MBA考试

【单选题】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 (1) on younger people and on skills for employment is not (2) to meet the challenges of demographic (人口结构的) change, it says. Only 1% of the education budget is (3) spent on the oldest third of the population.
The (4) include the fact that most people can expect to spend a third of their lives in (5) , that there are now more people over 59 than under 16 and that 11.3 million people are (6) state pension age.
" (7) needs to continue throughout life. Our historic concentration of policy attention and resources (8) young people cannot meet the new (9) ," says the report’s author, Professor Stephen McNair.
The major (10) of our education budget is spent on people below the age of 25. (11) people are changing their jobs, (12) , partners and lifestyles more often than (13) , they need opportunities to learn at every age. (14) , some people are starting new careers in their 50s and later.
People need opportunities to make a" midlife review" to (15) to the later stages of employed life, and to plan for the transition (16) retirement, which may now happen. (17) at any point from 50 to over 90, says McNair.
And there should be more money (18) to support people in establishing a (19) of identity and finding constructive (20) for the "third age", the 20 or more years they will spend in healthy retired life.
A、ago B、ever
C、previously
D、formerly
网考网参考答案：B
网考网解析：
[解析] 习惯搭配。四个选项都有“之前”的意思，所以很难通过词义辨析选出正确答案。但与比较词than搭配时，应固定地使用ever，表示“比以前任何时候都……”，故B项为正确答案。previously意为“先前，以前”，formerly意为“从前，以前”，ago常与某一时间段搭配。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>