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智课网TOEFL备考资料托福阅读备考资料之经济学人 摘要： 本文主要是为大家介绍一些有关托福阅读的备考资料——经济学人，相信大家一定都不陌生，托福阅读的真题来源于ETS官网题库，但是其中的不少真题来源于新闻、杂志、网站等等不同方面，其中经济学人就是需要我们重点关注的内容，托福阅读的不少真题都是摘自于经济学人。 托福 阅读备考资料之经济学人部分内容鉴赏： This article looks at the sharp rise in young Chinese happy to live by themselves; the next at old people less happy to do so 越来越多的中国年轻人喜欢独居，而老年人对此比较郁闷 Aug 29th 2015 | BEIJING | From the print edition 译者说： 中国有句古话叫怕什么来什么，意思就是我们越不希望什么事儿发生，它很有可能就越要发生，装逼一点儿来说就是我们越想抓住什么，到头来可能什么也抓不住，以始皇之英明，大体不会想到死后与臭鱼为伍吧;以老朱之神武，貌似也没料到，尸骨未寒之时，儿子跟孙子已经开始争家产了。现在也是一样，国内的孩子大都从小就活在父母的格子里，父母企图把他们的条条框框以爱的名义强加到我们身上，殊不知这也是一种绑架，结果往往适得其反：你让我结婚?我就单身给你看;你不让我出国?我非要去最好的学校。何必呢?人生苦短，父母跟孩子都需要即时享乐，父母需要清净之乐，孩子需要自由之乐，所以就 let it be 吧。 IN HER tiny flat, which she shares with two cats and a flock of porcelain owls, Chi Yingying describes her parents as wanting to be the controlling shareholders in her life. Even when she was in her early 20s, her mother raged at her for being unmarried. At 28 Ms Chi took “the most courageous decision of my life” and moved into her own home. Now 33, she relishes the privacy—at a price: her monthly rent of 4,000 yuan ($625) swallows nearly half her salary. 迟英英(音)和两只猫以及一群陶瓷猫头鹰一起挤在一间小公寓里。谈到父母的时候，她总觉得他们想成为自己生活的控股人。甚至她20出头的时候，她妈妈就因为她不结婚吼她。28岁的时候，她做了一生中最勇敢的决定，搬进了自己的家。现在她33岁了，特别享受自己的空间，即使以每个月拿出一半工资付房租为代价。 In many countries leaving the family home well before marriage is a rite of passage. But in China choosing to live alone and unmarried as Ms Chi has done is eccentric verging on taboo. Chinese culture attaches a particularly high value to the idea that families should live together. Yet ever more people are living alone. 在许多国家，婚前很早就离家是一种风俗。但是中国像迟小姐一样一个人住不结婚的人是另类的，基本是禁忌的。中国的文化特别强调家人应该住在一起，然而越来越多的人选择独居。 In the decade to 2010 the number of single-person households doubled. Today over 58m Chinese live by themselves, according to census data, a bigger number of one-person homes than in America, Britain and France combined. Solo dwellers make up 14% of all households. That is still low compared with rates fo