【正文】 s. 9 (2) A problem that affects a much larger number of working wives is the need to reallocate domestic tasks if there are children. In The Road to Wigan Pier Gee Orwell wrote of the unemployed of the Lancashire coalfields: Practically never ... in a workingclass home, will you see the man doing a stroke of the housework. Unemployment has not changed this convention, which on the face of it seems a little unfair. The man is idle from morning to night but the woman is as busy as ever more so, indeed, because she has to manage with less money. Yet so far as myexperience goes the women do not protest. They feel that a man would lose his manhood if, merely because he was out of work, he developed in a Mary Ann 3) It is over the care of young children that this reallocation of duties bees really significant. 。s opinion American firms are not doing anything to deal with the issue of the ageing workforce mainly because A. they have not been aware of the problem. B. they are reluctant to hire older workers. C. they are not sure of what they should do. D. they have other options to consider. 20. Which of the following best describes the author39。a lot of time39。 Young found that although corporate America foresees a significant workforce shortage as boomers retire, it is not dealing with the issue. Almost threequarters of the 1,400 global panies questioned by Deloitte last year said they expected a shortage of salaried staff over the next three to five years. Yet few of them are looking to older workers to fill that shortage。s most advanced manufacturer, has adapted its workstations to older workers. The shortage of skilled labour available to the automotive industry has made it unusually keen to recruit older workers. BMW recently set up a factory in Leipzig that expressly set out to employ people over the age of 45. Needs must when the devil firms are polishing their alumni works. IBM uses its work to recruit retired people for particular projects. Ernst amp。 about 35% of Deere39。s latest list es Deere amp。s worth of experience has walked outthe door, leaving insufficient talent to fill in the void. Some also face a shortage of expertise. In aerospace and defence, for example, as much as40% of the workforce in some panies will be eligible to retire within the next five years. At the same time, the number of engineering graduates in developed countries is in steep decline. A few panies are so squeezed that they are already taking exceptional measures. Earlierthis year the Los Angeles Times interviewed an enterprising Australian who was staying in Beverly Hills while he tried to persuade locals to emigrate to Toowoomba, Queensland, to workfor his engineering pany there. Toowoomba today。 palace. No guides were available so it was doityourself, using our guidebook,which cheated us of a lot of interesting history and anecdotes that a professional guide could provide. Next time, we resolved to make such arrangements in , with its imperial treasures, its courtyards and its harem. The last required a bit of explanation that we would have happily lef~to a learned third party. 11. The couple chose Istanbul as their holiday destination mainly because A. the city is not too far away from where they lived. B. the city is not on the list of the . State Department. C. the city is between the familiar and the exotic. D. the city is more familiar than exotic. 12. Which of the following statements is INCORRECT? A. The family found the city was exactly what they had expected. B. Their friends were opposed to their holiday plan. C. They could have been more cautious about bringing kids along. D. They were a bit cautious about the quality of water in the city. 1