CLOZE 1: Decide which of the words given in the box below would best complete the passage if inserted in the corresponding blank. The words can be used ONCE ONLY. Mark the letter for each word on ANSWER SHEET TWO. A)transplant B)solution C)gradually D)transport E)elemental F)conflict G)continually H)mobile I)couples J)agricultural K)including L)compromise M)requires N)primary O)consisting The typical pre-industrial family not only had a good many children, but numerous other dependents as well---grandparents, uncles, aunts and cousins. Such "extended" families were suited for survival in slow paced 1 ________ societies. But such families are hard to 2 ________ They are immobile. Industrialism demanded masses of workers ready and able to move off the land in pursuit of jobs, and to move again whenever necessary. Thus the extended family 3________ shed its excess weight and the so-called "nuclear" family emerged---a stripped-down, portable family unit 4________ only of parents and a small set of children. This new style family, far more 5________ than the traditional extended family, became the standard model in all the industrial counties. Super-industrialism, however, the next stage of eco-technological development, 6________ even higher mobility. Thus we may expect many among the people of the future to carry the streamlining process, a stepfather by remaining children, cutting the family down to its more 7 ________components, a man and a woman. Two people, perhaps with matched careers, will prove more efficient at navigating through education and social status, through job changes and geographic relocations, than the ordinarily child-cluttered family. A 8________ may be the postponement of children, rather than childlessness. Men and women today are often torn in 9________ between a commitment to career and a commitment to children. In the future, many 10 ________will sidestep this problem by deferring the entire task of raising children until after retirement.