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泰祺MBA HYPERLINK 021津桥MBA/MPA/GCT培训中心 广州020 深圳0755.启用前·绝密 2012年全国攻读工商管理硕士学位 研究生入学考试 [英语模拟]A1试卷 考生注意事项 选择题的答案须用2B铅笔填涂在答题卡上，其它笔填涂的或做在试卷上的答案无效。 其他题一律用蓝色钢笔或黑色钢笔或圆珠笔在答题纸上按规定要求作答，凡做在试卷上或未做在指定位置的答案无效。 交卷时，请配合监考人员验收，并请监考人员在准考证相应位置签字（作为考生交卷的凭据）。否则，所产生的一切后果由考生自负。 Section I Use of English Directions: Read the following text. Choose the best word(s) for each numbered blank and mark A, B, C or D an ANSWER SHEET 1. (10 points) The United States has historically had higher rates of marriage than those of other industrialized countries. The current annual marriage 1 in the United States——about 9 new marriages for every 1，000 people——is 2 higher than it is in other industrialized countries. However, marriage is 3 as widespread as it was several decades ago. 4 of American adults who are married 5 from 72 percent in 1970 to 60 percent in 2002. This does not mean that large numbers of people will remain unmarried 6 their lives. Throughout the 20th century, about 90 percent of Americans married at some 7 in their lives. Experts 8 that about the same proportion of today The timing of marriage has varied 9 over the past century. In 1995 the average age of women in the United States at the 10 of their first marriage was 25. The average age of men was about 27. Men and women in the United States marry 11 the first time at an average of five years later than people. 12 in the 1950s. 13 , young adults of the 1950s married younger than did any previous 14 in U.S. history. Today’s later age of marriage is _ 15_ the age of marriage between 1890 and 1940. 16 , a greater proportion of the population was married (95 percent) during the 1950s than at any time before _17 . Experts do not agree on 18 the “marriage rush” of the late 1940s and 1950s occurred, but most social scientists believe it represented a