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Ethnic Tensions in Belgium Belgium has given the world Audrey Hepburn,Rene Magritte(surrealist artist),the saxophone(萨克斯管)an

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问题                         Ethnic Tensions in Belgium
    Belgium has given the world Audrey Hepburn,Rene Magritte(surrealist artist),the saxophone(萨克斯管)and deep-fried potato chips that are somehow called French.
    But the story behind this flat, twice-Beijing-size country is of a bad marriage between two nationalities living together that cannot stand each other. With no new government, more than a hundred days after a general election, rumors run wild that the country is about to disappear.
    " We are two different nations, an artificial state. With nothing in common except a king, chocolate and beer" ,said Filip Dewinter, the leader of the Flemish Bloc, the extreme-right Flemish party.
    Radical Flemish separatists like Mr. Dewinter want to divide the country horizontally along ethnic and economic lines: to the north, Flanders—where Dutch(known locally as Flemish)is spoken and money is increasingly made;to the south, French-speaking Wallonia, where today old factories dominate the landscape.
    The area of present-day Belgium passed to the French in the 18th century. Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815,Belgium was given to the kingdom of the Netherlands, from which it gained independence as a separate kingdom in 1830.
    Since then, it has struggled for cohesion(结合). Anyone who has spoken French in a Flemish city quickly gets a sense of the mutual hostility that is part of daily life there.
    But there are reasons Belgium is likely to stay together, at least in the short term.
    The economies of the two regions are tightly linked, and separation would be a financial nightmare.
    But there is also deep resentment in Flanders that its much healthier economy must subsidize(补贴)the south,where unemployment is double that of the north. French speakers in the south, meanwhile,favor the status quo(现状).
    Belgium has made it through previous threats of division. Although some political analysts believe this one is different, there is no panic just now.
    "We must not worry too much," said Baudouin Bruggeman, a 55-year-old school-teacher. "Belgium has survived on compromise since 1930. You have to remember that this is Magritte’ s country, the country of surrealism. Anything can happen. "
What does this passage mainly talk about?
选项 A、Surrealist artists.
B、Belgium’ s economy.
C、Cultural clashes in Belgium.
D、Music in Belgium.
答案C
解析 本文主要介绍了比利时民族关系日益紧张。北部讲荷兰语的弗兰德斯地区是工业区，经济发展快。而南部讲法语的瓦隆尼亚区是老工业区。这两个地区的人们认为彼此间少有共同之处，但是一些人认为不必过于担心国家会因此分裂，因为南北地区的经济是互相联系的，而且比利时自1930年以来也一直保持着国家的统一。全文都是围绕两个民族间的文化冲突导致的关系紧张展开叙述的，故选C“比利时的文化冲突”。
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