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 ’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