1、雅思（写作）模拟试卷 177及答案与解析 1 Some people think that the company should encourage the employees who are in high positions and over 55 years old to retire, in order to give opportunities to new generation. Do you agree or disagree? 2 In many countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing.
2、Does this trend have more positive or negative effects on the society? 雅思（写作）模拟试卷 177答案与解析 1 【正确答案】 Some people are of the opinion that the employees in the high executive positions should be encouraged to retire when they are over 55 years old. they claim that, by doing this, young people will be g
3、iven more opportunities. Others oppose this kind of mandatory retirement. Both sides seem to have their reasons. Young people are superior to the old in many ways. First, most young people have received formal education in university, where they acquire abundant knowledge and skills. Compared with y
4、oung people, old peoples knowledge is out-dated, which does not fit in the development of the current society. Second, young people are more open-minded than old people who have a tendency of conservation. Young people can adapt themselves to the changeable world more easily. Finally, the young are
5、energetic and vigorous. Old people react more slowly than young people who can always make quick judges and prompt decisions. Some people who examine this issue from another angle hold that although young people have some predominance they still cannot compete with the old people. First, young peopl
6、e lack adequate experience and skills to deal with sophisticated problems. Some young people, who are very radical when faced with trouble, have a lot of things to learn from old people and most high positions require rich experience and academic achievements. Second, age is not always a true indica
7、tor of ones capacities and thanks to the improvement in medical science, people enjoy a much longer life expectancy, so we should redefine the term “old age“. Finally, it would be more economical for the company to retain the old hands than to spend more time and money training new ones. In my opini
8、on, the company should not force the old people to retire to give way to the young. The practice is unfair to the old, hinders the social development and does harm to the young who gain the high positions easily. 2 【正确答案】 The world is getting older. You come across old people everywhere in restauran
9、ts, on airplanes, in hospitals and even in Disneyland! Things were quite different 20 years ago, when young people dominated the world. Is this change in demography good or bad for society? I would say it has more negative effects than positive ones. Doubtlessly, older people are much experienced in
10、 life, so to society, and particularly to the younger generation, they are a valuable treasure. This is because older people can give us constructive suggestions and can assist us in doing many different things, preventing us from making mistakes. So, seen from this perspective, an increasing propor
11、tion of older people in the population are not necessarily something bad. However, I would not be accurate to say that having an older population always benefits us. It also has negative effects on the society. First of all, the aging population is retiring from the working world. That means it does
12、 not offer society the labor it needs for its sustained economic growth. Japcn has actually been troubled by its aging labourers who are destined to be the pure wealth consumers. Japanese people are even encouraged by their government to give birth to more babies, not for themselves, but for the nat
13、ion! Secondly, rapid social development calls for more people with creative and innovative minds and generally speaking, these refer to young people. Electric bulbs and computers would never have come about without groups of young people who were not happy with the status quo and were bold enough to
14、 challenge established traditions. It is said more than 80% of the great inventions and literary works are created by people under 40 years old. In a word, while older people enlighten us with their rich experience, they use up more than what they produce. At the same time, they are more likely to follow rules docilely. Therefore, the demerits of an aged population far outweigh its merits.
