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By late middle age many workers are looking forward to retirement, and milli
By late middle age many workers are looking forward to retirement, and milli
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2023-11-23
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By late middle age many workers are looking forward to retirement, and millions of those who have retired are【C1】______ glad to exchange the routines of work【C2】______ the satisfaction that a more leisured life may bring. Many other workers are 【C3】______ to give up their jobs. The desire to continue working often【C4】______ harsh economic reality, for retirement usually brings a sharp drop in income. Some workers fear the loss of social identity that can result from 【C5】______ a job. They may be left with "nothing to do" ,and may find that they are【C6】______ a life with significant meaning and fulfillment. Those old people who would like to continue working are too often victims of【C7】______ is perhaps the most striking example of age discrimination, the practice of mandatory retirement,【C8】______ people are forced to give up their jobs【C9】______ when they reach a certain age. Until recently the precise age for mandatory retirement【C10】______ from job to job. The usual mandatory retirement age in the U. S. A. , however, was sixty-five.
The objection to mandatory retirement is that it throws people out of their jobs at a【C11】______ arbitrary age, with out any regard to their individual abilities. There is no【C12】______ to suggest that most people over the age of sixty-five or seventy are【C13】______ working; at the turn of the century, in fact,70 percent of men over sixty-five were 【C14】______ in the labour force. Mandatory retirement【C15】______ implies that people are capable of productive labour【C16】______ the day before their seventieth birthday, then【C17】______ become physically or mentally incapable of【C18】______ their jobs. It also implies that we treat all members of the same age group 【C19】______ they had identical competence or incompetence at their jobs when, in fact, the mental and the physical abilities of any group of people【C20】______ at the same time become more dissimilar, not more similar, as they grow older. [br] 【C17】
选项
A、awfully
B、abruptly
C、awkwardly
D、suspiciously
答案
B
解析
suspiciously意为“多疑地”;abruptly意为“突然地”;awkwardly意为“尴尬地”;awfully意为“令人畏惧地”。
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