Question

Вставьте подходящее по смыслу слово (a-j) в пропуски предложений (1-10) в тексте:

a) developed f) employees
b) reason g) training
c) workers h) staff
d) retirement i) generation
e) losing j) unemployment

In France the (1) ……….. age is 60, not 65 as in most (2) ………… countries. The main (3) …………… is that in the 1980s, when there was high (4) ………………., the government promoted early retirement. That entrenched the idea that older (5) ………………. were less productive. Now companies are worried about (6) ……………… their most skilled workers, especially as the baby-boom (7) …………… nears retirement. Areva, a nuclear-power group, recently launched a scheme to address the needs of older (8) ……………, and plans to use about 100 retired people a year through Experconnect. Areva stopped (9) ……….. engineers, so that much of its expertise lies with its (10) ………… .

Answer 1

1D
2A
3B
4J
5C
6E
7I
8F
9G
10H