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A recent BBC documentary, "The Town That Never Retired", sought to show the
A recent BBC documentary, "The Town That Never Retired", sought to show the
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A recent BBC documentary, "The Town That Never Retired", sought to show the effects of (1)_____ the state pension age by putting retirees back to work.(2)_____ the results were entertaining, they need not have(3)_____. Away from the cameras,(4)_____ numbers of older people are staying in work. Since the start of the recession, the number of 16- to 24-year-olds in work has fallen by 597,000. Over the same(5)_____ the number of workers over the age of 65 has increased by 240,000.
The(6)_____ of the British workforce dates back to around 2001,(7)_____ when the proportion of older people working has nearly doubled. But it has(8)_____ since the start of the recession. There are several(9)_____ why. Happily, people are living longer and healthier lives, which makes staying in work less(10)than it was.(11)_____ happily, low interest rates, a stagnant stock market and the end of many defined-benefit pension schemes make it a financial(12)_____. And changing attitudes,(13)_____ by rules against age discrimination, are making it easier than ever.
Most older workers are simply(14)_____ at the office: 63% of workers over state pension age have been with their employer for more than ten years. Over two-thirds of them work part-time, mostly doing jobs that they once(15)_____ full-time. A big (16)_____ is that they do not pay national insurance contributions—effectively a second income tax on younger workers.
According to Stephen McNair, director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce, this (17)_____ explains why older workers have not suffered so much in the slump.(18)_____ reducing the workforce, as in previous recessions, many firms have(19)_____ recruitment and cut working hours. At small businesses(20)______, keeping on older workers is cheaper and less risky than training replacements. [br] (14)
选项
A、running on
B、dwelling on
C、hanging on
D、counting on
答案
C
解析
冒号后的句子起解释说明的作用,该句提到63%已达到退休年龄的人已为其雇主工作了十年以上,hang on表示“继续做”,符合文意。run on“连续下来”;dwell on“细想”:count on“依靠”。
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