【正文】 章，語言流暢，觀點(diǎn)清晰，多處表述有閃光點(diǎn)。 7． B They find it hard to balance career and family. 解析： promise 關(guān)鍵字找到第九段，關(guān)鍵字出現(xiàn)的句子前一句就是 B 選項(xiàng)。 5． D younger workers are readily available 解析：題目中 employer 為關(guān)鍵字，找到第六段，該段看似沒有 直接提到為什么雇主不愿意雇傭 old workers，但從其不斷分析新涌現(xiàn)出來的勞動(dòng)力替代者，可以總結(jié)的出 D 選項(xiàng)，即年輕勞動(dòng)力的供給已足以滿足企業(yè)需求。 (2)表明一部分人的看法。 America‘s most popular newspaper website today announced that the era of free online journalism is drawing to a close. The New York Times has bee the biggest publisher yet to 62 plans for a paywall around its digital offering, 63 the accepted practice that inter users will not pay for news. Struggling 64 an evaporation of advertising and a downward drift in street corner sales, The New York Times 65 to introduce a ―metered‖ model at the beginning of 2022. Readers will be required to pay when they have 66 a set number of its online articles per month. The decision puts the 159yearold newspaper 67 the charging side of an increasingly wide chasm (鴻溝 ) in the media industry. But others, including the Guardian, have said they will not 68 inter readers, and certain papers, 69 London‘s Evening Standard, have gone further in abandoning readership revenue by making their print editions 70 . The New York Times‘s publisher, Arthur Sulzberger, 71 that the move is a gamble: ―This is a 72 , to a certain degree, in where we think the web is going.‖ Boasting a print 73 of 995,000 on weekdays and million on Sundays, The New York Times is the third bestselling American newspaper, 74 the Wall Street Journal and USA Today. 75 most US papers focus on a single city, The New York Times is among the few that can 76 national scope—as well as 16 bureaus in the New York area, it has 11 offices around the US and 77 26 bureaus elsewhere in the world. But 78 many in the publishing industry, the paper is in the grip of a 79 financial crisis. Its parent pany, the New York Times Company, has 15 papers, but 80 a loss of $70 million in the nine months to September and recently accepted a $250 million 81 from a Mexican billionaire, Carlos Slim, to strengthen its balance sheet. 62. [A] set in [C] carry over [B] set out [D] carry away 63. [A] abusing [C] developing [B] deducting [D] abandoning 64. [A] with [C] along [B] beside [D] by 65. [A] engages [C] deliberates [B] intends [D] signifies 66. [A] exceeded [C] assumed [B] multiplied [D] revealed 67. [A] on [C] over [B] of [D] up 68. [A] cost [C] expend [B] consume [D] charge 69. [A] as for [C] such as [B] far from [D] by far 70. [A] reliable [C] applicable [B] free [D] easy 71. [A] resisted [C] acknowledged [B] certified [D] appealed 72. [A] [C] bet [B] kit [D] pit 73. [A] evaluation [C] circulation [B] expansion [D] dimension 74. [A] behind [C] before [B] against [D] within 75. [A] If [C] Hence [B] While [D] Because 76. [A] ascend [C] lengthen [B] announce [D] claim 77. [A] contributes [C] maintains [B] disposes [D] encounters 78. [A] like [C] from [B] beyond [D] through 79. [A] heavy [C] rough [B] crude [D] serious 80. [A] targeted [C] suffered [B] suspended [D] tolerated 81. [A] asset [C] account [B] bill [D] loan Part VI Translation (5 minutes) Directions: Complete the sentences by translating into English the Chinese given in brackets. Please write your translation on Answer Sheet 2. 注意： 此部分試題請(qǐng)?jiān)诖痤}卡 2 上作答，只需寫出譯文部分。 many rich countries need helping hands that will boost tax revenues and keep up economic growth. But over the next few decades labour forces in rich countries are set to shrink so much that inflows of immigrants would have to increase enormously to pensate: to at least twice their current size in western Europe‘s most youthful countries, and three times in the older ones. Japan would need a large multiple of the few immigrants it has at present. Public opinion polls show that people in most rich countries already think that immigration is too high. Further big increases would be politically unfeasible. To tackle the problem of ageing populations at its root, ―old‖ countries would have to rejuvenate (使年輕 ) themselves by having more of their own children. A number of them have tried, some more successfully than others. But it is not a simple matter of offering financial incentives or providing more child care. Modern urban life in rich countries is not well adapted to large families. Women find it hard to bine family and career. They often promise by having just one child. And if fertility in ageing countries does not pick up? It will not be the end of the world, at least not for quite a while yet, but the world will slowly bee a different place. Older societies may be less innovative and more strongly disinclined to take risks than younger ones. By 2025 at the latest, about half the voters in America and most of those in western European countries will be over 50—and older people turn out to vote in much greater number than younger ones. Academic studies have found no evidence so far that older voters have used their power at the ballot box to push for policies that specifically benefit them, though if in future there are many more of them they might start doing so. Nor is there any sign of the intergenerational warfare predicted in the 1990s. After all, older people themselves mostly have families. In a recent study of parents and grownup children in 11 European countries, Karsten Hank of Mannheim University found that 85% of them lived within 25km of each other and the majority of them were in touch at least once a week. Even so, the shift in the centre of gravity to older age groups is bound to have a profound effect on societies, not just economically and polit