The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other【C1】 1as well—grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Such "extended" families were【C2】 2for survival in slow paced agricultural societies. But such families are hard to transplant. They are【C3】 3. Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in【C4】 4of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family【C5】 5shed its excess weight and the so-called " nuclear" family emerged—a stripped-down, portable family unit consisting only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more【C6】 6than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial countries. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development,【C7】 7even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlining process, a step further by remaining children,【C8】 8the family down to its more elemental components, a man and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at【C9】 9through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than the ordinarily child-cluttered family. A compromise may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in【C10】 10between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many couples will sidestep this problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.
A)need I)suited
B)dependents J)requests
C)gradually K)navigating
D)consisting L)immobile
E)harmony M)requires
F)conflict N)pursuit
G)continually O)cutting
H)mobile 【C1】