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China has the second largest population in the world. That's a fact ______ everyone knows. The big population has already been a serious problem. To make matters ______, aging population in China is growing quite rapidly.
According to a study, the over-60 population in China will keep ______. Of those, about 118 million old people will live alone all by ______. And the number of people aged 80 or older will reach 29 million. From those numbers, we can see that China is really facing a serious ______ problem.
In order to provide its aging population with better public services, China has ______ a five-year plan on elder care. According to the plan, China will improve the social security system. The ______ has already taken measures to deal with the aging population problem.
The plan also calls for the public to take part ______ elder care. The government is also pleased to see more and more companies support the national elder care ______. The plan advises that each city should build at least one school for the old. It can ______ them an opportunity to receive a good education and have fun. The government also welcomes volunteers to join in public activities. According to the plan, over 12 percent of China's aging population will be volunteers for other people by next year.
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短文填空 主题/人与社会(人口) 词数/228 难度/★★★☆☆ 用时/4 mins China has recently changed its family planning policy to meet new social needs. The government in China has ______ ended its one-child per family policy and instead let families have three children. People knew the news after an important meeting in Beijing. It's reported that there are many ______ (reason) for the change in policy. One of them is to balance population development. China has ______ (large) population in the world. It ______ (carry) out the one-child policy in 1980. ______, in the countryside, if the first-born was a girl, the couple could have a second child. For example, some couples allowed (允许) only a small number of two-child families. In 2013, the Chinese government gave other couples a chance to have two children. Families could have two if one parent was an only child. However, too many young people in the cities weren't ______ (interest) in having a second child any longer. At the end of 2021, China ______ (have) a population of 1.41 billion people. A total of 800 million of them were employed (雇用). With the three-child policy, ______ increase in births will change the labor shortage. To increase birth rates, the government is taking ______ (measure) and improving public services like education and health.