Wealth Gap
inequality
Amid a widening wealth gap between rich and poor, a new survey has found that 96 percent of the public said they feel resentful toward the rich.
面对不断加大的差距，最新相关调查显示，有96%的受访者承认自己有仇富心理。
文中的wealth gap就是指“差距”，这已成为社会中的hot-button issue（敏感问题）。Wealth gap的不断扩大也激起了人们的resentment against the rich（仇富心理）。此次调查涵盖了十个不同的social groups（社会群体），包括public servants（公务员）以及self-employed（自由职业者）在内。
不同代际的人们会产生generation gap（代沟），不同性别的人群会产生gender gap（性别差异）。金融危机爆发后，各国央行更加关注foreign exchange gap（外汇缺口）和savings gap（储蓄缺口）。
Speaking task:
How to narrow/bridge the wealth gap?
Useful expressions
to raise welfare and social security
increasing their minimum monthly wage
an increasing trend
restructure its national income distributions/the primary distribution
to help create a more stable society
more employment opportunities should be created for low-income citizens.
make out policies to encourage the development of the service industry which could provide more jobs and constantly raise minimum wage
to increase the amount of middle-income citizens so as to make the middle class stronger,
