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单选题 What is the main topic of this passage?

A．The consequences of fatigue.
B．The reason why people need rest.
C．The dangers of fatigue.
D．Types of fatigue.

参考答案D

解析: 【定位】本题考查文章主旨，需要结合全文进行综合分析。
【解析】D.。文章第1句即全文的主题句：从根本上来说，疲劳分为三种：身体上的、由疾病引起的以及心理上的。由此可见，本文主要谈论了这三种疲劳。A.“疲劳的结果”，即疲劳的表现，与第1段意思不符，故排除；文章第2段提到，身体感到疲劳时，休息是最好的解决办法，B.与之意思相符，但并非整篇文章论述的中心，故排除C.文中未提及。

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单选题 Passage Two
Questions are based on the following passage.
A recent BBC documentary, The Town That Never Retired, sought to show the effects of increasing the state pension age by putting retirees back to work. Although the results were entertaining, they need not have bothered. Away from the cameras, unprecedented numbers of older people are staying in work. Since the start of the recession that began in 2008, the number of 16- to 24-year-olds in work has fallen by 597,000. Over the same period the number of workers over the age of 65 has increased by 240,000. The greying of the British workforce dates back to around 2001, since when the proportion of older people working has nearly doubled. But it has accelerated since the start of the recession.
There are several reasons why. Happily, people are living longer and healthier lives, which makes staying in work less daunting (使人畏惧的) than it was. Less happily, low interest rates, a stagnant(不景气的) stock market and the end of many defined-benefit (固定收益) pension schemes make it a financial necessity. And changing attitudes, spurred by rules against age discrimination, are making it easier than ever.
Most older workers are simply hanging on at the office: 63% of workers over state pension age have been with their employer for more than ten years. Over two-thirds of them work part time, mostly doing jobs that they once performed full-time. A big advantage is that they do not pay national insurance contributions - effectively a second income tax on younger workers.
According to Stephen McNair, director of the Centre for Research into the Older Workforce,this flexibility explains why older workers have not suffered so much in the slump. Instead of slashing the workforce, as in previous recessions, many firms have halted recruitment and cut working hours. At small businesses in particular, keeping on older workers is cheaper and less risky than training replacements. Over half of workers over state pension age work for businesses with fewer than 25 employees.
Christopher Nieper, who owns David Nieper, a women's wear manufacturer based in Derbyshire, prizes his semi-retired workers, who can be employed at short notice and do not need to work full time to survive. Retired machinists can fill in if there is a surge in orders; former sales advisers can work as part-time consultants. As his competitors have moved production abroad, depleting (使减少)the pool of trained labour, retaining older workers and their skills has become even more important.
There is scope for the older workforce to expand. Workers over the age of 50 who are made unemployed find it harder to pick up new jobs, which could mean that more oldsters want to work than are able to. That would be good. The Office for Budget Responsibility, the fiscal (财政的)watchdog, reported on July 12th that an aging, unproductive population is the biggest long-term threat to Britain's economic health.
Data from the OECD, a think-tank, shows that employment rates among workers approaching retirement age are split in Europe, with old workers hanging on best in the north. Government credit ratings follow a similar pattern. That Britain's aging workforce more closely resembles Germany's than Italy's could prove the country's salvation (拯救).
Which of the following can be inferred from The Town That Never Retired?

A．Its aim is to criticize the poor pension provision in the UK.
B．It received a lot of good comments from the audience.
C．What it intends to show is contrary to the reality.
D．It reflects the current trend of retirees coming back to work.

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单选题 According to the passage, "it" (Line 6, Para.2) refers to ___________.

A．a financial necessity
B．staying in work after retiring
C．age discrimination
D．the changing attitude

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单选题 According to Paragraph 3, which of the following is TRUE about the older workers in the UK?

A．Most of them rarely seek new types of jobs.
B．They do not have to pay national income tax.
C．Most of them are loyal to their former employers.
D．63% of them continue to work over the retirement age.

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