問題詳情
四、閱讀測驗 In the late 1970s and early 1980s, the government advocated a “later, longer, fewer” lifestyle, encouragingpeople to marry later, have wider gaps between children and fewer children overall. It also set up the controversialone-child policy. These were attempts to curb population growth in order to help modernize the economy. Chinese women are having fewer children, but having a smaller generation following a boomgeneration—and longer life expectancies—means that by 2050, for every 100 people aged 20-64, there will be 45people aged over 65, compared with about 15 today. China’s fertility rate—the average number of children a woman has in their lifetime—is 1.6, which is lowerthan the rate in the UK and the US. The Chinese government believes the one-child policy curtailed population growth, and that it prevented 400million extra births. Yet a population expert’s findings suggest that China’s fertility would have declined at asimilar rate without the one-child policy and would continue to decline even if the policy was discarded. Oneexplanation could be that the policy caused anxiety among the population, which prompted many to have childrenat an earlier time. And there was a decline in age at first marriage and age at first childbearing in the 1980s. Since 2013, there has been a gradual relaxation of China’s family planning laws that already allowed minorityethnic families and rural couples whose firstborn was a girl to have more than one child. In 2015, China officiallyannounced that all couples are allowed to have two children to balance population development and address thechallenge of an aging society. But human rights groups said if China is serious about respecting human rights, thegovernment should immediately end such invasive and punitive controls over people’s decisions to plan familiesand have children.
【題組】21. According to the article, what does “longer” in the first line refer to?
(A) To have longer life expectancy.
(B) To wait a longer time to have another child.
(C) To eat healthy to enjoy longer life.
(D) To curb population growth for a longer time.
參考答案
答案：B
難度：適中0.560606
統計：A(12),B(37),C(3),D(14),E(0)