【正确答案】Topic 1: Retirement
Tips, Words and Expressions
A breakthrough needs to be made on retirement age to better realize equality between men and women. / The negative growth of working population will become worse, which suggests a longer work time for women. / shorten the retirement age gap between male and female / the average life expectancy of Chinese people has risen by more than 20 years since the founding of the People's Republic of China, while their retirement age remains no change for more than 50 years. According to law in China, a man retires at 60, and women workers at 50. In the 1950s, women had to take care of more children than now on average. Playing an important role in family life, women were permitted to retire five years earlier than men at that time. But situation has changed greatly nowadays. Women are freed from the household chore and they have the capacity of working and earning to support their family. / Women outlive men by 3 years on average.
Topic 2: Healthcare
Tips, Words and Expressions
Make great effort to develop residential care system / build more nursing home places at community level / Appropriate agencies, such as governments and private health insurers, need to provide sufficient funding to support the level of professional care required. / promote individual responsibility for health
Topic 3: Care
Tips, Words and Expressions
The pros
"sandwich generation" -- they have to support their parents as well as raise their children, at the same time they are expected to work hard to advance their career. / Most city-dwellers are double-income families due to the increasing life expenditure in urban cities. It is highly unlikely for them to quit their work and take care of their elderly parents at home. / Older people can find others with common ideas and hobbies in nursing home / improved condition of retirement homes
The cons
sense of being abandoned by their families / causing mental problems / conventional idea / feel awkward to face relatives and friends