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23. All the following reasons for late retirement are mentioned EXCEPT:
A) As the financial system has been prospering, there has been a requirement for more employees.
B) Because of the increased price of medical service people have in work for earning more.
C) The law, enforcing workers to leave their job at a particular age was amended.
D) the limited amount of pension makes elderly people continue working.
24. According to the passage, which historical event in the US gave elderly workers permission to carry on working?
A) Changes to the Social Security Act in 1977. and 1983.
B) Raising the lull-benefit age to another two years.
C) The introduction of the Age Discrimination Act in 1914.
D) The development of the US economy after 1913.
25. The word "compulsory" is closest in meaning to...
A) obligatory B) optional C) essential D) extensive
26. A hut has inspired workers not to leave their job?
A) high price of health care
B) changes to pension laws
C) increase in the full-benefit age
D) increased demand for labour
Read the text Then Choose the correct answer for each question below (27-30).
Imagine what, it must, have been like to have sailed around the world in a small wooden ship, as Drake and his men did in 1577-1580. On a ship only some 35 meters long, it, can't have been easy for the 80 or so crew to live comfortably. Exploration was part of war and rivalry with other nations, so these voyages might involve attacks on other ships and towns, and had to make a profit. There were all the usual Dangers too. A ship could easily be destroyed by a storm or urn out of food or water, and the captain might have little idea of where the ship was or where it was going. Explorers might have many wrong decisions in an age when there were only basic maps and navigation equipment and in unknown parts of ocean where a ship could easily sail for weeks without reaching land. Very often places they thought they should have reached turned out to be much further on, or in a different direction. However, they can't have set off on such long voyages without some general idea of the places they could except to roach along the way. and as knowledge of navigation improved, voyages became more and more successful.