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  3. The world is on the top of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before.【C1】_______

The world is on the top of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before.【C1】_______

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问题     The world is on the top of a staggering rise in the number of old people, and they will live longer than ever before.【C1】________the next 20 years the global population of those aged 65 or more will almost double, from 600m to 1.1 billion. The experience of the 20th century, when longer life【C2】________more years in retirement rather than more years at work, has persuaded many observers that this shift will lead to slower economic growth and【C3】________, while the swelling ranks of pensioners will smash government【C4】________.
    But the notion of a sharp division between the working young and the【C5】________old misses a new trend, the growing gap between the skilled and the unskilled. Employment rates are falling among younger unskilled people,【C6】________older skilled folk are working longer. The【C7】________is most extreme in America, where well-educated baby-boomers are【C8】________retirement while many less-skilled younger people have dropped out of the workforce.
    Policy is【C9】________responsible. Many European governments have abandoned policies that used to encourage people to retire early. Longer life, combined with the replacement of generous pension plans【C10】________meaner ones, means that even the better-off must work longer to have a【C11】________retirement. But the changing nature of work also plays a big role. Pay has risen sharply for the highly educated, and those people continue to【C12】________rich rewards into old age because these days the educated elderly are more productive than their【C13】________Technological change may well reinforce that shift: the skills that【C14】________computers, from management expertise to creativity, do not necessarily【C15】________with age.
    This trend will benefit not just【C16】________elderly people but also, in some ways, society as a whole. Growth will slow less dramatically than expected; government revenues will be in better【C17】________as high earners pay taxes for longer. At the other end of the social scale, however, things look【C18】________. Manual work gets harder as people get older. The rapid innovation has raised the incomes of the highly skilled while【C19】________those of the unskilled. The consequences, for individuals and society, are【C20】________.
【C12】
选项 A、reap
B、need
C、expect
D、value
答案A
解析 those people指代前一分句中the highly educated。前面指出他们的收入急剧增长，根据continue to的语义，可推断此分句应说明他们在进入老龄后会继续享有高收入。A项reap与rewards搭配后指“获得回报”，可指获得高收入。句子说明：受过高等教育的人因为创造更多的社会价值而获取更高的收入，哪怕进入老龄时也是如此。这是一种客观结果，而并非主观的B项need“需要”、C项expect“期望”或D项value“评价”。
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