2019英语专八模拟试卷及答案（六）

　　PART III LANGUAGE USAGE [15 MIN]

　　The passage contains TEN errors. Each indicated line contains a maximum of ONE error. In each case, only ONE word is involved. You should proof-read the passage and correct it in the following way:

　　For a wrong word, underline the wrong word and write the correct one in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　For a missing word, mark the position of the missing word with a “∧” sign and write the word you believe to be missing in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　For an unnecessary word, cross the unnecessary word with a slash “/” and put the word in the blank provided at the end of the line.

　　Proofread the given passage on ANSWER SHEET THREE as instructed.

　　Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more 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 ounger 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.

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