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Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, accordi

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问题     Older people must be given more chances to learn if they are to contribute to society rather than be a financial burden, according to a new study on population published recently.
    The current approach which【C1】______on younger people and on skills for employment not 【C2】______ to meet the challenges of demographic change, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is 【C3】______ spent on the oldest third of the population.
    The 【C4】______include the fact that most people can expect to spend a third of their lives in 【C5】______, that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and that 11.3 million people are【C6】______state pension age.
    " 【C7】______needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources【C8】______young people cannot meet the new【C9】______," says the report’ s author, Professor Stephen McNair.
    The major【C10】______of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. 【C11】______ people are changing their jobs, 【C12】______, partners and lifestyles more often than【C13】______, they need opportunities to learn at every age. 【C14】______some people are starting new careers in their 50s and later.
    People need opportunities to make a "midlife review" to【C15】______to the later stages of employed life, and to plan for the transition【C16】______retirement which may now happen 【C17】______at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair.
    And there should be more money【C18】______to support people in establishing a【C19】______of identity and finding constructive【C20】______for the "third age", the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.
【C20】
选项 A、ranks
B、assets
C、ideals
D、roles
答案D
解析 考查名词辨析。空格处要求填入名词“帮助人们建立认同感以及找到‘第三年龄’里的建设性______”，前面提到“self identity”，空格处和前文有相似意义，roles“角色”和identity意思相近，故选D．roles。rank意为“排名”；assert意为“资产”；ideal意为“理想”，均不合题意。
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