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China to
end one-child policy and allow two
2 - Couples will now be allowed to have
two children, it said, citing a statement from the Communist Party.
3 - The controversial policy was
introduced nationally in 1979, to slow the population growth rate.
4 - It is estimated to have prevented
about 400 million births. However concerns at China's ageing population led to
pressure for change.
5 - Couples who violated the one-child
policy faced a variety of punishments, from fines and the loss of employment to
forced abortions.
6 - Over time, the policy has been relaxed
in some provinces, as demographers and sociologists raised concerns about
rising social costs and falling worker numbers.
7 - The decision to allow families to have
two children was designed "to improve the balanced development of
population'' and to deal with an aging population, according to the statement
from the Communist Party's Central Committee carried by the official Xinhua
News Agency (in Chinese) on Thursday.
8 - Currently about 30% of China's
population is over the age of 50. The total population of the country is around
1.36 billion.
9 - The Communist Party began formally
relaxing national rules two years ago, allowing couples in which at least one
of the pair is an only child to have a second child.
10 - What was China's one-child policy?
11 - Correspondents say that despite the
relaxation of the rules, many couples may opt to only have one child, as
one-child families have become the social norm.
12 - Critics say that even a two-child
policy will not boost the birth rate enough, the BBC's John Sudworth reports.
13 - And for those women who want more than
two children, now it will end the state's insistence on the right to control
their fertility, he adds.
14 - "As long as the quotas and
system of surveillance remains, women still do not enjoy reproductive
rights," Maya Wang of Human Rights Watch told AFP.
15 - I was born in 1979, the year the
one-child policy was implemented. And even then, I wasn't supposed to be born.
16 - In my parents' work unit, there were
also quotas for babies. By the time my mother announced her pregnancy, the
quotas were all used up for the year.
17 - But kind-hearted officials decided to
look the other way and allowed my birth. My would-be siblings were less lucky.
18 - As a result of the policy, my mother
had to endure two abortions. Even today, she talks about 'Number Two' and
'Number Three' and what they might have been like.
Adapted from: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-34665539.
Accessed: Oct. 29, 2015.
1) According to the text, the Communist
Party has decided to end the one-child policy in order to:
a) to give women the right of two
children.
b) to increase the number of workers
in the entire country.
c) to improve de balanced
development of population.
d) to increase the number of China’s
population.
2) According to the text, the relaxation
of the rules, two years ago, allowed to have a second child:
a) those couples in which one of the
members was an only child.
b) those couples in which booth of
the members were an only child.
c)those couples whose first baby was
a boy.
d) those couples whose the first
baby was a girl.
3) De acordo com o texto, os críticos dizem que a política de dois filhos:
a) não vai diminuir o bastante a taxa de mortalidade.
b) não vai aumentar o suficiente o índice de idosos.
c) não vai diminuir o bastante o número de anciãos.
d) não vai aumentar o suficiente a taxa de natalidade.
4) No trecho “As a result of the policy, my mother
had to endure two abortions”, parágrafo 18, o termo “result” poderia ser substituído, sem
alteração de sentido, por:
a) benefit
b) consequence
c) profit
d) award
5) De acordo com o texto, uma das punições para quem violasse a política do filho único era:
a) perda dos direitos de voto.
b) mudança de residência.
c) aborto forçado.
d) diminuição do salário.
Answers:
1
- C; 2 - A; 3 - D; 4 - B; 5 - D.
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