2010年12月大学英语六级考试真题 copyright yingyuzhijia.com
Part I Writing (30 minutes) copyright www.yingyuzhijia.com
My View on University Ranking
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1. 目前高校排名相当盛行 本文来自英语之家
2. 对于这种做法人们看法不一 copyright www.yingyuzhijia.com
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Into the Unknown copyright yingyuzhijia.com
The world has never seen population ageing before. Can it cope?
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Until the early 1990s nobody much thought about whole populations getting older. The UN had the foresight to convene a “world assembly on ageing” back in 1982, but that came and went. By 1994 the World Bank had noticed that something big was happening. In a report entitled “Averting the Old Age Crisis”, it argued that pension arrangements in most countries were unsustainable.
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For the next ten years a succession of books, mainly by Americans, sounded the alarm. They had titles like Young us Old, Gray Dawn and The Coming Generational Storm, and their message was blunt: health-care systems were heading for the rocks, pensioners were taking young people to the cleaners, and soon there would be intergenerational warfare.
Since then the debate has become less emotional, not least because a lot more is known about the subject. Books, conferences and research papers have multiplied. International organizations such as the OECD and the EU issue regular reports. Population ageing is on every agenda, from G8 economic conferences to NATO summits. The World Economic Forum Plans to consider the future of pensions and health care at its prestigious Davos conference early next year. The media, including this newspaper, are giving the subject extensive coverage. 本文来自英语之家
Whether all that attention has translated into sufficient action is another question. Governments in rich countries now accept that their pension and health-care promises will soon become unaffordable, and many of them have embarked on reforms, but so far only timidly. That is not surprising: politicians with an eye on the next election will hardly rush to introduce unpopular measures that may not bear fruit for years, perhaps decades. 本文来自英语之家