D．sale talents

To get the best view of Sydney Harbour, take a Sydney Seaplane flight __ the Harbour and Bondi Beach.
A．above
B．under
C．over
D．across