Fathers in today families are spending more time with their children than at any point in the
past 100 years. (1) the number of hours the average woman spends at home with her children
has declined since the early 1900s, as more and more women enter the workforce, there has been a
decrease in the numnber of children per family and an increase in (2)
attention to each child. As a
result, mothers today in the United States, (3)
twice as much time with each child as mothers did in the 1920s. People (4)
1940s and 1950s typically report that their own adult children and grandchildren communicate far
those who work part- or full-time, spend almost
raised children in the
better with their kids and spend more time helping with homework than they did.
America's children are also safer today than they've (5)
been. An infant was four times
more likely to die in the 1950s than today. A parent then was 27 per cent more likely to lose an older
teen to death.
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B. However
C. Unless
D. Besides
B. individual
C. unique
D. single
Question 57: A. isolated
Question 58: A. adding
B. counting
C. taking
D. including b
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B. which
C. who V
D. when
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B. already
C. ever
D. just