Tokyo Japan

　　Unlike an earthquake, a demographic disaster does not strike without warning. Japan’s population of 127millon is predicted to fall to 90million by 2050. By then, the ratio between working-age Japanese and children and the elderly will be one to one. What’s more, half the talent in Japan is female. Outside the kitchen, those talents are woefully underemployed, nearly half of Japanese university graduates are female but only 67% of these women have jobs,

　　Japanese women with degrees are much more likely than Americans to quit their jobs voluntarily, saying that the strongest push came from employers who do not value them. A startling 49% of highly educated Japanese women quit, because they feel their careers have stalled.

　　解析：本篇聽力主要針對日本地震過后會出現(xiàn)的一些問題進行 闡述。其中提到了人口結(jié)構(gòu)的變化以及日本女性的職業(yè)情況。本篇無明顯生詞，但通篇下來出現(xiàn)了五處數(shù)字信息，這種情況下考生需要注意在聽的過程中記筆記。此 外，也可以看出，聽力中的數(shù)字信息是每次高口考試的必考點，考生在平時準(zhǔn)備的時候尤其需要注意。