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A lightly mockery word has been coined to define the single female group abo

游客2023-11-26  20
问题     A lightly mockery word has been coined to define the single female group above the average age for marriage—"leftover women". Is this a personal business or a social issue? Read the excerpt carefully and write your response in about 300 words, in which you should:
    1. summarize briefly the author’s opinion;
    2. give your comment.
    Marks will be awarded for content relevance, content sufficiency, organization and language quality. Failure to follow the above instructions may result in a loss of marks.
                Young, Single and What About It?
    In her tiny flat, which she shares with two cats and a flock of porcelain owls, Chi Yingying describes her parents as wanting to be the controlling shareholders in her life. Even when she was in her early 20s, her mother raged at her for being unmarried. At 28, Ms. Chi made "the most courageous decision of my life" and moved into her own home. Now 33, she relishes the privacy—at a price: her monthly rent of 4,000 yuan swallows nearly half her salary.
    In many countries, leaving the family home well before marriage is a rite of passage. But in China choosing to live alone and unmarried is eccentric verging on taboo. Chinese culture attaches a particularly high value to the idea that families should live together. Yet ever more people are living alone.
    In the decade to 2010, the number of single-person households doubled. Today, over 58m Chinese live by themselves, according to census data, a bigger number of one-person homes than in America, Britain and France combined. Solo dwellers make up 14% of all households.
    The pattern of Chinese living alone is somewhat different from that in the West, because tens of millions of (mainly poor) migrant workers have moved away from home to find work in more prosperous regions of China; many in this group live alone, often in shoe boxes. Yet for the most part, younger Chinese living alone are from or among the better-off. "Freedom and new wealth" have broken China’s traditional family structures, says Jing Jun of Tsinghua University in Beijing.
    For the better-educated under-30-year-olds, the more money they have, the more likely they are to live alone. Rich parts of China have more non-widowed single dwellers: in Beijing a fifth of homes house only one person. The marriage age is rising, particularly in big cities such as Shanghai and Guangzhou, where the average man marries after 30 and the average woman at 28, older than their American counterparts. Divorce rates are also increasing, though they are still much lower than in America. More than 3.5m Chinese couples split up each year, which adds to the number of single households.
    For some, living alone is a transitional stage on the way to marriage, remarriage or family reunification. But for a growing number of people it may be a permanent state. In cities, many educated, urban women stay single, often as a positive choice—a sign of rising status and better employment opportunities. Rural areas, by contrast, have a skewed sex ratio in which men outnumber women, a consequence of families’ preferring sons and aborting female fetuses or abandoning baby girls. The consequence is millions of reluctant bachelors.
    In the past, adulthood in China used to, almost without exception, mean marriage and having children within supervised rural or urban structures. Now a growing number of Chinese live beyond prying eyes, able to pursue the social and sexual lives they choose.
    Living alone does not have to mean breaching social norms—phones and the Internet make it easier than ever to keep in touch with relations, after all. Yet loosening family ties may open up space for new social networks, interest groups, even political aspirations.
    For now those who live alone are often subject to mockery. Unmarried females are labelled "leftover women" ; unmarried men, "bare branches"—for the family tree they will never grow. An online group called "women living alone" is stacked with complaints about being told to "get a boyfriend".
    Write your response on ANSWER SHEET FOUR.
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答案                 My Views on Leftover Women
    In this nearly magical room, amid balmy air from the outside and whirling lectures within, you can hear a group of smartly-dressed women chatting. This is not a party of women of misandry but rather, fresh-baked believers with a redoubled commitment to the world and to themselves.
    Dubbed as "leftovers", a somewhat derogatory term that categorizes single women who willingly stay out of marriage, these women detach themselves from pushy parents and prying eyes. Living in a tradition-abound country where value is highly attached to family, living alone yet unmarried is eccentric. Yet more adopt solo-dwelling for several reasons. First, migrant workers move away from home to work in more vibrant cities. Second, the richer generation live alone in pursuit of freedom. Third, the increasing divorce rate contributes to solo-dwelling. Interesting though, many well-educated urban women stay single permanently while the rural areas abound in reluctant bachelors owing to imbalance in gender. Whatever the case, living alone can’t be viewed as breaching social norms thanks to the prevalent social networks.
    Once rather an "elephant in the room" , " leftover" issue nowadays has become an open topic to generous discussion. In the past, when women reached their late twenties, they had to wade through the dilemma of getting married or not which hung like the sword of Damocles. Thanks to rising status coupled with a hefty income, a new surge of women choose to remain single as a positive choice. Brimming with confidence and untroubled life, they either enjoy each other’s exalted company or the crossbeams of appreciation from more than one single person. Instead of becoming spear-carriers in their marriage, they undertake the psychic rupture with it, only to find there is a much wider world ahead.
    Marriage, in its very nature, should be based on true love. If not, it may lose its allure to the kind who would rather choose to bottle up or say to indulge in this world riddled with all possibilities.
解析 本题探讨的是中国的“剩女”这一社会现象，属于社会生活类话题。题目要求简要概括所给材料中关于“剩女”的观点；并发表自己的评论。在具体行文方面，考生可以开篇点题，简要概括材料中的观点；然后提出自己对这一问题产生的原因的分析，并给出充分的论据支撑；最后总结全文，重述论点或者升华主题。
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