四、阅读理解 1.选择题 (1) (书本 unit 3, 听力第二篇) There have been changes in all sorts of different areas of British society
In recent years in the UK we have had a very large increase in the number of couples who get divorced
After 1969 and the Divorce Law Reform Act we had a very rapid increase in the number of divorces
The rate increased steadily and in recent years has increased much more rapidly
But there are also quite a lot of people who do actually get married
At present the marriage rate in the UK is about 70 per cent, which has gone down since the number of people who marry has gone down quite a lot in the last 20 years, but more significantly in the last 10 years
Quite high proportions of people now live together without marrying, and, for example, 40 per cent of children born in the UK