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【正文】 Section 32. Sections 4 and 53. Section 6Discuss your notes with other students. Compare your notes with the model supplied by your teacher.a. What do you find most interesting or effective about the notes provided by your teacher?b. Do you think your own notes are effective? Reflect on your notetaking. Discuss the following with other students.1. What strategies did you use to carry out the task?2. Were your strategies successful?Key reading skills: Notetaleing strategiesReading and making notes is an essential academic skill. Making notes enables you to reflect on your understanding of the text and helps you to organise your ideas. Be prepared to try out different strategies when taking notes so that you can find what suits you best.Note: Now you have read Text 4a, check the accuracy of your predictions in Ex .Task 4 Writing a summary The final stage of the process is to organise your notes and then write your summary. You will be able to pare your notes and summary with examples supplied by the teacher.。Growing greyJohn I. Clarke and Andrew CravenThe populationof the world is ageing. The proportion of elderly people in both developed and developing countries is growing. This article considers the statistics and some of the impacts of this demographic phenomenon. It is relevant to anyone studying population change.We live in an ageist society, in which people are discriminated against on the grounds of age. This is curious, because most countries in the world have ageing populations, with a growing proportion of old people who will have an increasing impact upon all aspects of polity, society and economy.1 Who are the old?There are no sharp thresholds separating the old and the very old (sometimes less harshly called elderly and very elderly) from the rest of the population. Internationally, the UN Population Division defines the old as those aged 60 and over (United Nations, 2005). In 2005 there were about 673 million old people according to this definition一10% of the world population In the developing world this was 8% of the population and in the developed world 20%. The rather low UN threshold of 60 makes sense in the developing world, as people have lower life expectancies there, but in the developed world as a whole those aged 60 and over already outnumber children aged 014.The widely cited data sheets of the Population Reference Bureau (Haute, 2005) use the higher threshold of 65 and over as a definition of old age. According to this, about 7% of the world population were old in 2005: only 5% of the developing world, but 15% of the developed world. In the UK we have tended, rather idiosyncratically, to define old people as those of pensionable age65 and over for men and 60 and over for women. This
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