GRE阅读练习：德国应对人口老龄化采取措施.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习：德国应对人口老龄化采取措施 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习：德国应对人口老龄化采取措施 GRE考试精品课程训练  The government is reversing some of its predecessors sensible pension reforms  政府正在颠覆之前明智的抚恤金改革政策  AS THE country with the European Unions fastest-ageing population, Germany has repeatedly tweaked its pension system to avert a slow-motion demographic disaster. The biggest reform came during Angela Merkels first term as chancellor. Then, as now, her centre-right Christian Democrats were yoked with the centre-left Social Democrats in a “grand coalition”. In2007 the coalition decided that the normal retirement age should gradually rise from 65 to 67.  作为欧盟人口老龄化最快的国家，德国一再调整养老金体系以避免人口增长缓慢带来的人口灾难。最 大的改革是在安吉拉·默克尔第 一次担任总理期间。而现在，她的中右倾基社党与中左倾社民党联手组成“大联盟”。在2007年联盟决定退休标准年龄应该逐步由65提升到67岁。  Mrs. Merkel has since preached similar demographic and economic sanity to most of her EU partners, criticizing France in particular for straying off the right path. So it comes as something of a shock that Mrs. Merkel, now in her third term and running another grand coalition, is reversing course. On the campaigntrail for last Septembers election, she promised to raise pensions for older mothers. The Social Democrats countered with promises to let certain workers retire at 63 instead of 65 (not to mention 67). As coalition partners, they will do both at once.  默克尔自此便一直向她的大多欧盟伙伴们鼓吹类似人口和经济健康发展的体系，同时特别批评法国偏离了正确的道路。所以默克尔现如今正处于第三个任期中，又在组织另一个大联盟，并且完全颠覆了之前的道路，这多多少少让人感到震惊。在去年九月选举的竞选游说中，她承诺会提高高龄产妇的抚恤金。社民党立刻还击承诺让一些工人在63岁退休而非65岁(期间并未提到67岁)。如今作为联盟伙伴，他们想两项都立时进行。  It falls to Andrea Nahles, the labor minister and a Social Democrat who likes to wave the banner of “social justice”, to push the pension package through parliament by the summer so that it can take effect on July 1st. A previous reform let women with children born after 1992 treat three of their stay-at-home maternity years as if they had worked and paid full pension contributions. The new “mother