10. Title: Families of the Past, Present and Future
Time Limit: 40 minutes
Word Limit: no less than 120 words
参考范文
Families of the Past, Present and Future
Since the beginning of the century great changes have been made in families. It is because of the development of industry that families have become much smaller than they were.
In the past, when more people lived in the countryside, the typical family had many children. In a family, parents and their children lived with grandparents. Often, too, uncles and aunts lived nearby. Women traditionally stayed at home, with their husbands working in the fields.
But since industry became more important than agriculture families have become smaller. Moreover, industry requires workers who are ready and able to move off the land and to move again wherever necessary, and more and more women began to earn money by working outside. So smaller families can be moved from place to place.
In the future, because of industrialization, a typical family will be required to move even more often than now, so families will be even smaller. The typical family may remain childless and consist only of man and a woman. A smaller number of families may raise children as their chief occupation, leaving the childless families free to move from job to job.
