When Pilar Jiménez got married in 1961, she knew her marriage would last. 'Back then, no one separated,' says the 71-year-old lady.'Marriage was for life.' Indeed, her husband and she lived happily until he passed away two years ago. But if her marriage wa typical of its time, so are those of her 10 children: five of them are now divorced.
The rate of broken marriages has risen steadily since Spain legalized(合法化) divorce in 1981, and a 2005 reform has caused those numbers to skyrocket.The reform has allowed couples to separate for one year before divorce. As a result, Spain now has on divorce for every 2.3 marriages - an increase of 74% in the past two years alone.
For the Catholic Church, Spain's rising divorce rate shows the morality (道德)is being threatened,and this threat comes from the government, whose power has no longer remained in the Church. Cardinal(红衣主教)Augustín García-Gasco believes that radical separation of politics and religion has led to nothing but despair along with abortion and fast divorce. Benigno Blanco, president of the Spanish Forum for the Family, agrees, 'The reform has made the marriage contract useless.'
However,Spaniards(西班牙人)no longer feel shameful by the prospect of divorce. A website named 'divorcioexpress.com' offers couples agreements on divorce through the Internet. 'We facilitate about 100 divorces a month,'Alberto Gillette, the founder of the website, says, 'but we're not encouraging divorce, just making it easier to get.'Like the companies, some sociologists also think it unreasonable to be worried about the divorce boom, because the number of separations is dropping down when that of divorces is increasing. 'In the past, when it came to the issue on divorce, Spain seemed unique in Europe.' Sociologist Inés Alberdi says, 'Now we're more like other European countries.'
1. The comparsion of Pilar Jiménez and her children leads to().
A、the happiness of marriage and family
B、the change of divorce rate
C、separation of politics and religion
D、sugges pns to avoid family conflicts
2.The word 'skyrocket' (paragraph 2, line 2) means().
A、to increase sharply
B、to remain unchanged
C、to fluctuate
D、to go down fast
3.The Augustín García-Gasco' s attitude to radical separation of politics and religion is().
A、indifferent
B、disapproving
C、supportive
D、admiring
4.The 'divorcioexpress.com' is likely to prove that().
A、the government is suffering the moral threats
B、Spaniards think much of the divorce problem
C、so many Spaniards are thinking about divorce
D、couples can divorce without any restrictions
5.The best title of the passage is().
A、Divorce become more and more ordinary.
B、The bad effects of divorce.
D、High rate of divorce is based on separation of politics and religion
D、A good wesite for couples to disscuss about divorce.