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The Fertility Bust A. Falling populations - the despair of state pension systems - are often regarded with calmness, even a secret satisfaction, by ordinary people. Europeans no longer need large families to gather the harvest or to look after parents. They have used their good fortune to have fewer children, thinking this will make their lives better. Much of Europe is too crowded as it is. Is this all that is going on? Germans have been agonising about recent European Union estimates suggesting that 30% of German women are, and will remain, childless. The number is a guess: Germany does not collect figures like this. Even if the share is 25%, as other surveys suggest, it is by far the highest in Europe. B. Germany is something of an oddity in this. In most countries with low fertility, young women have their first child late, and stop at one. In Germany, women with children often have two or three, but many have none at all. Germany is also odd in experiencing low fertility for such a long time. Europe is demographically polarised. Countries in the north and west saw fertility fall early, in the 1960s. Recently, they have seen it stabilise or rise back towards replacement level (i.e. 2.1 births per woman). Countries in the south and east, on the other hand, saw fertility rates fall much faster, more recently (often to below 1.3, a rate at which the population falls by half every 45 years). Germany combines both. Its fertility rate fell below 2 in 1971, However, it has stayed low and is still only just above 1.3. This challenges the notion that European fertility is likely to stabilise at tolerable levels. It raises questions about whether the low birth rates of Italy and Poland, say, really are, as some have argued, merely temporary. C. The list of explanations for why German fertility has not rebounded is long. Michael Teitelbaum, a demographer at the Sloan Foundation in New York ticks them off: poor childcare; unusually extended higher education; inflexible labour laws; high youth unemployment; and non-economic or cultural factors. One German writer, Gunter Grass, wrote a novel, “Headbirths”, in 1982, about Harm and Dorte Peters, “a model couple” who disport themselves on the beaches of Asia rather than invest time and trouble in bringing up a baby. “They keep a cat,” writes Mr. Grass, “and still have no child.” The novel is subtitled “The Germans Are Dying Out”. With the exception of this cultural Access https://ieltsonlinetests.com for more practices page 6 factor, none of these features is peculiar to Germany. If social and economic explanations account for persistent low fertility there, then they may well produce the same persistence elsewhere. D. The reason for hoping otherwise is that the initial decline in southern and eastern Europe was drastic, and may be reversible. In the Mediterranean, demographic decline was associated with freeing young women from the constraints of traditional Catholicism, which encouraged large families. In eastern Europe, it was associated with the collapse in living standards and the ending of pro-birth policies. In both regions, as such temporary factors fade, fertility rates might, in principle, be expected to rise. Indeed, they may already be stabilising in Italy and Spain. Germany tells you that reversing these trends can be hard. There, and elsewhere, fertility rates did not merely fall; they went below what people said they wanted. In 1979, Eurobarometer asked Europeans how many children they would like. Almost everywhere, the answer was two: the traditional two-child ideal persisted even when people were not delivering it. This may have reflected old habits of mind. Or people may really be having fewer children than they claim to want. E. A recent paper suggests how this might come about. If women postpone their first child past their mid-30s, it may be too late to have a second even if they want one (the average age of first births in most of Europe is now 30). If everyone does the same, one child becomes the norm: a one-child policy by example rather than coercion, as it were. If women wait to start a family until they are established at work, they may end up postponing children longer than they might otherwise have chosen. When birth rates began to fall in Europe, this was said to be a simple matter of choice. That was true, but it is possible that fertility may overshoot below what people might naturally have chosen. For many years, politicians have argued that southern Europe will catch up from its fertility decline because women, having postponed their first child, will quickly have a second and third. The overshoot theory suggests there may be only partial recuperation. Postponement could permanently lower fertility, not just redistribute it across time. F. There is a twist. If people have fewer children than they claim to want, how they see the family may change, too. Research by Tomas Sobotka of the Vienna Institute of Demography suggests that, after decades of low fertility, a quarter of young German men and a fifth of young women say they have no intention of having children and think that this is fine. When Eurobarometer repeated its poll about ideal family size in 2001, support for the two-child model had fallen everywhere. Parts of Europe, then, may be entering a new demographic trap. People restrict family size from choice. Social, economic, Access https://ieltsonlinetests.com for more practices page 7 and cultural factors then cause this natural fertility decline to overshoot. This changes expectations, to which people respond by having even fewer children. That does not necessarily mean that birth rates will fall even more: there may yet be some natural floor, but it could mean that recovery from very low fertility rates proves to be slow or even non-existent
第1轮对话迭代
User_SUN
你是负责教授雅思英语的陈教授: 现在, 协助我完成以下学习任务,给出中文提示,涉及原文字段使用英文: task1协助我完成段落大意理解 让我们一段一段来,你应当给出中文提示和需要理解的原文
Gemini_AI
好的,同学们。我们开始今天的阅读理解练习。这次的任务是理解这篇文章(The Fertility Bust)的段落大意。
我们先从A段开始。请阅读下面的原文:
Paragraph A:
Falling populations - the despair of state pension systems - are often regarded with calmness, even a secret satisfaction, by ordinary people. Europeans no longer need large families to gather the harvest or to look after parents. They have used their good fortune to have fewer children, thinking this will make their lives better. Much of Europe is too crowded as it is. Is this all that is going on? Germans have been agonising about recent European Union estimates suggesting that 30% of German women are, and will remain, childless. The number is a guess: Germany does not collect figures like this. Even if the share is 25%, as other surveys suggest, it is by far the highest in Europe.
学习提示 (Task 1): 请用你自己的话,用中文总结一下A段主要在讲什么?它提到了哪些欧洲人(特别是德国人)对生育率下降的看法或情况?
第2轮对话迭代
User_SUN
普通人对生育率下降的看法:欧洲人不再需要靠大家庭务农或赡养父母,认为少生孩子能让生活更美好,且觉得欧洲本就拥挤,所以对人口减少不排斥。 德国的特殊情况:欧盟估计 30% 的德国女性会一直无子女(德国无相关官方数据),即便按其他调查的 25% 计算,这一比例也远超欧洲其他国家,德国人正为此感到焦虑。 下一段无需给出原文,给详细单词表即可
Gemini_AI
你对A段的总结很到位,准确抓住了欧洲普遍看法与德国独特焦虑的对比。
好的,我们来看B段。根据你的要求,这里是B段的重点词汇表,请学习一下:
Paragraph B 重点词汇
英文单词
词性
中文释义
oddity
n.
奇怪之处;反常现象
fertility
n.
生育率
demographically
adv.
人口(统计)学上地
polarised
adj.
极化的;两极分化的
stabilise
v.
(使)稳定
replacement level
n.
(人口)更替水平(指维持人口数量不变的生育率,通常为2.1)
on the other hand
另一方面(用于对比)
combines
v.
结合;兼有
challenges (the notion)
v.
质疑(某个观念)
notion
n.
观念;看法
tolerable
adj.
可容忍的;过得去的
temporary
adj.
暂时的
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学习提示 (Task 1): 你学完这些单词后,请尝试预测一下:B段可能会讲什么内容?(比如,根据 oddity, polarised, combines 这些词,你觉得德国的生育率情况和欧洲其他地方比,有什么特点?)
第3轮对话迭代
User_SUN
预测 B 段会聚焦欧洲生育率的两极分化格局,重点说明德国生育率的 “反常之处”—— 它兼具欧洲不同地区的低生育率特征,进而质疑相关传统观念。 不输出B原文
Gemini_AI
你的预测非常准确!B段的核心确实是讲德国在欧洲生育率两极分化格局中的“反常之处”(oddity)—— 它的生育率很早就下降了(像北欧/西欧),但之后却一直保持在低水平(像南欧/东欧),从而对生育率会“稳定在可容忍水平”的传统观念(notion)提出了“挑战”(challenges)。
我们继续推进到C段。
Paragraph C 重点词汇
英文单词
词性
中文释义
rebound
v.
反弹;回升
demographer
n.
人口统计学家
ticks (them) off
v. phrase
逐一列举;勾选
childcare
n.
托儿服务
extended
adj.
延长的;过长的
inflexible
adj.
缺乏弹性的;僵化的
labour laws
n.
劳动法
peculiar to
adj. phrase
……所特有的
persistence
n.
持续;坚持
elsewhere
adv.
在别处
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学习提示 (Task 1): C段的词汇表里有很多关于“原因”的词(如 childcare, education, labour laws)。
根据这些词,你认为C段会主要探讨什么?这些词暗示了德国生育率未能“rebound”(反弹)的可能原因是什么?
第4轮对话迭代
User_SUN
托儿服务不足,难以解决家庭育儿的实际需求。 高等教育周期过长,推迟了年轻人的生育时间。 劳动法缺乏弹性,可能让女性难以平衡工作与生育。 这些因素并非德国独有,但共同导致其生育率持续处于低位。
Gemini_AI
你总结得非常到位。C段确实通过列举(ticks off)一系列社会经济因素——如托儿服务(childcare)、过长的高等教育(extended higher education)和僵化的劳动法(inflexible labour laws)——来解释为什么德国的生育率没能反弹(rebound)。
接下来我们看D段。
Paragraph D 重点词汇
英文单词
词性
中文释义
drastic
adj.
剧烈的;猛烈的
reversible
adj.
可逆转的;可挽回的
* constraints
n.
限制;约束
traditional
adj.
传统的
collapse
n. / v.
崩溃;倒塌(此处指生活水平的“骤降”)
pro-birth policies
n.
鼓励生育的政策
fade
v.
逐渐消失;褪去
in principle
理论上;原则上
ideal
n. / adj.
理想(的)
persisted
v.
持续存在
habits of mind
n. phrase
思维定势;惯性思维
claim
v.
声称;宣称
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学习提示 (Task 1): D段的词汇表出现了 reversible (可逆转的) 和 temporary factors (暂时性因素),但也提到了 ideal (理想) 与 claim (声称) 之间的差异。
你认为D段会主要讨论什么?它对于生育率下降是“可逆转的”这一观点持什么态度?
第5轮对话迭代
User_SUN
低生育率的暂时性诱因:南欧低生育率与传统天主教对女性的约束解除相关,东欧则源于生活水平骤降和鼓励生育政策终止,理论上这些因素消退后生育率可能回升。 逆转的现实阻碍:德国的案例证明低生育率很难扭转,且存在 “理想生育数” 与 “实际生育数” 的脱节 —— 欧洲人普遍声称理想是两个孩子,但实际生育数更低,未必能如预期实现回升。
Gemini_AI
你对D段的总结非常出色。你准确把握了“理论上的可逆性”(南欧/东欧的暂时因素)与“德国案例带来的现实阻碍”之间的对比,以及“理想生育数”和“实际生育数”的脱节。
D段结尾提到人们声称想要的(ideal)比实际拥有的(claim)多,E段紧接着就探讨了这种情况如何发生的机制。
好的,这是E段的重点词汇表:
Paragraph E 重点词汇
英文单词
词性
中文释义
postpone
v.
推迟;延后
mid-30s
n. phrase
30多岁(中期)
norm
n.
规范;常态
coercion
n.
强迫;强制
established at work
v. phrase
工作稳定;在工作中站稳脚跟
overshoot
v. / n.
(下降/超出)幅度过大;(此处指)降得过低
catch up
v. phrase
赶上
recuperation
n.
恢复;复原
partial
adj.
部分的
permanently
adv.
永久地
redistribute
v.
重新分配
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学习提示 (Task 1): E段的核心词汇是 postpone (推迟) 和 overshoot (降得过低)。
根据这个词汇表,你认为E段会提出一个什么理论来解释D段提到的“理想”与“现实”的差距?“推迟”生育具体是如何导致生育率“永久性地(permanently)”降低的?
第6轮对话迭代
User_SUN
年龄限制导致二胎难实现:女性把首次生育推迟到 30 多岁中期,即便想生二胎,也可能因年龄问题错过时机,实际只能生一胎。 形成 “一胎常态” 的社会规范:当所有人都推迟生育且多生一胎时,一胎就成了社会默认的规范,这种常态并非强制,而是通过普遍示例形成,进而固化生育选择。 工作稳定与生育推迟的恶性循环:女性为站稳工作脚跟才开始组建家庭,会不自觉地把生育推迟到远超原本计划的时间,导致生育机会不可逆减少。 生育率 “过度下降” 后难以完全恢复:推迟生育不会只是暂时改变生育时间分布,而是让生育率降得过低(overshoot),后续仅能部分恢复(partial recuperation),无法回到理想水平,最终造成永久性降低。
Gemini_AI
你对E段的理解非常深刻和准确!
你归纳的这四点——年龄限制、一胎常态、工作导致的过度推迟、以及“过度下降”(overshoot)理论——完美地解释了“推迟生育”是如何导致生育率永久性降低的。
E段解释了行为上的机制,F段则探讨了这种行为对人们观念的后续影响。
我们来看最后一段。
Paragraph F 重点词汇
英文单词
词性
中文释义
twist
n.
(意想不到的)转折;变化
intention
n.
意图;打算
(think that this is) fine
(认为这)没什么问题;可以接受
poll
n.
民意调查
trap
n.
陷阱
restrict
v.
限制
expectations
n.
预期;期望
respond
v.
回应;作出反应
floor
n.
底部;底线
recovery
n.
恢复;复苏
non-existent
adj.
不存在的
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学习提示 (Task 1): F段以一个 twist (转折) 开始。E段说人们生的比想的要少,F段则探讨了这种现象长期持续下去,会发生什么变化。
根据词汇表,你认为F段提出的“新的人口陷阱”(new demographic trap)是指什么?人们的“理想家庭规模”(ideal family size)发生了怎样的变化?
第7轮对话迭代
User_SUN
“新人口陷阱” 的逻辑闭环 第一步:人们最初因各种因素主动选择限制家庭规模(少生孩子)。 第二步:长期低生育率逐渐改变社会预期和生育观念,部分人开始认可 “不生育” 的选择(年轻人觉得不生孩子也没什么问题)。 第三步:观念变化又反过来让人们更倾向于少生或不生,形成难以打破的循环,即便生育率不会持续下跌,也难有明显复苏。 理想家庭规模的变化 传统认知里,欧洲人理想家庭规模是两个孩子,但 2001 年的民意调查显示,对两孩模型的支持率在各地均下降。 部分年轻人(德国四分之一年轻男性、五分之一年轻女性)明确表示无生育意图,且认为这是合理的,“少生 / 不生” 成为新的可接受选项。
Gemini_AI
你对F段的总结完全正确!
你清晰地勾勒出了这个“新人口陷阱”(new demographic trap)的逻辑闭环:行为(少生)-> 改变观念(不生也fine)-> 强化行为(更少生)。并且准确捕捉到了“理想家庭规模”本身也在发生变化,这正是F段的核心观点。
我们已经逐段完成了对文章(A-F)的大意理解。
接下来,你希望我们继续进行哪一项雅思学习任务?比如,我们可以尝试为我们刚刚讨论过的每一段匹配一个“段落标题”(List of Headings)吗?
第8轮对话迭代
User_SUN
给出整篇文章的词汇表
Gemini_AI
好的,这是一份整篇文章的重点词汇表,涵盖了A到F段。
《The Fertility Bust》全文重点词汇表
英文单词
词性
中文释义
despair
n.
绝望
pension
n.
养老金
agonise (agonize)
v.
(使)极度痛苦;挣扎
estimates
n.
估计;估算值
childless
adj.
没有孩子的
oddity
n.
奇怪之处;反常现象
fertility
n.
生育率
demographically
adv.
人口(统计)学上地
polarised (polarized)
adj.
极化的;两极分化的
stabilise (stabilize)
v.
(使)稳定
replacement level
n. phrase
(人口)更替水平(通常为2.1)
notion
n.
观念;看法
tolerable
adj.
可容忍的
temporary
adj.
暂时的
rebound
v.
反弹;回升
demographer
n.
人口统计学家
ticks (them) off
v. phrase
逐一列举;勾选
extended
adj.
延长的;过长的
inflexible
adj.
缺乏弹性的;僵化的
peculiar to
adj. phrase
……所特有的
persistence
n.
持续
drastic
adj.
剧烈的;猛烈的
reversible
adj.
可逆转的
constraints
n.
限制;约束
collapse
n. / v.
崩溃;骤降
pro-birth policies
n. phrase
鼓励生育的政策
fade
v.
逐渐消失
persisted
v.
持续存在
habits of mind
n. phrase
思维定势
postpone
v.
推迟;延后
norm
n.
规范;常态
coercion
n.
强迫;强制
overshoot
v. / n.
(下降/超出)幅度过大;降得过低
recuperation
n.
恢复;复原
partial
adj.
部分的
permanently
adv.
永久地
redistribute
v.
重新分配
twist
n.
(意想不到的)转折;变化
intention
n.
意图;打算
poll
n.
民意调查
trap
n.
陷阱
restrict
v.
限制
expectations
n.
预期;期望
floor
n.
底部;底线
recovery
n.
恢复;复苏
non-existent
adj.
不存在的
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这份词汇表对你掌握文章应该很有帮助。
接下来,我们就利用刚才对段落大意的理解和这份词汇表,来做下一个任务:段落标题配对(List of Headings),你觉得怎么样?
第9轮对话迭代
User_SUN
给出完整每段信息
Gemini_AI
这是一个很好的复习方法,让我们来一起整理并确认每一段的核心信息。
我们刚才已经逐段分析过了,这是一个很好的机会来巩固记忆。
你先来试着总结一下 A 段 的主要信息是什么?
你总结之后,我来帮你确认和完善,然后我们再继续 B 段,以此类推。最后我们就会得到一个完整的列表。
第10轮对话迭代
User_SUN
完整直接告诉我
Gemini_AI
好的,没问题。根据我们之前的讨论,这是对文章每一段核心信息的完整总结:
A 段:引出问题——德国的焦虑
- 内容:首先提出欧洲普通人对人口下降持平静甚至满意的态度(认为生活更好、欧洲太挤)。接着话锋一转,指出德国正为欧盟估测的极高女性无子女率(25%-30%)而“焦虑”(agonising),这个比例在欧洲是最高的。
B 段:分析德国的“反常”
- 内容:德国在人口学上是“反常的”(oddity)。欧洲呈两极分化(polarised):北/西欧生育率下降早,但已稳定回升;南/东欧下降晚,但降幅剧烈。德国则“兼具两者”(combines both):它下降得很早(1971年),但此后一直保持在极低水平 ولم “反弹”。这“挑战”(challenges)了生育率总会稳定在可接受水平的观念。
C 段:探讨德国低生育率的可能原因
- 内容:列举了(ticks off)一系列导致德国生育率未能“反弹”(rebound)的社会经济原因,如:托儿服务差(poor childcare)、高等教育时间过长(extended higher education)、劳动法僵化(inflexible labour laws)以及文化因素。并指出,这些因素并非德国“特有”(peculiar to),因此可能导致其他地方出现同样的“持续性”(persistence)低生育率。
D 段:对比南/东欧的“可逆性”与现实
- 内容:分析南欧/东欧的生育率骤降(drastic)可能只是“暂时的”(temporary),因为导致下降的因素(如摆脱传统束缚、经济崩溃)正在“消退”(fade),理论上(in principle)生育率有望回升。但D段也指出,人们的“理想”(ideal)生育数(两个孩子)与“实际”生育数(claim)存在脱节,现实可能并不乐观。
E 段:提出“过度下降” (Overshoot) 机制
- 内容:解释了D段中“理想与现实脱节”是如何发生的。核心原因是“推迟”(postpone)生育。当女性为了工作稳定(established at work)而推迟生育,就可能导致生育率“降得过低”(overshoot)。这种推迟是“永久性地”(permanently)降低了生育率,而不只是“重新分配”(redistribute)了生育时间,因为很多人可能因此(比如年龄原因)无法生育第二个孩子。
F 段:总结——“新的人口陷阱”
- 内容:这是文章的“转折”(twist)。长期的低生育率(E段的行为)反过来改变了人们的“观念和预期”(expectations)。民调(poll)显示,对两孩模式的支持率在下降。现在很多德国年轻人认为不生孩子也“没问题”(fine)。这就是“新的人口陷阱”(new demographic trap):行为改变观念,观念再固化行为,导致生育率的“恢复”(recovery)变得极为缓慢甚至“不存在”(non-existent)。
这个完整的概览是否让你对文章的整体论证思路更清晰了?
如果清楚了,我们现在可以利用这个总结,来练习下一个雅思任务:段落标题配对(List of Headings)。你觉得怎么样?