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【正文】 en households is declining for several reasons. More than ever before, men and women are delaying both marriage and having children. Also the number of singleparent families is growing much faster than the number of married couples. The 2000 census shows that single fatherhood is a growing trend. First the aging of the American population and the growing number of both young and old people living alone are the main reasons the average American household hit a record low in 2000, just over two and a half people per household. Some sociologists fear that the growing number of oneperson households means increasing social isolation. Others see it as a sign of prosperity and an expression of American individualism.Part IV Listen and relaxTapescript: I am an identical twin and as children we looked exactly identical. So identical that we had to wear initials on our shirts so that teachers could tell us apart in school. And I think that39。s quite often the case with identical twins that when they are young children they tend to be more identical physically than when they grow up and I think that twins tend to diverge more as they get into adolescence and then into adulthood. And I think it reaches its climax when you39。re an adolescent because as an adolescent you are striving to be an individual but of course everybody looks upon you as one of a pair, so you have this real problem of identity. My theory is that twins actually look alike physically but often they plement each other when it es to their personalities and natures, if you like. And I think in our experience we plemented each other, we were the mirror image of each other. So my brother was more introvert.., was more academic, schoolish. I was, perhaps, or still am, you know, extrovert, more extrovert than him. And I think that39。s what we carried through our childhood really. As children going through primary school we got on very well. We were.., we always played together, we had mon interests. Our parents actually encouraged that, so that when we were, you know, young children we had piano lessons and we did this and we did that together, and we were just like very, very close friends. And it was natural for us to play together rather than to play with other children. When we got to adolescence, then that39。s where the truly petitive element came in and we found ourselves more likely to want not to be together. Not that we argued tremendously but that we just were searching for our own identities and therefore we would clash more. Up until the age of eighteen we were always together, but when we left school I went to teach in France for a year, my brother went straight to university to read sciences I was doing languages. So that when I came to go to university, he was a year ahead of me and by sheer chance we ended up in the same college in the same university, so the interesting factor was that we had deliberately aimed not to go to the same university ... to be separate.., but because I had this year off and he went straight in and through a quirk of the selection process, we ended up in the same college. And this college, one of the Cambridge University colleges, seemed to specialize in twins because there were about half a dozen sets of twins in the college in that year and ... but what we discovered was that we were very unlike them because in virtually all cases those sets of twins in our college were reading the same subjects, lived in the same rooms, wore the same clothes, went to the same lectures and we actually felt quite different, because my brother was doing sciences, I was doing languages, we had different rooms, we had different friends in different years. So we realized that we were actually not anything like as close as other twins that we came into contact with.
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