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Every year around Valentine's Day, men begin to
worry about what {#blank#}1{#/blank#} (present) to buy and women
{#blank#}2{#/blank#} (fill) with hope and
expectation. Or the other way around. In China, more couples get married on
that very day, {#blank#}3{#/blank#} (add) romance to their
promises. But for many, love is neither the matter-of-course choice {#blank#}4{#/blank#} the preferred one. More young, working urban residents are
delaying or even choosing not to {#blank#}5{#/blank#} (active) seek their
partners despite the social pressure from the older generations to do so.
Over the years, China's divorce rate has
exceeded (超过) that of marriage. According to the statistics
from the Ministry of Civil Affairs, 10 million couples registered for marriage
in 2017 fell by 7% {#blank#}6{#/blank#} (compare) with the same
period last year, while 43.7 million couples divorced, 5.2% more than the same
period last year.
There is also a growing trend towards people
marrying later: since 2013, the number of couples aged 25 to 29 has been
greater than {#blank#}7{#/blank#} of younger couples. In the
{#blank#}8{#/blank#} (late) survey on
professional attitudes towards love and marriage, more than half of the
investigated in Yangzhou, {#blank#}9{#/blank#} second-level city on the
East coast, were satisfied {#blank#}10{#/blank#} their marriage after 35.