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Statesmen define a family as “a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood, adoption or marriage, (1) ______ includes common-law relationships.” Most people are born into one of these groups and (2) ______ live their lives as a family in such a group. Although the definition of a family may not change, (3) ______ relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes. More and more wives are (4) ______ paying jobs, and, as a result, the roles of husband, wife and children are changing. Today, men expect to (5) ______ for pay for about 40 years of their lives, and, in today’s marriages in which both spouses have paying jobs, women can expect to work for about 30 to 35 years of their lives.

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Statesmen define a family as “a group of individuals having a common dwelling and related by blood, adoption or marriage, (1) ______ includes common-law relationships.” Most people are born into one of these groups and (2) ______ live their lives as a family in such a group. Although the definition of a family may not change, (3) ______ relationship of people to each other within the family group changes as society changes. More and more wives are (4) ______ paying jobs, and, as a result, the roles of husband, wife and children are changing. Today, men expect to (5) ______ for pay for about 40 years of their lives, and, in today’s marriages in which both spouses have paying jobs, women can expect to work for about 30 to 35 years of their lives.

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In the country of the population (1) ______, many people like big families. The parents think that brings a bigger income for the family and ensures there will be someone in the family who will look after them in old age. Several governments have (2) ______ birth control policies in recent years. (3) ______ them are Japan, China, India and Egypt. In some (4) ______ the results have not been succeeded. Japan has been an exception. The Japanese adopted a birth control policy in 1948. People (5) ______ to limit their families. The birth rate fell from 34.3 per thousand per year to about 17.0 per thousand per year at present.

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Man cannot go on increasing numbers at the present rate. In the next 30 years, man will face a period of crisis. (1) ______ experts believe that there will be a widespread food (2) ______ .Other experts think this is too pessimistic, and that man can prevent things from getting worse than they are now. But (3) _______ that two-thirds of the people in the world are undernourished or starving now. One thing that man can do is to limit (4) ______of babies born. The need (5) _______ this is obvious, but it is not easy to achieve. People have to be persuaded to limit their families.

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Also, unmarried couples may decide to have more children - or they might take in foster children or (1) _____. And because people are staying single and living longer (often as widows), there may be more one-person households. (2) _____ the other hand, some people believe similar events happen again and again in history: if this is true, people may go back to the traditional (3) _____ or nuclear family of the past. Others think the only (4) ______ in history is change: in other words, the structure of the (5) _____ family could begin to change faster and faster - and in more and more ways.

Many people today would like the traditional two-parent family back - that is to say, they want a man and a woman to (1) ______ for life; they also think the man should (2) ______ the family and the woman should stay home with the children. However, few families now (3) ______ into this category. In fact, if more women decide to have children on their (4) ______, the single-parent household may become more (5) ______ than the traditional family in many countries.

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Halloween is celebrated on October the 31st (1) ______ year. It originated from a pagan holiday and the Christian holiday of All Saints’ Day. The name Halloween is a (2) ______ version of All Hallows’ Eve. Today, it is more of a fun day for children and has (3) ______ lost its religious roots. Halloween has many (4) ______ identifiable symbols. The colors orange and black are widely used. In particular, orange pumpkins and fires and black witches, cats and costumes are common (5) ______ of this day. One of the biggest Halloween activities is trick-or-treating. This is when children knock on doors and ask for a small gift. If they don’t get (6) ______, they’ll play a trick on the person who opens the door. Food also plays a big part of Halloween. Toffee apples are very popular and (7) ______ is anything made from pumpkin.

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Tattooing is an old art. In ancient Greece, people who had tattoos were (1) ______ as members of the upper classes. It was not (2) ______ the late 18th century, when Captain Cook saw South Sea Islanders decorating their bodies with tattoos, that attitude began to change. Sailors came back from these islands with pictures of Christ on the backs and from then on, tattooing (3) ______ in popularity. A survey by the French army in 1881 showed that (4) ______ the 378 men questioned there were 1333 designs. Nowadays, not everybody finds tattoos acceptable. Some people think that getting one is silly because tattoos are more or less permanent. There is also some (5) ______ about catching a blood disease from unsterilized needles.

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The gap in male-female earning has great significance because more than 16 percent of U.S. households are (1) ______ by women. Low-paying jobs keep many of these households in poverty. Women’s groups such as National Organization for Women have demanded that equal opportunities and equal pay (2) ______ to women. According to women’s (3) ______ Maggie McAnany, “It is imperative that the government help to change the situation (of employment for women). We cannot wait for the companies to (4) ______ themselves. Change must come (5) ______ the law.”

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Although women now (1) ______ almost half of all workers in the U.S., nearly 80 percent of them are employed in low-paying clerical, sales, service, or factory jobs. Approximately a third of all women workers have clerical jobs, which pay (2) ______ average $12,000 or less. Partly as a result, women make only seventy- five cents for every dollar (3) ______ by men. (4) ______, men routinely make more money even when education, experience, and responsibilities are (5) ______.