Operating a single currency is not going to be easy. European economic and (1)_____ union will not function (2)_____ hitches. (3

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问题     Operating a single currency is not going to be easy. European economic and (1)_____ union will not function (2)_____ hitches. (3)_____, signs of (4)_____ have already appeared. And these political, economic and social pressures will almost certainly (5)_____ in the years to come.
(6)_____ EMU failure is a topic generally (7)_____ in continental Europe. And for good reason. The (8)_____ of monetary union would almost certainly slam the European Union (9)_____ political (10)_____ and the world into (11)_____ crisis. "It would be almost as bad as a (12)_____ in Europe," says Uwe Angenendt, chief economist (13)_____ BHF-Bank in Frankfurt. The (14)_____ contend EMU failure is not possible. They (15)_____ insist that the political (16)_____ in Europe for monetary union is simply (17)_____ strong to allow (18)_____ to fail. But they (19)_____ a simple fact: European (20)_____ concocted monetary union, and therefore they can unconcoct it.


选项 A、crime
B、war
C、harassment
D、hardship

答案B

解析 选项"war"(战争)与其后的"as bad as a..."这一比较级结构相互配合来表达其前面一句中"political chaos"(政治混乱)和"financial crisis"(金融危机)所产生的具体"危害程度"。在解题时要注意原文中的一些固定结构以及比喻手法的运用。
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