单项选择题
Read the following passage and answer the questions listed below. Write your answers on the Answer Sheet.(10 points) Japan is the biggest waster of women. Though the proportion of its women in the labor force is rising rapidly, it still has the industrial world’s deepest "M" shaped graph of female labor-force participation—the proportion rises to 70% by the age of 25, but then fall falls to 50% as women are forced to quit when they get married, rising again only after the age of 35. Though some Japanese firms are catching on to women’s potential, and many are luring women as part-time factory workers, most have so far paid more attention to gray-haired males. Older people should be ideal targets for corporate recruiters everywhere. They are less likely to miss work, more polite to customers, and more loyal than their younger counterparts. In practice though, surely all they want to do is retire. The average age at which American men retire has declined from 65 in 1963 to 62 today and seems set to decline further. The few companies that are trying to halt that trend are an unconventional minority. On the Conference Board’s reckoning, 62% of American companies offer early retirement plans and only 4% offer inducements to delay retirement. That will change as American companies weigh the difficulties of recruiting new workers against the advantages of retaining old hands. Varian, a Silicon Valley company engaged in high-tech wizardry, is pioneering the way. Its phased-retirement plan permits employees who are 55 or ode to work 20-32 hours a week for as long as they and the company wish. Retired people in America are allowed to work for 1,000 hours a year without affecting their pension and health benefits. Japan’s old people are, you guessed it, workaholics: most big firms have moved their retirement ages from 55 to 60 in recent years, to please their workers as well as to relieve the labour shortage. But there is a quid pro quo: many firms have adjusted their seniority stems so that the highest wages are paid at around 45 rather than just before retirement, in order to hold down labor costs. More than 60% of Japanese men over 55 are still working, compared with 40% in America. And Japanese women lead the world in one respect, at least: at 30%, their labor participation rate over the age of 55 is industrial world’s highest. European companies are also waking up to the potential of hiring older workers. In the first six months of 1989 a British supermarket chain, Tesco, recruited around 1,500 people in their 50s and 60s with a "Life Begins at 55" campaign. At a recent conference in West Germany on the country’s graying society, sponsored by BDI, the employers’ confederation, two-thirds of the companies said they employed old-age pensioners part-time, and 75% said they expect to lure someone over 50 in the next year. With the youngest pensionable age in Europe, Germany has a huge reservoir of trained labor. All the signs are that it will need it.According to the passage, the Japanese women have the following work participation pattern:
A．More newly married women work than girls, but fewer than women over 35
B．Equal proportion of girls and married women over 35 go to work, but fewer than newly married women
C．Far more girls work than newly married women, but more women return to work when they are over 35
D．Fewer newly married women keep working than girls, an even fewer women go to work when they are over 35
