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Undeniably, many Europeans arc suffering. Levels of unemployment are the highest since records began in France(3. 2 million)and
Undeniably, many Europeans arc suffering. Levels of unemployment are the highest since records began in France(3. 2 million)and
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2015-09-30
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Undeniably, many Europeans arc suffering. Levels of unemployment are the highest since records began in France(3. 2 million)and Spain(6 million). Bad European news mounts almost daily.
Europe is having a terrible time—except compared with probably every other continent and any time in history. Look at crisis stricken Spain, for instance. The average Spaniard now lives to 82, seven years longer than in 1980.(Most countries where people can expect to reach 82 are European, says the World Health Organization.)Today that average Spaniard’s income, despite years of crisis, is still nearly double what it was in 1980. And across Europe, daily life has tended to get gradually more pleasant. For instance, crime rates have kept falling in most western countries despite the crisis. British streets haven’t been this safe in more than 30 years, according to the UK’s Office of National Statistics.
It’s important to realize that most people’s lives aren’t affected by the latest twist in the euro zone crisis. A good new breast-cancer drug often does more for collective happiness than a good new prime minister. And those gains get shared out most fairly in Europe. That’s why seven of the 10 best-rating countries on the World Economic Forum’s gender gap index are European. So are six of the top 10 least corrupt in Transparency International’s corruption perception index. And when the CIA ranked 136 countries for income equality, the 17 most equal were all European. No wonder Spain and even Greece outrank Qatar on the United Nations’ human development index.
Most emerging economies lag decades behind us: Russian, Brazilian and Chinese average incomes are still below half those in Greece, according to the World Bank. Nonetheless, the relative rise of new countries engenders paranoia. The American pundit Thomas Friedman often says China and India are "eating our lunch". But since the global economy isn’t a zero-sum game, it’s more accurate to say that the Chinese and Indians are making our lunch. The richer they get, the better they can afford our high-end engineering products, hotel rooms, luxury goods, universities, etc.
It’s also notable how well European democracies have held up under five years of crisis. In 1981, when shots were fired in Spain’s parliament, that average Spaniard still worried about a fascist coup. Today every western European country is a secure democracy. Contrary to predictions, Europe’s far right hasn’t risen en masse during the crisis, notes the London-based research and advisory group Counterpoint. Nor has Western Europe experienced a big terrorist atrocity since 2005.
Crucially, too, the next round of wars shouldn’t involve Europeans. If Iran, North Korea or Taiwan blows up, we won’t be there. We just don’t have the gunboats any more. Last year Asian defense spending exceeded Europe’s probably for the first time since Europeans began conquering the world 500 years ago. Defense experts bewail our impotence, but on the bright side, governments with strong armies always overestimate their ability to manage a war smoothly, and get lured into horrible adventures. That won’t happen to us. Moreover, given our lack of natural resources, other countries will probably leave us in peace. Sure, the 400 million western Europeans—just 6 per cent of the global population—won’t rule the world again, but then we don’t particularly want to.
The word "paranoia"(Line 3, Paragraph 1)is closest in meaning to ______,
选项
A、delusion
B、grief
C、ecstasy
D、jealousy
答案
A
解析
本题考查考生根据上下文意思推测生词意思的能力。“paranoia”一词本意是(医)妄想狂;偏执狂;(对别人的)瞎猜疑;疑神疑鬼,文中出现在第四段第二句话里。第四段通过欧洲国家与新兴经济体的对比,论述欧洲在经济上面仍然处于领先地位。第一句概述俄罗斯等新兴国家的人均收入仍然落后欧洲国家。第二句出现了“Nonetheless”,可见是转折关系,随后,引用托马斯的评论,代表一种新兴国家威胁论,但是作者立即在接下来的论述中指出这种评论是不准确的,甚至恰恰相反的,因此,可见第二句中新兴国家的相对崛起引发的是一种错觉,猜疑的态度,因此A是正确选项。BCD与第四段的某些单句之间的确存在某种联系,但是整体看来,都没有很好的与上下文融为一体,均不是最佳答案。
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