首页
外语
计算机
考研
公务员
职业资格
财经
工程
司法
医学
专升本
自考
实用职业技能
登录
考研
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing
admin
2017-08-11
30
问题
Last September, the U.S. government announced that its birthrate fell to "another record low". Morally speaking, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s【C1】______. in a way. All over the world, birthrates tend to fall a-long with economic development.
The thing about an increasingly childless economy is that it has major implications for【C2】______. It is confirmed by a new data from a Gallup survey【C3】______on the average daily spending of families. Even after you control for income, age, education, and【C4】______status, families with young kids spend more every day.
What are parents spending on? Not just books, toys, and games. The Department of Agriculture【C5】______surveys the many ways we spend on our kids, to the tune of about $14,000 a year. The【C6】______majority of money goes to the【C7】______: housing, food, transportation, and education. Housing is kind of funny, because young children tend not to have their housing units,【C8】______the parents are extremely well-off and the children are terribly misbehaved. The survey estimates the housing portion of spending by trying to【C9】______a few factors: the cost of an extra bedroom, the cost of moving into safer【C10】______with better schools, and the cost of buying homes with larger yards.
It is【C11】______that on economic growth, some of the most discussed variables on editorial pages and cable news are policy choices like tax rates or international events. But buried【C12】______these headlines is the glacier of demographics, the steady and unyielding force of human numbers to【C13】______the economy. The【C14】______in U.S. birthrates in recent years has almost certainly had a negative effect on consumer spending (and,【C15】______, lower birthrates are probably an outcome of the recession). In particular, childless couples don’t need space for more kids so they’re less【C16】______to buy homes in the suburbs,【C17】______demand for housing that badly needs to sell more homes. In other words,【C18】______families and less household formation【C19】______the U.S. economy of housing and transportation spending, which has historically accounted for half of family【C20】______.
【C13】
选项
A、conquer
B、handle
C、describe
D、shape
答案
D
解析
第二段提到出生率的下降会导致消费的下降,可见人类活动能决定经济的某些要素。D项shape意为“塑造,对(某人或某事物)有重大影响;决定(某事物)的性质”,可表明人口数量对经济有极大的影响作用,符合语义和逻辑要求。
转载请注明原文地址:https://jikaoti.com/ti/Tsr7FFFM
0
考研英语一
相关试题推荐
Microsoftemployeesdonotrecognizethemselvesinthegovernment’ssuitsintheMicrosoftcafeteriainRedmond,Washington.The
Microsoftemployeesdonotrecognizethemselvesinthegovernment’ssuitsintheMicrosoftcafeteriainRedmond,Washington.The
Industrialism,atleastwithinourexperienceofitformorethan200years,never【B1】______apointofequilibriumoralevelpl
"Isitavitalinterestofthestatetohavemoreanthropologists?"RickScott,theFloridagovernor,onceasked.Aleaderofa
Whataretheroadsnottakenbecausestudentsmusttakeoutloansforcollege?Foronething,itappearsthatpeoplewithstuden
Anyonewhohassearchedforajobfreshoutofcollegeknowshowdifficultitistogetthatfirstjob.Sendingouthundredsof
Thelast-minutevictoryoftheTexasLonghornsinthisyear’sRoseBowl—America’scollegefootballchampionship—wasthekindof
Nowcustomhasnotbeencommonlyregardedasasubjectofanygreatimportance.Theinnerworkingsofourownbrainswefeelto
Nowcustomhasnotbeencommonlyregardedasasubjectofanygreatimportance.Theinnerworkingsofourownbrainswefeelto
Womenhavelongbeenmoreinnumberthanmenoncollegecampuses.Theyalsoholdmoreadvanceddegreesthantheirmale【C1】______
随机试题
建筑安装工程费用中的安全文明施工费中不包括()。
承揽合同中,承揽人如将其主要义务交由其他人来完成,属于债务不履行,定作人有权________。
误食毒物后一般多长时间洗胃效果较好()
A.流感杆菌B.副流感病毒C.流感病毒D.溶血性链球菌E.柯萨奇病毒急性咽炎常见致病菌是
A.受检人群中每人口腔中平均龋、失、补牙数B.在调查期间某一人群中患龋病的频率,人口基数以百计算C.通常指至少在1年时间内,某人群新发生龋病的频率D.全口牙列均无龋的人数占全部受检查人数的百分率E.包括患根龋的数目和因根龋而充填的数目患龋率
与外部审计相比,内部审计更关注的领域是:
某公司甲、乙、丙、丁、戊5人爱好出国旅游。去年,在日本、韩国、英国和法国4国中,他们每人都去了其中的两个国家旅游,且每个国家总有他们中的2~3人去旅游。已知:(1)如果甲去韩国,则丁不去英国;(2)丙与戊去年总是结伴出国旅游;
下面关于PC机主板芯片组的叙述中,错误的是
要求为当前表建立一个唯一索引,索引表达式为姓名,索引名为xm。则下列各语句中正确的是______。
Disposing(处理)ofwastehasbeenaproblemsincehumansstartedproducingit.Asmoreandmorepeoplechoosetoliveclosetoget
最新回复
(
0
)