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A. likely   B. common   C. necessary   D. sense   E. usual F. remains     G. drive     H. close     I. occurs   J. mobile     K. contact

Family Patterns in Modern Britain

The family is a central institution of modern British society, at least in the     1    that almost everybody has had experience of living in a family at some time in their lives. There are many different family patterns in modern Britain.

One pattern that was    2    in the 1950s and covers about one in eight families today is where the parents and married children live    3    together but in separate houses. The family bond    4    strong and mothers and daughters are    5    to meet each other most days to talk or help each other. This pattern    6    more often in settled communities rather than in    7    ones, in the north of England rather than in the south, and in working class rather than middle-class families.

Another pattern is where parents and married children live further apart (usually about an hour’s car    8    from each other). Many of them meet only once or twice a month but keep in    9    by telephone and help each other when    10    . This pattern is growing and covers about half of the population. It is found especially in middle-class families in the south-east of England.

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Most people assume that life in the rat race is bad for your health.But reversing the traditional gender roles is a stressful     1    , according to the latest research by American scientists. By giving up their jobs in order to become house husbands, men     2    their risk of heart attacks by as much as 82%, according to research based on a 10-year study of 2,500 people in Boston, USA.

According to Dr Eaker, the key to the problem is that some man became     3     about performing a role not     4     assigned to them by society. Men who stay at home tend not to have the same levels of support from fiends and family as women who do the same. Jack O’Sullivan, of the Father’s Direct group, was quoted as saying: “Society expects the main carer to be a woman, and society is     5     around that. Daycare is called mother and toddle groups and some men feel     6     about belong to those groups.”

Professor Gary Cooper, a psychologist at the University of Manchester, said many men tend to     7     the task of caring for a family. He said:“Most men think being a house husband involves putting on a bit of washing , taking the kids to school and then putting their feet up with a cup of coffee. They are crazy. Most men are not used to performing a     8    of activities at the same time-the kind of multi-tasking which is second     9     to most of women.”

It is estimated that men have taken over the main homemaker’s role in one seven homes, as increasing numbers of women become the main breadwinner. The study also found that women in high-powered jobs were more likely to develop heart disease than those in more     10     positions.

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The Internet has been found a new usage.Increasingly, more and more Americans are having a(an)     1    to become their own doctors, by going online to order home health tests or medical devices, or even self-treat their illnesses with drugs from Internet pharmacies(药店). Some people    2     doctors because of the high cost medical care, especially if they    3     health insurance. Or they may    4     to see a doctor because they find it embarrassing to discuss their weight, alcohol consumption or couch potato habits. Patients may also fear what they might learn about their health, or they distrust physicians because of     5    in the past. But to become their own doctors can be    6    .

Every day, more than six million American search the Internet for medical answers.Most of them have no    7     about what they find. In 2002, a survey by the Pew Internet & American Life Project found that 72 percent of those surveyed believe all or most of what they read on health websites. Actually, most of such web sites are only interested in doing    8     business. Of the 169 websites the researchers rated, only 16 scored as "high quality".Recent studies found faulty facts about all sorts of other disorders, causing one research team to     9     that a large amount of incomplete, inaccurate and even dangerous information exists on the Internet.

The problem is that most people don't know the safe way to surf the web. "They use a search engine like Google, get 18 trillion choices and start clicking. But that's risky, because almost anybody can put up a site that looks     10     , so it's hard to know   National Cancer Institute.