"You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage," declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller "Sex and the Single

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问题     "You need an apartment alone even if it’s over a garage," declared Helen Gurley Brown in her 1962 bestseller "Sex and the Single Girl". To Brown, solo living afforded the【C1】______to cultivate the self, furnish the mind and work late, and so on. Young women【C2】______enjoy their best years without a(n) 【C3】______, she advised, as this not only【C4】______the foundation for stronger marriages【C5】______gave them a lifestyle to fall back on【C6】______they found themselves alone again.
    【C7】______at the time, Brown’s counsel seems sensible now. Certainly both【C8】______have taken it to heart, marrying later, divorcing【C9】______and living alone in larger numbers than ever before. 【C10】______little is known about the wider social【C11】______of this unprecedented boom, writes Eric Kli-nenberg, a sociologist at New York University. His new book "Going Solo" offers a【C12】______look at the lures and perils of living alone.
    Mr Klinenberg【C13】______those who see the rise of solo living as yet another【C14】______of the decline of civic society. 【C15】______marriage is no longer the ticket to adulthood, a desire to live alone is perfectly【C16】______ , he writes. Young adults view it as a rite of passage, a period of personal growth before possibly【C17】______. Its cultural acceptance has helped to【C18】______women from bad marriages and oppressive families, 【C19】______them a space to return to civic life. And as elderly adults live longer than ever before, often without a partner, many hope to stay【C20】______for as long as possible.
【C9】

选项 A、unfairly
B、readily
C、suddenly
D、cautiously

答案B

解析 divorcing______与marrying later(更晚结婚)并列,由下文的living alone in larger numbers(更多人独居)可知人们更愿意独居,B项readily“乐意地,更容易”代入能表明这种意思,故选B项。
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