Unit 9（老年人退休） 英美报刊选读教材.ppt

Unit 9 Do the Elderly Want to Work? Culture:10 Important Bestselling U.S. Magazines Reader’s digest National Geographic Family Circle Time People Weekly Newsweek American Legion U.S. News and World Report Smithsonian 《史密斯森学会》杂志 Star《明星》 I. Culture: 1. social security: 1935年，美国政府通过“社会保障条例”，对老年或残疾人以及贫苦儿童、失业工人等给予最低额救济金。 2. baby boom: 指二战后1947-1961年间美国的生育高峰期。 baby boomer指生育高峰期出生的人。 Mcdonalds:McDucks (sl.)美国最大的快餐联营店。以专售汉堡包快餐为特色，总部设在IL橡树溪。国外分店，9530。 Brookings Institution: cf concise AARP: American Association of Retired Persons codger: an often mildly eccentric and usually elderly fellow old codger Legion: a very large number : MULTITUDE Itch: to have a restless desire or hankering for something were itching to go outside figure out: DISCOVER, DETERMINE try to figure out a way to do it2 : SOLVE, FATHOM figure out a problem Mores:the fixed morally binding customs of a particular group 习俗，惯例 2 : moral attitudes3 : HABITS, MANNERS whopping:extremely large; also : EXTRAORDINARY, INCREDIBLE exodus: a mass departure The bottomless pit: New Testament: the hell flurry: a sudden occurrence of many things at once : BARRAGE 2 a flurry of insults Conviction: a: strong persuasion or belief b : the state of being convinced Keep one’s noses at the grindstone:使自己埋头从事辛苦的劳动 Flip: to cause to turn and especially to turn over flipped the carflipping the pages of a book b : to move with a small quick motion Oldster: an old or elderly person Notes 1. A flurry of press reports…at mcDonald’s a flurry of: a sudden occurrence of many things at once : e.g. a flurry of insults Flip: toss Structure Part 1: Present tendency: (Para 1) Part 2: Wrong notion: the elderly want to keep jobs Reasons: 1. Confusion 2. Wrong estimate of retirement’s impact on economy 3 Failure to distinguish those who want to work and those who don’t Part 3 (para4-5): Three factors for early retirement 1 economic 2 social 3 health Part 4 : (para 6-7)Real picture Part 5: (para 8-9)The best way to help: