对于大多数城镇家庭来说，住房、子女教育、医疗目前已成为家庭负担中的最主要部分，占据了他们收入的大部分。在教育、医疗和养老领域进行市场化改革的同时，中国对国民的社会保障水平严重滞后已是不争的事实。（选自人民日报社《市场报》， 2005年11月7日）
【正确答案】：As for most urban families, housing, children’s education and medical care have currently become their heaviest burdens, accounting for a major part of their income. While China is carrying out a marketized reform in the fields of education, medical care and old-age support, an irrefutable fact is that the standard of China’s social security for the people is seriously lagging behind.
