题目

 I don’t think you can work out the maths problem ____her help.   A. since   B. unless   C. with   D. without 答案：D。“在……帮助下”用with,“没有……帮助”用without。3．One in three American children now live with only one parent．（33）Even though/Even ifthe traditional family of Japan is strong，divorce still went up quickly between 1980 and 1995．（34）Whatis more important is that the nature of the family is changing．In Sweden and Denmark，around half of all babies are now born to unmarried parents，and in the United Kingdom and France more than a third．Families are getting smaller．The average Turkish family had seven members in 1970； today it has only five．And in Spain and Italy，（35）wherefamilies were always traditionally large，the birthrate was the lowest in the developed world in 1995．This fall in the birthrate is due to the fact that，as more women have careers，they are waiting longer and longer （36）to start（start） a family．The age （37）at whichthe average woman has her first baby is now 28 in Western Europe，and it is getting later．So the nuclear family is clearly changing，but is it in danger of （38）disappearing（disappear） completely？The truth is （39）thatit is still too early to tell．In some countries these patterns are actually reversing．In the United States，Scandinavia and the United Kingdom，the birthrate is rising once more； and in Denmark，for example，marriage is becoming more popular again．In the United States，the divorce rate in fact fell （40）by10 per cent between 1980 and 1990，and it is continuing to fall．