eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage
for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height __1__
after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “baby boom.” __2__
These young adults established a trend of early marriage and relatively large
families that went for more than two decades and caused a major but temporary __3__
reversal of long-term demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early
1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their __4__
Europe counterparts. __5__
Less noted but equally more significant, the men and women who formed __6__
families between 1940 and 1960 nevertheless reduced the divorce rate after a __7__
postwar peak; their marriages remained intact to a greater extent than did that of __8__
couples who married in earlier as well as later decades. Since the United States __9__
maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world,
the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. __10__
Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not
abandoned.
参考答案及解析:
1. 将height改为high/peak。
整句话的大意为他们把男女的婚龄降了下来，使出生率达到了20世纪的高峰。
high可以用作名词，意为“高峰”，“高水准”，“最高纪录”。
height可以作“极点，顶点”解释。例如：The height of cleverness is to conceal one’s cleverness。
2. 将第二个不定冠词a 去掉。
steady decline 意为持续的下降，前面不用加冠词。又如：years of hard work。根据语感可以判断出来。
3. 在went后加on，或将went改为lasted。
此处是“持续”的意思，所以可以用went on 或者last来表达。
4. 将high改为higher。
此处意为美国人结婚率比以前提高了，有与战前相比的意思，因此应用比较级。
5. 将Europe改为European。
6. 删掉more。此处的大意为战后离婚率也下降了，这个现象不大有人注意，但同样也很重要。另外，more与equally相矛盾。
7. 将nevertheless改为also或者删掉nevertheless。
此处上下文之间不是转折关系，而是递进关系。
8. 将that 改为those。
此处的代词应指marriages这个复数名词，因此应用those。此处考察代词与先行词一致的问题。
9. 将Since改为Although/Though/While。此处是转折关系，不是因果关系。
10. 将in改为to。短语to the extent是固定搭配。
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