施心远主编《听力教程》3 (第2版)Unit 7课件.pptVIP

Listen to the passage and choose the best answers. 1. D …for five decades 2. D at each state of their lives 3. B Now that the leading edge of the generation has turned 50. 4. B …fell from35% in 1959 to 11% in 1995 5. C What is meant by “adequate”? One definition is to have enough resources to maintain pre-retirement living standards in retirement. A rule of thumb often used by financial planners is that retirees should be able to meet this goal by replacing 60-80% of pre-retirement income. 6. C …because they have more leisure time, fewer household members, and lower expenses. 7. A From a public policy perspective, assuring that retirees maintain 100% of pre-retirement living standards may be overly ambitious. But should policymakers aim to ensure that they maintain 90% of their living standards? Or that they stay out of poverty? Or use some other criterion? Retirement planning takes time, and the these issues need to be addressed sooner rather than later. 8. C …the crucial retirement issues—health care, asset markets, Social Security, life span—keep changing rapidly, making long-term predictions even harder. Exercise D After-listening Discussion 1. How have the boomers altered the economic patterns in the United States? The boomers have altered economic patterns from jamming the nation’s schools in the 1950s and 1960s, to crowding labor markets and housing markets in the 1970s and 1980s, to affecting consumption patterns almost continuously. 2.What do you think about the aging problem in China? Will it affect consumption patterns? Open Section Three News Focus: Medicine Recognizing facts Summary News Item 1 Pre-listening: Vocabulary conception 怀孕; 受孕 prenatal adj.产前的, 出生前的 maternal adj. （似）母亲的 rodent n. 啮齿类动物 hyperactive （尤指儿童）活跃得反常的, 多动的 obese （指人）过度肥胖的 diabetes n.糖尿病 low-protein 低蛋白的 offspring n. 子孙，后代；(动物的)崽 deficiency 缺乏; 缺少 Ex. A: Listen and complete the summary This news item is