The Aging Population
Essay by Jeenn Lee Hsieh
雅思审题--高龄人口
分秒必争--找关键字
谢振礼老师原创范文
》写作考试的游戏就是【有问必答】。回答议论文的考题都不容易。宁可说这一题比另外一题更为困难，不可说哪一题比这一题更为容易。
首先谈审题的困难。有时候困难在于试题复杂（问得太多），因此考生必须被动地完整答题--【面面俱到】。有时候更困难的是看来简单的问题（问得太少），因此考生必须主动地完整答题--【不知所措】。其实，既然是【有问必答】，所以问得多，【关键字】也当然多，因此考生也知道问什么就答什么，于是内容好像顺题成章。如果试题问得少，也就是【关键字】少，考生还得更伤脑筋地创造内容，几乎接近无中生有。
无论试题问得多或问得少，考生审题的动作必须求快，但也不能快得连题目到底问什么都没有搞清楚。考前自行锻炼审题，养成习惯：习惯成自然。分秒必争，审题时千万不要像猫头鹰讲课一样【婆婆妈妈】的方式分析。雅思大作文顶多只可用40分钟，所以速战速决，不必啰啰嗦嗦。全靠平日多做练习，倒是才会省事少烦恼。
猫头鹰提出审题第一道模拟题：‘高龄人口影响’。瞧瞧看！【关键字】一大堆，所以考生应该比较有话说，也不怕缺乏内容。所谓‘风卷大脑（brainstorm）’---非但关注【关键字】而生产主题，还得排除无关的一切。【有问必答】等于是说‘没有问的就不要回答’。真的答不出来，就干脆反问考官。只要造句灵，论证也一定灵。偶尔提出疑问，也等于靠谱答题。
按照写作的牌理出牌，所有的【关键字】都应该在答题的文章里至少出现一次。假设安排出现多次，最好是换一换同义词或同义片语，如此才能增加全文语言多样的情趣。
》立刻搞出文章‘高龄人口对于青年人的影响’主题，引出论证内容，组织【起承转合】的结构。心图如下：
起 高龄影响=社会影响+经济影响
承 社会影响
转 经济影响
合 社会影响+经济影响=高龄影响
》审题》题外指示
You should spend about 40 minutes on this task.
Write about the following topic:
A--真题还原>"The aging population of more developed countries are going to cause social and economic problems for society in the future, especially for the younger generation."
B--找关键字>"The aging population 【高龄人口】 of more developed countries 【先进国家】 are going to cause【造成】 social and economic problems【社会+经济问题】 for society 【社会=国家】 in the future【未来】, especially 【特别是针对】 for the younger generation.【年轻人一代】"
C--中文大意>在比较先进的国家，【高龄人口】的现象将会在【未来】对于【社会+国家】【造成】【社会+经济问题】，其影响【特别是针对】【年轻人一代】。
审题》任务指示
1. To what extent do you agree or disagree with this statement?
2. Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant examples from your knowledge or experience.
3. Write at least 250 words.
》答题--千样考生应试, 千种答题方式。下一篇实验范文是仿谢振礼老师的真题范文（2011-10-08）改写，稍微角度不同，但仍然采用踢皮球的答题方式：变相提出疑问（？？？）来回答‘高龄’问题。
实验范文：
The aging population is going to become a major concern particularly in more developed countries, but this should not be viewed as something threatening to society. It is a blessing for any individual to live a long and healthy life, only that it could indicate that the responsibilities of caring for the elderly in the future may partly fall on the younger generation. The questions refer especially to how the younger generation could provide answers that are able to move society forward, taking into account a number of social and economic effects on the nation as a whole.
As the proportion of older people is steadily increasing, there are doubts over changes regarding the structure of a modern society. A possible change may the distribution of years of expected lifespan on the social scale, now that the family planning program is in fashion. Then, what will this dramatic shift mean for social services, such as health caring and pension on retirement? Overall effects, however, are not clear enough; for instance, how older people's prolonged lives are to be arranged in the social context? At this point, it is interesting to know how today's younger generation would re-think their roles in society if they might live 100 or more and be in good shape? And should working people in society continue to be retired as usual at 60 (for women) and 65 (for men)?
Economy-wise, questions also abound. To begin with, what does it mean to a society in which half of the population is aged over 60 and could partially remain in active workforce? This being the case, would people still decide to dedicate their first two decades only to education, the next four decades exclusively to career and parenting, and the last 40 years solely to leisure, awaiting eventual death at 100 or so? So, it is up to the younger generation to make economic sense of people living longer in the future, seeing the aging population less as a burden than a bonus. In other words, if older people could keep working for more years, gains in people's lifespan should not necessarily cause economic losses to society. Neither should possible costs of public health measures, disease preventions, improved living conditions and better medical interventions be considered as a 'waste of money'.
Inevitably, the phenomenon of the aging population will become a new reality--socially as well as economically. Both generations, the younger and the older, could somehow be expected to work together side by side and all members of society should in diverse ways contribute to the well-being of the whole country. Besides, on second thought, who is afraid of the ′moral' responsibility for the aging population? (Essay created by Jeenn Lee Hsieh 谢振礼老师, essay3663@hotmail.com )
真题联想>In may countries, the proportion of older people is steadily increasing. Does this have more positive or negative effects on the society? [中国考区 2011-10-08]
