专业英语八级改错练习题及答案解析(八).docx

专业英语八级改错练****题及答案解析 (8)
Demographic indicators show that Americans in the post war period were more eager than ever to establish families. They quickly brought down the age at marriage for both men and women and brought the birth rate to a twentieth century height after more than a hundred years of a steady decline, producing the “ babyboom.” These young adults established a trendof early marriage and relatively large families that went for more than two decades and caused a majobr ut temporary reversal of long-term
demographic patterns. From the 1940s through the early 1960s, Americans married at a high rate and at a younger age than their
Europe counterparts.
Less noted but equallymore significant, the men and women who formed families between
1940 and 1960neverthelessreduced the divorce rate after a postwar peak; their
marriages remained intact to a greater extent than ditdhat of
couples who married
in earlier as well as later decadesS. ince the United States maintained its dubious distinction of having the highest divorce rate in the world, the temporary decline in divorce did not occur in the same extent in Europe. Contrary to fears of the experts, the role of breadwinner and homemaker was not abandoned.
参考答案及解析：
.将height改为high/peak。整句话的大意为他们把男女的焙龄降了下来， 使出
生率达到了 20 世纪的高峰。 high 可以用作名词，意为“高峰”，“高水准”，
“ 最 高 纪 录 ” 。 height 可 以 作 “ 极 点