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  3. A Through political dialogue and confidence building, no tension has escalated into armed confrontation among ASEAN (Associatio

A Through political dialogue and confidence building, no tension has escalated into armed confrontation among ASEAN (Associatio

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问题     A  Through political dialogue and confidence building, no tension has escalated into armed confrontation among ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) member countries since its establishment more than three decades ago. To build on what has been constructed over the years in the field of political and security cooperation, the ASEAN leaders have agreed to establish the ASEAN Security Community (ASC). The ASC aims to ensure that countries in the region live at peace with one another and with the world in a just, democratic and harmonious environment. The members of the Community regard their security as fundamentally linked to one another and bound by geographic location, common vision and objectives.
    B  EU (European Union) countries account for a small percentage of the world’s population. They must therefore continue pulling together if they are to be able to compete on the world stage with other major economies。No individual EU country is strong enough to go it alone in world trade. The European single market provides companies with a vital platform for competing effectively on world markets. Half a century of European integration has shown that the EU as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts: it has much more economic, social, technological, commercial and political clout than if its member states had to act individually.
    C  NAFTA (The North American Free Trade Agreement) has substantially liberalised trade in services and has opened government procurement markets, including procurement in services and construction markets. The agreement makes it illegal for the parties to discriminate between national and foreign producers in the trading of services, government markets and investment. One prime benefit of NAFTA is that the NAFTA agreement encourages greater immigration between the three countries.
    D  WTO (World Trade Organisation) rules, agreed by member countries, limit the role that governments can play in their national economies. These include the level of taxes charged on goods coming into a country, goods quotas, support for national industry, and subsidies for farmers, Virtually any economic policy (and some social policies) that a government can make is restricted by what is agreed at the WTO. This means that elected governments do not have a full range of policy options open to them—their range is narrowed by the WTO.
For this international organisation, uniting as an integrated part makes it easier to face fierce international competition.
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答案B
解析 题目意为：对于该国际组织来说，团结为一个整体使应对激烈的国际竞争变得更容易。B段指出“欧盟国家人口占世界人口的比例很小。因此，欧盟各成员国如果与其他的主要经济体在世界舞台上竞争的话，就必须不断地联合在一起。任何一个欧盟成员国都没有强大到足以在世界贸易中独领风骚。然后指出：“Half a century of European integration has shown that the EU as a whole is greater than the sum of its parts…”即：欧洲一体化半个世纪的历史已经表明：欧盟作为一个整体比各成员国相加的总和更强大。因此，可推断出B段符合题意。
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