MBA考试

【单选题】Aging poses a serious challenge to OEC
D、(Organization ofEconomicCo-operation andDevelopment) countries, in particular, how to pay for future public pension liabilities.And early retirement places an (1) burden on pension financing. There is no easy solution, but (2) retirement could help.
Early retirement may seem like a worthy individual goal, but it is a socially (3) one, and makes the present public pension system difficult to sustain for long. The (4) reason is that more people are retiring early and living longer. That means more retirees depending on the (5) of those in work for their income. The (6) is worrying. In the next 50 years, low fertility rates and (7) life expectancy in OEC
D、countries will cause this old-age dependency rate to roughly double (8) size. Public pension payments, which afford 30% ～ 80% of total retirement incomes in OEC
D、countries, are (9) to rise, on average, by over three percentage points in GDP and by as much as eight percentage points in some countries. (10) is the pressure on pension funds that there is a danger of today’s workers not getting the pensions they expected or felt they (11) for.
Action is needed, (12) simply aiming to reduce the (13) (and cost) of public pensions, or trying to (14) the role of privately funded pensions within the system, though necessary steps, may be (15) to deal with the dependency challenge.After years of (16) early retirement schemes to avoid (17) and higher unemployment, many governments are now looking (18) persuading people to stay in work until they are older. Surely, the thinking goes, if we are healthier now and jobs are physically less (19) and unemployment is down, then perhaps the (20) rate should rise anew.

A、ultimate B、unattainable C、specific
D、expensive
网考网参考答案：D
网考网解析：
[解析] 形容词辨析。空格所在句子与前一分句结构对称，因此主语it指代前一句的主语early retirement，空格处形容词修饰的表语one指代前文的goal。由表示转折的连词but可知，两个分句是从一个角度分析“提早退休”作为个人和社会目标的两种相反的影响，即“对个人是值得的，但对社会则是不值得的”。此外，由下文可知，这种“不值得的”目标造成的后果是：使现有公共养老金系统难以持久。所以D项expensive“昂贵的，费钱的”符合文意，为正确答案。A项ultimate“最终的，根本的”，B项unattainable“无法实现的”，C项specific“明确的，特定的”均不正确。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>