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Divorce is bad for environment US rearchers raid a new theory on Monday: divorce is bad for the environment. The global trend toward higher divorce rates has created more houholds with fewer People，scientists at Michigan State University reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences．More houholds means more hous，fuel and water are Heeded for them，the rearchers  wrote．“Globally，the number of houholds is increasing much faster than the number ofpeople，”said co-author “Jack” Liu in a telephone interview. “Even in regions with declining populationn, we e substantial increa in the number of houholds. Divorce is the main reason for reducingthe number of people in a houhold,” he said. The average divorced person’s houhold is about 40 to 50 percent smaller than the average married person’s houhold, Liu said. But whether there are three or six people in a hou ,the amount of fuel needed to heat them is about the same. In the United States, divorced houholds ud 74 billion kilowatt—hours of electricity and 2.850 trillion liters of water in 2005, half of which could have been saved if houholds had stayed the same size as when they were married.In the United States and 11 other countries between 1998 and 2002, if divorced houholds had combined to have the same average houhold size as married houholds, there could have been 7.4 million fewer houholds.The number of divorced houholds in tho countries ranged from 40,000 in Costa Rica toalmost 16 million in the United States around 2000. The number of rooms per person in divorced houholds was 33 percent to 95 percent greater than in married houholds.“If you really want to get divorced, maybe you can remarry with somebody el, or live together with somebody el you like”, Liu said.1. In America when the number of houholds is_________, the number of people in a hou is__________.A. increasing, decreasing   B. decreasing, increasingC. increasing, increasing   D. decreasing, decreasing 2. What does the word “substantial” in the third paragraph mean? A. Great    B. Little   C. Sudden    D. Timely 3. How much electricity would have been saved without so many people getting divorced in America in 2005? A. 7.4 million kilowatt-hours B. 16 million kilowatt-hours C. 37 billion kilowatt-hours D. about 30 billion kilowatt-hours 4. The last paragraph is the writer’s_________for people. A. advice    B. encouragement C. demand  D. order 题型：未知难度：其他题型

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