Daily social relations in France have always been dominated by
family ties. The family has been the focus of the individual’s loyalty and
(47) , of his economic interest, and even of his (48)
duty. Many an older Frenchman has spent his youth in a World where the
family’s needs and demands were put before those of the local (49)
or even of the State. The main change since the war is
that the focus of loyalty has been (50) narrowing from
the" (51) family" to the "nuclear family", i.e. the home cell
of parents and children. In the rural areas the traditionally big peasant
families have lost their influence as the young (52) away to
the town. And in the upper class families, as (53) gives way
to income and family management disappears, the tight network of the big family
gathering has become less necessary for the individual’s future, and also less
easy to (54) . Though clan(宗族) loyalties
towards more distant relatives become weak, an adult’s ties with his own parents
and even their parents often remain (55) strong. And if many
young people are today trying to lead more emotionally independent lives, it is
often not without a sense of guilt, or an (56) of the pain it
causes to their parents. A) awareness
F) classification
K) immediately B) steadily
G) affection
L) community C) remarkably
H) impressive
M) extended D) maintain
I) legal
N) profit E) manipulate
J) drift
O) property