Lesson 7

Answers to the Questions

V. 1. D 2. A 3. B 4. C 5. A

VI.

1．Young singles, elderly widows and other such “non-family households”now outnumber married-with-children homes in America's suburbs.

2．It has caused the rise of demand for housing, entertainment, care for the elderly and other social services.

3．He meant that all the problems associated with America and even urban America are becoming suburban problems.

4．There are now 12.8 million non-family households in the suburbs of the nation's 102 largest metropolitan are as and 11.7 million households in the married-with-children catego-ry. In 1990, the situation was reversed.

5．It would increase the power of single suburbanites, who may be able to outvote the households with children who need school and playground.

6．The main reason for the growth of cities like Denver is that they are drawing new families from other parts of the United States.

7．The growth of families in cities is “creating vitality”in the form of revived commercial districts, neighbourhood stability and a larger proportion of workers and consumers. But it will test the adquency of city school systems and could put new stresses on social services, such as infant day care.

Outline

I. Changed demographic composition in cities and suburbs (Paragraphs 1-3)

(1) Increase of non-family households in the suburbs

(2) Increase of married-with-children families in many cities

II. Impacts of the non-family increase on suburbs (Paragraphs 4-8)

(1) Rising demand for social services

(2) More diversity in population and changes in the lives of people already living there

(3) Increase of social problems

(4) Increase of political power

III. Fast increase of non-family households (Paragraphs 9-12)

(1) In the 102 largest metropolitan areas

(2) In the 32 older northern metropolitan areas

(3) In Anne Arundel County

IV. Reasons for the broadened suburban diversity (Paragraphs 13-14)

(1) A growing job market in the suburbs

(2) Desire to live near workplaces

V. Increase of married-with-children families in some cities (Paragraphs 15-19)

(1) Fast-growing cities' attraction for married couples with children

(2) Reasons for the attraction

(3) Prospects of the growth

(4) Impacts of the growth:

Reviving commercial districts;

Putting new stresses on social services