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Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerlead
Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerlead
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2012-03-27
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问题
Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a "Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth.
As well as those chronic problems, the EU face an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.
Yet the debate about how to save Europe’s single currency from disintegration is stuck. It is stuck because the euro zone’s dominant powers, France and Germany, agree on the need for greater harmonization within the euro zone, but disagree about what to harmonies.
Germany thinks the euro must be saved by stricter rules on borrow spending and competitiveness, marked by quasi-automatic sanctions for governments that do not obey. These might include threats to freeze EU funds for poorer regions and EU mega-projects and even the suspension of a country’s voting rights in EU ministerial councils. It insists that economic co-ordination should involve all 27 members of the EU club, among whom there is a small majority for free-market liberalism and economic rigour; in the inner core alone, Germany fears, a small majority favour French interference.
A "southern" camp headed by French wants something different: "European economic government" within an inner core of euro-zone members. Translated, that means politicians intervening in monetary policy and a system of redistribution from richer to poorer members, via cheaper borrowing for governments through common Eurobonds or complete fiscal transfers. Finally, figures close to the France government have murmured, euro-zone members should agree to some fiscal and social harmonization: e.g., curbing competition in corporate-tax rates or labour costs.
It is too soon to write off the EU. It remains the world’s largest trading block. At its best, the European project is remarkably liberal: built around a single market of 27 rich and poor countries, its internal borders are far more open to goods, capital and labour than any comparable trading area. It is an ambitious attempt to blunt the sharpest edges of globalization, and make capitalism benign.
The EU is faced with so many problems that______.
选项
A、it has more or less lost faith in markets
B、even its supporters begin to feel concerned
C、some of its member countries plan to abandon euro
D、it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation
答案
B
解析
细节题。很多考生做错了该题,因为定位出现了偏差。题干中的many problem定位在第二段的第一句,对应those chronic problems。然后作者开始提出acute crisis,因此答案指向第一段。同时,第一段最后提到了"Bermuda triangle" of debt, population decline and lower growth,债务、人口下降和低增长指的就是问题,而且句首的even对应题干的so...that...句型。
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考研英语二
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