单选题 Mobility of individual members and family groups tends to split up family relationships. Occasionally the movement of a family away from a situation which has been the source of friction results in greater family organization, but on the whole mobility is disorganizing. Individuals and families are involved in three types of mobility: movement in space, movement up or down in social status, and the movement of ideas. These are termed respectively spatial, vertical and ideational mobility.
A great increase in spatial mobility bas gone along with improvements in rail and water transportation, the invention and use of the automobile, and the availability of airplane passenger service. Spatial mobility results in a decline in the importance of the traditional home with its emphasis on fatally continuity and stability. It also means that when individual family members or the family as a whole move away from a community, the person or the family is removed from the pressures of relatives, friends, and community institutions for conventionality and stability. Even more important is the fact that spatial mobility permits some members of a family to come in contact with and possibly adopt attitudes, values, and ways of thinking different from those held by other family members. The presence of different attitudes values, and ways of thinking within a family may, and often does, result in conflict and family disorganization. Potential disorganization is present in those families in which the husband, wife and children are spatially separated over a long period, or are living together but see each other only briefly because of different work schedules,
One index of the increase in vertical mobility is the great increase in the proportion of sons, and to some extent daughters who engage in occupations other than those of the parents. Another index of vertical mobility is the degree of intermarriage between social classes. This occurs almost exclusively between classes which are adjacent to each other. Engaging in a different occupation, or intermarriage like spatial mobility, allows one to come in contact with ways of behavior different from those of the parental home, and tends to separate parents and their children.
The increase in ideational mobility is measured by the increase in publications, such as news papers, periodicals and beaks, the increase in the percentage of the population owning radios, and the increase in television sets. All these tend to introduce new ideas into the home. When individual family members are exposed to and adopt the new ideas, the tendency is for conflict to arise and for those in conflict to become psychologically separated from each other.

单选题 What the passage tells us can be summarized by the statement ______.
A. potential disorganization is present in the American family
B. social development results iii a decline in the importance of traditional families
C. the movement of a family is one of the factors in raising its social status
D. family disorganization is more or less the result of mobility

单选题 According to the passage, those who live in a traditional fanfily ______.
A. can get more help from their family members if they are in trouble
B. will have more freedom of action and thought if they move away from it
C. are less likely to quarrel with others because of conventionality and stability
D. have to depend on their relatives and friends if they do not move away from it

单选题 Potential disorganization exists in those families in which ______.
A. the family members are subject to social pressures
B. both parents have to work full time
C. the husband, wife and children seldom get together
D. the husband, wife and children work too hard

单选题 Intermarriage and different occupations play an important role in family disorganization be- cause ______.
A. they enable the children to travel around without their parents
B. they enable the children to better understand the ways of behavior of their parents
C. they allow one to find a good job and improve one' s social status
D. they permit one to come into contact with different ways of behavior and thinking

单选题 This passage suggests that a well-organized family is a family whose members ______.
A. are not psychologically withdrawn from one another
B. seldom quarrel with each other even when they disagree
C. often help each other with true love and affection
D. are exposed to the same new ideas introduced by books, radios and TV sets