课时分层作业42 选修7 Module 6 The World's Cultural Heritage(Word练习)-【名师导航】2024年高考英语一轮总复习(老高考)外研版

课时分层作业(四十二)　Module 6　The World's Cultural Heritage Ⅰ.阅读理解 (2022·昆明市“三诊一模”教学质量检测) There is a time when many Americans question whether a college degree is worth its cost.However，a recent study found Americans who completed college or university are more likely to have friends and are less lonely than those who only finished high school. Daniel Cox，director of the Survey Center on American Life，said that in general Americans are experiencing a “friend recession”，meaning a decline in their number of friends.Cox noted “Americans have fewer close friends today than we did in the early 1990s.But men and those without a college degree are particularly affected because they seem to have experienced a much more dramatic decline over that period”． The Center questioned 5，054 people this past summer.It found Americans with a college degree feel more socially connected and are more active in their communities than people who didn't go to college.As a result，those who completed college report feeling less lonely. Previous research showed that Americans who didn't go to college are less likely to marry.A 2012 study found that college­educated women are much more likely to get married than women who dropped out of high school.A 2013 study of people born between 1957 and 1964 found that both men and women who didn't finish high school are less likely to marry than those with more education. Today，65 percent of college­educated Americans over age 25 are married.About 50 percent of people with a high school diploma，or who dropped out of high school，are married.Those numbers were different in 1990，when marriage rates among the college graduates were at 69 percent，compared with 63 percent for those who did not go to college，says a Pew research report. The American Community Life Survey found around 1 in 10 college graduates say they have no close social connections.That number rises among Americans without a degree，where almost 1 in 4 say they have no close friends. 1．According to th