大学英语六级综合-阅读(六)
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Passage 6
The Pensions Regulator has warned employers not to cook up plans to dump their pension schemes. Companies have been warned they may be breaking the law if they transfer their schemes to new employers without meeting their financial obligations.
The Regulator says it has en a number of plans to do this without making sure the pension scheme is properly funded. Pension scheme trustees (托管人) have been told to make sure employers do not get away with it. The Regulator's Chief Executive Tony Hobman said, "We are starting to e propod corporate transactions involving schemes where the primary intent behind the transaction is for the employer to abandon the scheme."在线英文翻译中文>职称英语成绩查询
酒店会计 "We do not consider that abandonment of a scheme by its employers is usually likely to b
e in the best interests of scheme members," he added.
He told trustees that they should apply an "extremely high level of scrutiny(详细 审查)" if any such plan came their way. What the Regulator is worried about are attempts to transfer a pension scheme to a new, nominal employer which in reality does not have the finances to properly support the pension scheme it is taking on.
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If the scheme later runs into trouble the new employer will be in no position to avoid it.
A spokesman for the Regulator said that so far it had en fewer than five examples of employers who had suggested abandoning their schemes this way. But the fact that such a public warning is being made is a clear indication of the dangers of what might be an emerging trend.
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Section 25 of the Pensions Act 1995 says that if an employer capable of meeting financial obligations wishes to stop running a scheme altogether, then it must pay the cost of transferring it, fully funded, to an **pany to guarantee that accrued (逐渐增加的) pensions can always be paid.
This would always be extremely expensive, even for a scheme with a surplus, becau the **pany would charge a large amount of money, bad on the assumption that the pension scheme's asts would be invested largely in bonds, plus a margin for its own profit on top. However, earlier this year the Regulator gave its blessing to a plan apparently similar to the one which it is now warning against. The Regulator has refud to explain exactly why it took this decision.
1. On the issue of transferring schemes to new employers, what is the conquence if **panies fail to meet their financial obligations?
2. By saying "make sure employers do not get away with it"(Line 3, Para. 2), what does the Pensions Regulator imply?
3. According to Tony Hobman, the employers' abandonment of a scheme is often not considered ______.
4. According to the passage, the Regulator worries that the scheme may later run into trouble if the new employer could not ______.
5. If an employer wants to stop running a scheme wholly, it must pay the cost of transferring it to ______ to make sure accrued pensions can always be paid.
Passage 7
Remember when kids ud to just go out and play, and grown-ups spent evenings sharing stories on the front porch? When the outdoors didn't compete with video games, and "stranger danger" wasn't such a grave concern for parents?
At some point, we all emed to decide that letting children tear down the street on a dirt bike without a helmet didn't em like such a good idea anymore. That's smart. But we also started to lock the gate and move our fun from the front yard to the backyard (or the TV room). We stopped meeting our neighbors; we became less friendly and more suspicious.
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There's nothing more important than protecting your family, but isolation doesn't equal protection. Connecting with your neighbors not only lets you know the personalities that s
urround you, it also provides you with surprisingly positive and helpful resources in times of need.
So here's your task: make a map of your neighborhood (or better yet, print one out! GoogleMaps can provide an aerial photo of most U.S. neighborhoods and all the hous in it) and "fill it out". Can you write down the names of the occupants of every houhold, including children, pets, and parents? See how many you can do, and then take a walk through the neighborhood and meet people. Find out who has children at the same school as yours or which homes have adults who stay at home all day. Learn who is the friendliest and who is lonely and in need of a neighborly hand. You may even discover who has a magic touch at gardening, or a great movie or music collection, or the best "crisis" kitchen (just in ca you need a cup of sugar, a splash of olive oil, or a mug of freshly imported darkroast Costa Rican coffee ).
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