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Conventional wisdom says that if you want to be richer, a useful thing to do is to get married. Life is cheaper when there’s only one 1 to pay and someone else can do certain tasks--cooking or car repair--more 2 than you. Research by Ohio State University’s Jay Zagorsky shows that married baby boomers increase their 3 an average 16% a year, 4 those who are single increase their net 5 at half that rate. Yet the economic 6 of marriage isn’t what it used to be. In a chapter of a book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. They 7 to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. 8 how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has 9 , the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that 10 . Why In a 11 , because single women, even those with kids, have an easier time supporting themselves outside marriage than they used to. More women are working, increasingly for wages that are 12 with those of men. Women are having children later in life, and 13 of them. On top of that, a growing percentage of women who have children but aren’t married don’t live on their own. In 1970, 62% of single mothers were the only adult in their 14 , but by 2006, just 55% were living without another means of support— 15 more women cohabitating with a male partner or grandparent. Now, that’s not to say marriage doesn’t 16 with significant economic benefits. As research by Zagorsky and others illustrates, it does. A child in a single-parent family, for instance, is five times as 17 to live below the poverty line. What the two social scientists try to illustrate, though, is that marriage wouldn’t necessarily 18 more per-person wealth. Marrying someone who is chronically 19 might 20 not be an economic step up.

A. probable
B. likely
C. possible
D. feasible

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[材料一]科学发展观,是对党的三代中央领导集体关于发展的重要思想的继承和发展,是马克思主义关于发展的世界观和方法论的集中体现,是同马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想既一脉相承又与时俱进的科学理论,是我国经济社会发展的重要指导方针,是发展中国特色社会主义必须坚持和贯彻的重大战略思想。 [材料二]坚持中国特色社会主义文化发展道路,深化文化体制改革,推动社会主义文化大发展大繁荣,必须全面贯彻党的十七大精神,高举中国特色社会主义伟大旗帜,以马克思列宁主义、毛泽东思想、邓小平理论和“三个代表”重要思想为指导,深入贯彻落实科学发展观,坚持社会主义先进文化前进方向。 下列做法不符合科学发展观的是______。

A. 实施西部大开发战略
B. 积极推进中部崛起
C. 大力发展循环经济
D. 围湖造田,增加粮食产量

Conventional wisdom says that if you want to be richer, a useful thing to do is to get married. Life is cheaper when there’s only one 1 to pay and someone else can do certain tasks--cooking or car repair--more 2 than you. Research by Ohio State University’s Jay Zagorsky shows that married baby boomers increase their 3 an average 16% a year, 4 those who are single increase their net 5 at half that rate. Yet the economic 6 of marriage isn’t what it used to be. In a chapter of a book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. They 7 to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. 8 how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has 9 , the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that 10 . Why In a 11 , because single women, even those with kids, have an easier time supporting themselves outside marriage than they used to. More women are working, increasingly for wages that are 12 with those of men. Women are having children later in life, and 13 of them. On top of that, a growing percentage of women who have children but aren’t married don’t live on their own. In 1970, 62% of single mothers were the only adult in their 14 , but by 2006, just 55% were living without another means of support— 15 more women cohabitating with a male partner or grandparent. Now, that’s not to say marriage doesn’t 16 with significant economic benefits. As research by Zagorsky and others illustrates, it does. A child in a single-parent family, for instance, is five times as 17 to live below the poverty line. What the two social scientists try to illustrate, though, is that marriage wouldn’t necessarily 18 more per-person wealth. Marrying someone who is chronically 19 might 20 not be an economic step up.

A. account for
B. resulting in
C. thanks to
D. leading to

Conventional wisdom says that if you want to be richer, a useful thing to do is to get married. Life is cheaper when there’s only one 1 to pay and someone else can do certain tasks--cooking or car repair--more 2 than you. Research by Ohio State University’s Jay Zagorsky shows that married baby boomers increase their 3 an average 16% a year, 4 those who are single increase their net 5 at half that rate. Yet the economic 6 of marriage isn’t what it used to be. In a chapter of a book newly out from the Russell Sage Foundation, Changing Poverty, Changing Policies, two social scientists show that the marriage premium has subsided since 1969. They 7 to study how the changing makeup of American families has affected the number of people below the poverty line. 8 how the rate of marriage has fallen and the rate of divorce has 9 , the researchers expected the number of people living below the poverty line to grow 2.6%. But when they looked at the data, poverty had increased by less than half that 10 . Why In a 11 , because single women, even those with kids, have an easier time supporting themselves outside marriage than they used to. More women are working, increasingly for wages that are 12 with those of men. Women are having children later in life, and 13 of them. On top of that, a growing percentage of women who have children but aren’t married don’t live on their own. In 1970, 62% of single mothers were the only adult in their 14 , but by 2006, just 55% were living without another means of support— 15 more women cohabitating with a male partner or grandparent. Now, that’s not to say marriage doesn’t 16 with significant economic benefits. As research by Zagorsky and others illustrates, it does. A child in a single-parent family, for instance, is five times as 17 to live below the poverty line. What the two social scientists try to illustrate, though, is that marriage wouldn’t necessarily 18 more per-person wealth. Marrying someone who is chronically 19 might 20 not be an economic step up.

A. motivate
B. recommend
C. manufacture
D. generate

Any secondary school pupils not planning to go to university would be given a clearer "route into work" under Labour party plans for a new education contract between the individual and the state. Andy Burnham, the shadow education secretary, will this week reveal plans which would aim to give every secondary school pupil a path to employment if they met a set of required standards under a revised curriculum more geared to the world of work. The idea, one of the first to emerge from Labour’s policy commissions, reflects its view that current thinking is geared too much to those heading to university and leaves the "forgotten half" depressed, having studied subjects that are too often unsuited to modern working life. Burnham’s idea would involve a radical reshaping of the curriculum so that it offered a much wider choice of subjects than those included in education secretary-Michael Gove’s English baccalaureate (中学毕业考试). More vocational subjects would be included, such as engineering, business studies and information and communications technology. While stressing the ideas were still in the planning stage, he made clear that a further expansion of apprenticeships in the public and private sectors would be needed if the government was to meet its obligations under the contract. Burnham admitted that Labour lost sight of the needs of the millions of young people who would not go to university: "The whole political class has failed the young people not planning to go to university by failing to come up with clear, structured routes to succeed in life. I want to put that right. " A contract would engage young people and drive them to higher levels of achievement. It is also linked to how you raise standards, because, if young people see there is something there at the end for them, that will engage them and make school relevant to them. That is part of what is missing at the moment. With rising costs in higher education, the education maintenance allowance scrapped and youth unemployment at record levels, he will argue that education must be "inspiring, relevant and help those who work hard to get on in life". In Burnham’s eyes, to the people who work hard to succeed, education must be______.

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