But even then there is no guarantee that their efforts will work. What is happening now is historically unprecedented. Ronald Lee, director of the Centre on the Economics and Demography of Ageing at the University of California, Berkeley, puts it briefly and clearly: We dont really know what population ageing will be like, because nobody has done it yet.

　　1. In its 1994 report, the World Bank argued that the current pension system in most countries could ______.

　　 not be sustained in the long term

　　 further accelerate the ageing process

　　 hardly halt the growth of population

　　 help tide over the current ageing crisis

　　2. What message is conveyed in books like Young vs Old?

　　 The generation gap is bound to narrow.

　　 Intergenerational conflicts will intensify.

　　 The younger generation will beat the old.

　　 Old people should give way to the young.

　　3. One reason why pension and health care reforms are slow in coming is that ______.

　　 nobody is willing to sacrifice their own interests to tackle the problem

　　 most people are against measures that will not bear fruit immediately

　　 the proposed reforms will affect too many peoples interests

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