A new report said middle class workers could still be working (1)    they are at the a

A new report said middle class workers could still be working (1)    they are at the age of 70, to help out their grown up children.

Middle class workers (2)   (age) 50 and above are being forced to delay their retirement, with many blaming their children, a report revealed yesterday.

To many middle class workers, (3)    bothered them from work couldn’t compare with the possibility that might postpone their retirement date by around five years.

It is not just the rising cost of living that i8 causing the delay. Many pointed to the fact that they are constantly having to provide for their grown-up children at an age (4)   they assumed they should be financially independent.

Actually, one in five middle class workers (5)    keep working in order to support their children. Many workers struggled all along to the retirement date, only (6)    (realize) that they had to switch to a part-time working pattern, also called semi-retirement. Rarely(7)          people hear of the concept of semi-retirement in the past but now semi-retirement has become the routine among wealthier people in Meir 50s and 60s, regarded as (8)    sign of the country’s on-going worsening economy.

答案

  1. Even if   2.aged  3.whatever  4.when

4.     must    6.to realize  7.did    8.a

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