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When Pilar Jiménez got married in 1961, she knew her marriage would last. "Back then, no one separated," says the 71-year-old lady. "Marriage was for life." Indeed, her husband and she lived happily until he passed away two years ago. But if her marriage was typical of its time, so are those of her 10 children: five of them are now divorced.
The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized (合法化) divorce in 1981, and a 2005 reform has caused those numbers to skyrocket. The reform has allowed couples to separate for one year before divorce. As a result, Spain now has one divorce for every 2.3 marriages－an increase of 74% in the past two years alone.
For the Catholic Church, Spain's rising divorce rate shows the morality (道德) is being threatened, and this threat comes from the government, whose power has no longer remained in the Church. Cardinal (红衣主教) Augustín García-Gasco believes that radical s
eparation of politics and religion has led to nothing but despair along with abortion and fast divorce. Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees, "The reform has made the marriage contract useless." 中冶集团
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However, Spaniards (西班牙人) no longer feel shameful by the prospect of divorce. A website named "divorcioexpress" offers couples agreements on divorce through the Internet. "We facilitate about 100 divorces a month," Alberto Gillette, the founder of the website, says, "but we're not encouraging divorce, just making it easier to get." Like the companies, some sociologists also think it unreasonable to be worried about the divorce boom, because the number of separations is dropping down when that of divorces is increasing. "In the past, when it came to the issue on divorce, Spain seemed unique in Europe." Sociologist Inés Alberdi says, "Now we're more like other European countries."
1.The story of Pilar Jiménez and her children leads to ______.
A.the happiness of marriage and family
B.the situation of divorce rate in Spain
C.separation of politics and religion阿基米德螺线
D.suggestions to avoid family conflicts
答案：B
2.The word "skyrocket" (paragraph 2, line 2) means ______.
A.to decline sharply
B.to remain unchanged
C.to move up and down
D.to go up fast
答案：D
3.According to Augustín García-Gasco, the rising divorce rate is resulted from _______.
A.the 2005 reform on the one-year separation
B.the government separating from the religion
C.the despair in increasing number of abortion
D.the national concern over marriage problems
答案：B
4.The website is mentioned to show that ______.
A.the government is facing the moral threats
B.Spaniards think much of the divorce problem
C.divorce is likely to become ordinary in Spain
D.couples can divorce without any restrictions
答案：C
5.It can be inferred that many European countries have ______.
A.increasing divorce rates
B.decreasing divorce rates
C.increasing marriage rates
D.decreasing marriage rates
答案：A
Child labor, the employment of children in industry, often against their will, has been a problem for many years.
Over a hundred years ago, Charles Dickens shocked many of his readers when he described the conditions under which young children worked in British factories. The conditions Dickens described continue almost unchanged today in many parts of the world. The only difference is that today employment of children is confined to small industries and family businesses, such as hotels, restaurants and particularly farms, rather than to large factories.
Girls suffer more from child labor practices than boys. Many of them are forced to start work when they are only ten years old. Although the work they are given to do is often light, it is often harmful to their health. Recently, children as young as six years were found to be working in Asian factories, and the children were working from eight to fourteen hours a day in overcrowded and unhealthy working conditions. Sometimes a whole family group is employed, with the payment going to a parent or older relative. The children not only receive nothing or very little for their long hours of work, but also they are prevented from attending schools. Therefore, when they become older they are unable to do any other kind of work.
The solution to the problem of child labour is clearly better laws to protect young children, greater supervision of industry and heavier fines for those who break the laws. Only in this way can young boys and girls be allowed to enjoy the most valuable time of their lives-childhood.
6.The conditions under which young children work ______.
A.have improved since a hundred years ago
B.are even worse than those a hundred years ago
中小学电脑报C.are similar to those a hundred years ago
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D.杨成章are exactly the same as those a hundred years ago
答案：C
7.Girls' work is ______.
A.not harmful to the health though it is heavy
B.not harmful to the health because it is light
C.harmful to the health though it is light
D.harmful to the health because it is heavy
答案：C
8.同济图书馆Young children go to work ______.
A.because they are forced to
B.in order to be skilful in a certain kind of work
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