It is undoubtedly necessary for the government to adjust its policies to meet the challenge of an increasingly aging society. According to the government, China’s senior citizens above the age of 60 will reach 200 million, about 14.8 percent of the population, by the end of this year, and the figure is expected to grow to 248 million by the year of 2020 and more than 400 million by 2050, when they will account for 30 percent of the population. Meanwhile, extending the retirement age will result in several benefits — slowing the rapid increase of the retired, reducing the rapid decline in experienced workers and keeping the laborage population at a considerable size for stable economic development.
However, before the policy is drawn up there will need to be thorough research, so there can be careful consideration of the interests of all parties to make sure that the new policy does not harm the interests of workers in different jobs.
There are 112 million workers who do heavy physical labor and may not be willing to put off their retirement to a later age. And the opinions of government employees and other whitecollar workers will also need to be listened to before a policy is introduced to extend their retirement to a later age.
No doubt it will be impossible to please all, but it should be possible to make the policy acceptable to the most. Anyway, any extensions that will hopefully help reduce the negative influences of our increasingly aging society also need to be fair.
1. The text mainly tells us________.
A.China is going to enter an aging society |
B.All people agree to accept the policy |
C.Extending the retirement age will bring about multiple benefits |
D.China has planned to extend the retirement age |
A.China’s old people above the age of 50 will be about 14.8 percent of the population. |
B.Extending the retirement age may contribute to the economic development of China. |
C.Extending the retirement age may reduce the experienced workers. |
D.There will be about 248 million elders by 2050. |
A.All the workers will be pleased with the policy. |
B.The whitecollar workers go against the policy. |
C.There can be many difficulties in extending the retirement age. |
D.The government should please all so as to give up the policy. |
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【推荐1】Retirement Age
Retirement is the point where a person stops employment completely.The " standard" retirement age varies from country to country, but it is generally between 50 and 70, according to the latest statistics, 2011.However, for a long time, people have got into an argument about whether the age of retirement should be increased or reduced in their own countries.
There are several arguments for allowing older people to continue working as long as they are able.Many people think that older employees have a large amount of knowledge and experience which can be lost to a business or organization if they are made to retire.Besides, older employees are often extremely faithful employees to and are more willing toimplementcompany policies than the young.A more important point is regarding the attitudes in society to old people.To force someone to resign or retire at 60 or 65 indicates that the society does not value the input of these people and that effectively their useful life is over.
Allowing old people to work indefinitely (无限地), however, is not always a good policy.Some people took the strong view that age alone is no guarantee of ability.Many young employees have more experience or skills than older staff, who may have been stuck in one area for most of their working lives.Having compulsory retirement allows new ideas in an organization.On the other hand, older people should be rewarded by society for their life' s labor by being given generous pensions and the freedom to enjoy leisure.They can have time to do whatever they like, that is, they can have their own plans or roles and achieve their retirement goals.
With many young people unemployed or frustrated in low-level positions, there are often calls to compulsorily retire older workers.However, this can affect the older individual' s freedom—and right—to work.In my opinion, giving workers more choices over their retirement age will benefit society and the individual.
1. According to the passage, older people should go on with work because ____.A.they will help the business not to fail quickly |
B.they have grasped much practical experience |
C.they need to have a sense of achievement |
D.they want to learn more knowledge |
A.take over | B.work on | C.get rid of | D.carry out |
A.older people can' t do their work well |
B.young people usually have new ideas |
C.it is better for older people to retire on time |
D.older people would like to do something else |
A. | B. |
C. | D. |
【推荐2】Every August,Spain’s countryside comes alive with fiestas (宗教节日).But hardly anyone actually lives here. People come one week a year to party in the villages of their ancestors.During the other 51 weeks,villages are deserted.“There was a time when this place was growing! But not anymore.” says Felix Sacristan,who’s 55 and unemployed,living in his late grandfather’s house.“The only ones left are the elderly.There are lots of abandoned homes.”It makes for cheap housing,he says.
Like much of Spain’s central Meseta Table Plateau,this land is dusty and the climate is severe.People say it’s like nine months of winter and three months of burning hell.“This land used to be for cereals (谷物),but it’s difficult to grow anything else,”Sacristan says.“And who wants to be a farmer these days now,anyway?”
In northern Europe,the Industrial Revolution pulled people to big cities centuries ago.But in Spain,that migration happened much later.The first wave occurred after the Spanish Civil War in the late 1930s;the second,after Spain’s military governing ended in the late 1970s.Now there’s been a third leaving,during the recent economic crisis.But it’s not just on Spain’s severe central land.Even villages in the country’s most fertile northwest region,Galicia,are being depopulated.The Galician landscape once supported Spain’s highest population,and half of all Spanish villages are located there.Now nearly half of these villages are abandoned.
“Some of the places I’m finding have been empty for 50 or 60 years,” Adkinson,a British-born real estate (房地产)agent who searches the countryside for abandoned properties and tries to match them up with foreign buyers,says.
1. The text mainly tells about the present situation of .A.countryside life in Spain | B.the aging problem in Spain |
C.old buildings in Spain | D.the culture in Spain |
A.It is as rich as ever. | B.It is polluted by rubbish. |
C.It is hard to farm for a living. | D.It is frozen throughout the year. |
A.suffering disasters | B.gaining attention | C.producing more | D.reducing residents |
A.Villages got empty suddenly in Spain. | B.Some rich people are moving to countryside. |
C.Spanish have experienced several migrations. | D.Working as a real estate agent in Spain is very easy. |
【推荐3】Most of Bangladesh is at or below sea level. Rising seawaters linked to climate change has severely affected the country. High water from storms in coastal areas also adds salt to soil. The land is becoming salty. Crops are less productive and many areas of cropland in the country are becoming unfit for farming. These are big problems for the small country. More than 155 million people live in Bangladesh. Growing crops is the most common way Bangladeshis support themselves.
To find a way out, farmers in the country are learning to grow vegetables in so-called “vertical gardens”. The soil in these gardens is better because heavy rains have removed much of the salt.
A vertical garden is easy to make. Villagers fill containers with good soil and natural fertilizers. They put the containers on bricks so they are off the ground. They add pieces of the bricks to the soil to help water flow and drain(排水).
The farmers cut small holes into the sides of the containers. This permits vegetables with short roots a place to grow. Vegetables with long roots grow on top of the container. One bag of soil can produce up to eight kilograms of vegetables in one season.
The farmers also grow vegetables in containers made from large, thin pieces of plastic supported by bamboo. This “vertical tower” measures more than a meter wide. Each of these towers can produce more than 100 kilograms of vegetables. It costs about $12-S13 to build.
1. What is mentioned as a big problem for Bangladesh?A.Severe climate conditions. |
B.Too many people to support. |
C.Lack of enough fresh water. |
D.Reduced crop productivity. |
A.Places in the soil for roots. |
B.Heavy rains kept in the soil. |
C.The good soil with little salt. |
D.Brick pieces added to the soil. |
A.Bricks. | B.Fertilizers. | C.Villagers. | D.Containers. |
A.It is off the ground. |
B.It drains very improperly. |
C.It uses bamboo for containers. |
D.It is unfit for growing vegetables. |
【推荐1】Beginning in the late sixteenth century, it became fashionable for young aristocrats to visit Paris, Venice, Florence, and above all, Rome, as the culmination(终极)of their classical education. Thus was born the idea of the Grand Tour, a practice which introduced Englishmen, Germans, Scandinavians, and also Americans to the art and culture of France and Italy for the next 300 years. Travel was arduous and costly throughout the period, possible only for a privileged class---the same that produced gentlemen scientists, authors, antique experts, and patrons of the arts.
The Grand Tourist was typically a young man with a thorough grounding in Greek and Latin literature as well as some leisure time, some means, and some interest in art. The German traveler Johann Winckelmann pioneered the field of art history with his comprehensive study of Greek and Roman sculpture; he was portrayed by his friend Anton Raphael Mengs at the beginning of his long residence in Rome. Most Grand Tourists, however, stayed for briefer periods and set out with less scholarly intentions, accompanied by a teacher or guardian, and expected to return home with souvenirs of their travels as well as an understanding of art and architecture formed by exposure to great masterpieces.
London was frequent starting point for Grand Tourists, and Paris a compulsory destination; many traveled to the Netherlands, some to Switzerland and Germany, and a very few adventurers to Spain, Greece, or Turkey. The essential place to visit, however, was Italy. The British traveler Charles Thompson spoke for many Grand Tourist when in 1744 he described himself as “being impatiently desirous of viewing a country so famous in history, a country which one gave laws to the world, and which is at present the greatest school of music and painting, contains the noblest productions of sculpture and architecture, and is filled with cabinets of rarities, and collections of all kinds of historical relice”. Within Italy, the great focus was Rome, those ancient ruins and more recent achievements were shown to every Grand Tourist. Panini’s Ancient Rome and Modem Rome represent the sights most prized, including celebrated Greco-Rome statues and views of famous ruins, fountains, and churches. Since there were few museums anywhere in Europe before the close of the eighteenth century, Grand Tourists often saw paintings and sculptures by gaining admission to private collections, ad many were eager to acquire examples of a Greco-Rome and Italian art for their own collections. In England, where architecture was increasingly seen as an aristocratic pursuit, noblemen often applied what they learned from the villas of Palladio in the Veneto and the evocative (唤起回忆的)ruins of Rome to their own ceuntry houses and gardens.
1. What did Grand Tourists have in common?A.They had much geographic knowledge. |
B.They were courageous and venturesome. |
C.They were versed in literature and interested in art. |
D.They had enough travel and outdoor-life experience. |
A.They found inspiration in the world’s greatest masterpieces. |
B.They got a better understanding of early human civilization. |
C.They developed an interest in the origin of modern art forms. |
D.They gained some knowledge of classical art and architecture. |
A.There appeared more and more Roman-style villas. |
B.Many aristocrats began to move into Roman-style villas. |
C.Aristocrats’ country house all had Roman-style gardens. |
D.Italian architects were hired to design houses and gardens. |
【推荐2】Although Tokyo Olympic Games were unusual due to the COVID-19 pandemic, certain parts of the competition looked familiar, like watching judges write down scores in events from diving to skateboarding.
In the future, some of that judging could be handled by Artificial Intelligence (AI) tools, which could one day prove to be more accurate than human evaluation, according to Patrick Lucey, chief scientist at the sports data firm Stats Perform. Lucey predicted diving might be among the first sports to benefit from automated judging, with its relatively small and controlled environment compared to the complexity of, say, a gymnastics floor routine. “It would be transparent and there wouldn't be any confusion about bias (偏见),” says Lucey.
Automation is now playing an increasing role in human sports officiating (行使职责) the U.S. Open and other tennis tournaments have been dispensing with human line judges. Instead, they’re in favor of automated tools that determine ball placement, partly as a way to have fewer people on the field during the pandemic. And Minor League Baseball and other smaller professional baseball leagues have been experimenting with automated systems to help judges call balls and strikes.
Artificial intelligence can also provide athletes with real-time feedback on play and technique. Tools already exist to let even amateur athletes track their performance over time using videos obtained from a smart phone, and some apps will likely become more advanced as cameras and software continue to improve. Tennis app Swing Vision can offer real-time analysis of your game based on videos made with any iPhone or iPad, and Home Court can offer similar feedback for basketball players. And golfers have a range of tools to use to improve their game, including some that use videos and some that collect data from advanced sensors.
These technologies are already here, which is expected to promise fully automated judging at the level of the Olympics in terms of future development. But for this full automation to come and replace what is now completely, the sports world will demand a higher level of accuracy.
1. Why may AI judges first be applied to diving according to Patrick Lucey?A.Because of its short competing time. |
B.Because of the confusion about bias behind it. |
C.Because of its simple and limited competing environment. |
D.Because of the small number of athletes and judges involved. |
A.Checking up on. | B.Making use of |
C.Giving way to. | D.Getting rid of. |
A.The importance of live feedback for athletes. |
B.AI tools’ role in athletes’ training and practice. |
C.Differences among the apps used in ball games. |
D.The development of the apps in the sports field. |
A.It has room for further improvement. | B.It will appear in the Olympics soon. |
C.It will likely cause some controversy. | D.It is well received in the world of sports. |
【推荐3】Chinese is one of the world’s most widely spoken language. As one of the six official languages used by United Nations, Chinese now has gained itself greater status (地位) in the world. Chinese is interesting and special. Unlike most other languages, Chinese has a written form and several spoken forms. The official language of China is the Mandarin (普通话).
Mandarin is a statement in China. It is the common language of all modern Han nationality people. Mandarin is shaped and based on the Beijing dialect (方言) and other dialects spoken in the northern areas of China. Mandarin is taught in schools throughout the country. The media, officials, and the government use Mandarin as their main language. When you type in Chinese, you use a phonetic system, called pinyin, which matches the Mandarin pronunciation. Mandarin is used as a mother tongue by most people who are about one fifth of the world’s population. Chinese once had very great influence on some neighboring countries with their languages and characters, such as Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese and so on. In addition to China, Mandarin is an official language in several other countries in Asia.
Nowadays, with the development of China, Chinese people not only speak Chinese, but also learn other languages, such as English. English is a required course and universal education in China and has great popularity. Many Chinese people can speak basic English, especially the youth, students, and staff of service trades like hotels, restaurants, airlines, banks and post offices. In large cities, there are more people who can communicate with foreigners in English. The language communication now is not a problem at all for those that wish to come to China.
Now Chinese is becoming more and more popular. As long as you know Chinese, you’ll also be fine anywhere in China.
1. What can we learn from paragraph 1?A.Chinese has one written and spoken form. |
B.The official language of China is Beijing dialect. |
C.Chinese plays an important role in the world. |
D.Chinese is used as one of the five official languages. |
A.The wrong opinions in Mandarin. | B.The status and influence of Mandarin. |
C.The advantages of Mandarin. | D.The results of learning Mandarin. |
A.To show the changes in English. | B.To advise people to travel in England. |
C.To introduce the present situation of English in China. | D.To call on people in China to learn English. |
A.More and more foreigners will learn Chinese. | B.English will be influenced by Chinese. |
C.The difficulties of learning Chinese. | D.The history of Chinese. |