2014考研英语新题型密押模拟题（二）_大学英语写作

2014考研英语新题型密押模拟题（二）

　　[B]Asian governments have long taken the view that the superiority of their family life was one of their big advantages over the West. That confidence is no longer warranted. They need to wake up to the huge social changes happening in their countries and think about how to cope with the consequences.

　　[C]People there now marry even later than they do in the West. The mean age of marriage in the richest placesJapan, Taiwan, South Korea and Hong Konghas risen sharply in the past few decades, to reach 29-30 for women and 31-33 for men.

　　[D]Family law should give divorced women a more generous share of the couples assets. Governments should also legislate to get employers to offer both maternal and paternal leave, and provide or subsidise child care. If taking on such expenses helped promote family life, it might reduce the burden on the state of looking after the old.

　　[E]Over one-fifth of Taiwanese women in their late 30s are single; most will never marry. In some places, rates of non-marriage are especially striking: in Bangkok, 20% of 40-44-year old women are not married; in Tokyo, 21%; among university graduates of that age in Singapore, 27%.

　　[F]In the words of Lee Kuan Yew, former prime minister of Singapore and a keen advocate of Asian values, the Chinese family encouraged scholarship and hard work and thrift and deferment of present enjoyment for future gain.

　　[G]Japanese women, who typically work 40 hours a week in the office, then do, on average, another 30 hours of housework. Their husbands, on average, do three hours. And Asian women who give up work to look after children find it hard to return when the offspring are grown.