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Alone More and more Americans are living alone. Some live
alone because of divorce or the death of a partner. (1)
According to a recent US census (人口普查), 25 per cent of all households in the
US are made up of just one person. This is a dramatic change from the extended
families of just a couple of generations ago. The typical person
living alone is neither old nor lonely. (2) The majority of
these people have chosen to live alone. They are responding to decreasing social
pressure to get married and have a family. It’s now socially
acceptable, even fashionable, to live alone. As people get better jobs and
become financially independent, it becomes possible for them to maintain a one.
Person household. (3) However, people who do get married
are marrying at a later age and divorcing more often. The number
one reason given by most people for living alone is that they simply enjoy doing
what they want when they want to do it. "Living alone is a luxury," says Nina
Hagiwara, "Once you do it, you can’t ever go back to living with others."
David C’ Debaca, agrees. (4) Children think that being
grown up means being able to do exactly as they please. (5)
.The chance to discover whether that freedom is as wonderful as it
sounds is a chance more and more Americans are taking. A.
There’s more pressure to get married nowadays. B. The growing
number of women with good jobs has done much to increase the number of people
living alone. C. However, even more people are living alone
because they have chosen to. D. It seems that many grown-ups
today are realizing that childhood dream E. In fact, a quarter
of the 23 million single people in the US are under the age of 35.
F. He says, "I like being by myself."