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III. 篇章結構：10％，每題 2 分During the period from 1648 to 1780, Europe was not well off everywhere. Famine wasthe occasional collective crisis in the life of the poor. 33 Poverty was the normalcondition of at least half the people of Europe. Of this mass the more fortunate did certainlylive in a reasonably secure way: they were those who had sufficient land, perhaps 15 acres ormore, or a regular living wage. 34 Below those fortunate ones ranged a great many whocould slide into the pit of destitution at any time. Because of the lack of realizable assets, debtwas a familiar condition everywhere: unlikely to be repaid, usually the start of a progressive第 4 頁／共 8 頁decline. 35 It might be illness or injury to a bread winner, the failure of a crop or thedeath of a cow—any one such event could be fatal.There was a tendency to marry later, while a surprisingly high proportion of westernEuropean girls, between 10 to 15 percent, did not marry at all. Among the rest, almost halfmarried after the age of 25. 36 On the other hand, there was generally no understandingof birth control for the poor, though in desperation a couple might practice some voluntaryabstinence.37 The prevalence of infanticide has a grim significance. A drain opened in Rennes inthe course of rebuilding in 1721 revealed the skeletons of eighty babies suffocated in the firsthours of life.
(A) Anyone who possesses neither goods nor chattels is destined to fall into misery at theleast accident.
(B) The poor had no reserves, and the third or fourth child was a disaster for many youngfamilies.
(C) Nature has way of restoring the precarious balance between people and resources.
(D) As the price of bread soared beyond the earning capacity of the poor, the church began totake over obligations of relief.(AB) This was the key to the rate of child-bearing—the real contraceptive weapon of classicalEurope.(AC) Whatever the variants, the essence of the situation was that enough was earned to providethe daily bread.
33.

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答案：C
難度：困難0.324324
統計：A(14),B(10),C(12),D(0),E(0)

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