[填空题]The total number of employment in Britain is Over 21.4 million.

[填空题]The total number of employment in Britain is Over 21.4 million.

[单项选择]In Britain, disputes over a new law permitting the country’s public universities a tuition jump almost cost Prime Minister Tony Blair his job.
A. 首相托尼·布莱尔几乎丢掉工作，他使英国充满关于公立大学提高学费的争论，甚至还颁布了一项新法律。
B. 英国公立大学关于提高学费的争论及一项新法律差点让首相托尼·布莱尔丢失工作。
C. 英国首相托尼·布莱尔差点下台，主要是因为一项新法允许公立大学提高学费，这项法律还引起了争议。
D. 在英国，一项允许公立大学提高学费的新法律引起了争议，这差点让首相托尼·布莱尔下台。

[填空题]We have a chain of supermarkets all over Britain.

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[简答题]The total number of national holidays in China is stipulated by law. Yet people still argue about whether there should be "long holidays" or "short holidays" i.e. greater number of holidays concentrated around a great festival, or holidays scattered over a number of festivals. Which do you subscribe to, and why

[单项选择]While the total number of farmers engaged in agricultural production is barely half （　） it used to be in 1959, the size of the average farm has tripled.
A. that
B. what
C. which
D. how

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Workforce is defined as the total number of people who are available to work and earn incomes. The definition includes everyone who is employed or seeking paid employment, so it includes employers and the self-employed.
Although the size of the workforce depends a great deal on the size of the total population, there are several other influences which also affect it. The age distribution of the total population has a very marked effect on the available workforce. If the population has a high proportion of very young people or of those too old to work, then the available workforce would be lower than if there were an evenly spread age distribution. If the population grows rapidly from natural increase, i.e., the number of births greatly exceeds the number of deaths, then as the total population increases, the proportion in the workforce declines
Sometimes a population is described as aging, which means that the birth rate is either falling or growing very slowly, a
A. the factors that influence the workforce structure
B. the importance of workforce distribution to the economy
C. the relationship between age distribution and economy
D. the influence of population growth on the national economy