北師大版高中英語模塊8--Unit 24 warm-up2

[00:01.07]Not everybody has benefited though [00:03.46]and there are much greater inequalities [00:05.59]than twenty years ago. [00:06.87]The top 20% are much richer- [00:09.59]they now have 46% for the nation's wealth [00:12.08]compared with around 35% in 1981. [00:15.70]The bottom 20% of society society are now [00:18.28]relatively much poorer and their share of the [00:20.74]nation's wealth has declined from 10% to 6%. [00:25.24]Problems like begging and homelessness [00:27.57]are on the increase. [00:29.69]Life expectancy has gone up steadily. [00:31.85]In 1981, British men could expect to live [00:34.54]around 70 years and British women [00:36.58]on average 75 years. [00:38.68]Now men live 74 years and women 79. [00:43.28]Over the last twenty years, [00:45.02]unemployment has fluctuated [00:46.60]but has gone down recently. [00:49.19]It went up form around 1.7 million in 1981 [00:52.54]to 2.1 million in 1989 only to fall beneath [00:57.23]a million in the spring of 2001. [01:00.08]However, we work much longer hours than before, [01:03.01]in fact the longest in Europe. [01:06.37]There are many more women working than before- [01:08.48]nearly 72% compared with 57% in 1981, [01:12.60]the highest figure in Europe. [01:14.43]However, on average women still only earn [01:17.63]80% of that earned by men. [01:19.58]

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