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in the work terrorism be part scientist or pose rapidly it line change at can word to place are international fuel realization Global climate change is perhaps the costliest impact. The UK Prime Minister has called global warming 1) part of a cycle of degradation (退化，恶化), poverty and bitterness that makes 2) the _ world a less secure place. Worldwide, there is a growing 3) place that climate change, caused primarily by the burning of fossil 4) fuels, is a more serious threat to the 5)_international_ community than terrorism.Global economic losses due to natural disasters, which are in 6)_line_ with events anticipated to result from global warming, appear to 7)_be_ doubling with each decade, and annual losses from such events 8)_are_ expected to approach $150 billion over the next 10 years. 9)_ scientist _ have concluded that global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions must be reduced 10)_at_ least 70 percent over the next century to avoid catastrophic (灾难性的) 11)_change_ . Such reductions are not possible without significant and rapid improvements 12)_in_ energy efficiency and a shift to renewable (可再生的) energy.
Renewable energy 13)_can_ generate electricity, can heat and cool space, can do mechanical 14)_work_ such as water pumping, and can produce fuels — in other 15)_words_ , everything that conventional energy does. Renewable resources are generally domestic, 16)_pose_ no fuel or transport hazards, and are far less vulnerable 17)_to_ terrorist attack than conventional energy sources.
They can be installed 18)_rapidly_ and in dispersed applications — getting power quickly to areas where 19)_it_ is urgently needed, delaying investment in expensive new electric plants 20)_or_ power lines, and reducing investment risk. All renewables except biomass ([尤指用作燃料或提供能量的] 生物质) energy avoid fuel costs and the risks associated with future fuel price fluctuations (波动).
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raise do than significant in with proportion compare born resulting average live rationale present way while divorce even teen discouragingly Encouraging and supporting healthy marriages is a cornerstone of the US government?s proposed policies for addressing the poverty-related woes of single-parent households and, importantly, for improving the well-being of low-income children. The 1) rationale is reasonably straightforward: About a third of all children 2) born in the United States each year are born out of wedlock (婚姻).
Similarly, about half of all first marriages end in 3) divorce, and when children are involved, many of the 4)resulting single-parent households are poor. For example, less 5) than 10 percent of married couples with children are poor as 6) compared with about 35 to 40 percent of single-mother families.
The combination of an alarmingly high 7)proportion of all new births occurring out of wedlock and 8)discouragingly high divorce rate among families 9)with children ensures that the majority of America?s
children will spend a 10) significant amount of their childhood in single-parent households. Moreover, research shows that 11)even after one controls family background differences, children who grow up 12)living in an intact household with both biological parents 13)present seem to do better, on 14)average, on a wide range of social indicators than 15)do children who grow up in a single-parent household.
For example, they are less likely to drop out of school, become a 16)teen parent, be arrested, and be unemployed. 17)While single parenthood is not the main nor the sole cause of children?s increased likelihood of engaging 18) in_ one of these detrimental (adj. 有害的) behaviors, it is one contributing factor. Put another 19)way, equalizing income and opportunity do improve the life outcomes of children growing up in single-parent households, but children 20)raised in two-parent families still have an advantage.
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Some of the modern, liberal thinkers of our day have said that marriage will one day become extinct. 1) They?ve predicted marriage will slowly but surely be thought of as oldfashioned and unnecessary despite its current popularity and existence throughout human history.他们已经预言，婚姻尽管眼下十分流行而且一直存在于人类社会中，但肯定它将会慢慢地被人们看作是过时的和不必要的。
Perhaps their predictions are based on the changes in the way society views love and marriage. 2) During the 1960?s, society showed us a picture of love somewhat unfamiliar to American culture at that time.在20世纪60年代，社会向我们展示了一幅令当时的美国文化感到有点陌生的爱情画面。
Novels, newspapers and other forms of media touted this as the ideal kind of love. 3) A direct correlation can?t be proven, but during that time the divorce rate skyrocketed and has remained high until today.两者之间的直接相关性不能证实，但在那个时代离婚率似火箭般迅速上升，而且至今居高不下。
That warped concept of love taught us that if we can?t have all the passion and pleasure we want from one person, we can always find someone else who will give it to us. 4) Perhaps that is why some marriage researchers tell us that today 6 in 10 marriages at some time in the course of the marriage are affected by extramarital affairs.也许那就是为什么一些婚姻研究者告诉我们说，今天10桩婚姻中有6桩在婚姻过程中的某个时候，会受到婚外恋的影响。
Before this infatuation-based love concept, the majority of American society saw marriage as a commitment that was kept often in the face of obstacles and tough times. 5) Unselfishness was the key to marriage then and the focus was on the big picture of “till death do us part” and raising children in a home with a mom and a dad.无私是那时婚姻的关键所在，人们关注的重点是这样一幅大画面：“永不分离”的婚姻誓约和在父母双全的家庭中抚养孩子。