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  3. Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be (1)_____ on by the EU’s Council of Minis

Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be (1)_____ on by the EU’s Council of Minis

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问题     Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be (1)_____ on by the EU’s Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic—in particular, the country’s relative poverty. Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU. (2)_____ it is not far off that of Latvia—one of the ten new members which (3)_____ on May 1st 2004, and it is much the same as (4)_____ of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded (5)_____ talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st 2007.
    (6)_____, the country’s recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, stunning. GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a (7)_____ of growth that no EU country comes close to (8)_____. Turkey’s (9)_____ rate has just fallen into single figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country (10)_____ agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion economic program that will help Turkey (11)_____ inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy’s resilience.
    Resilience has not historically been the country’s economic strong point. (12)_____, throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram (13)_____ a violent heart attack. This (14)_____ has been one of the main reasons why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual (15)_____ have scarcely ever reached $1 billion.
    One deterrent to foreign investors is due to (16)_____ on January 1st 2005. On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six zeros will be removed from the face value of the lira(里拉，货币单位); one unit of the local (17)_____ will henceforth be worth what 1 million are now—i.e., about 0.53 (0.53欧元). Goods will have to be (18)_____ in both the new and old lira for the whole of the year, (19)_____ foreign bankers and (20)_____ can begin to look forward to a time in Turkey when they will no longer have to juggle mentally with indeterminate strings of zeros.

选项 A、Instead
B、Indeed
C、Accordingly
D、Surprisingly
答案B
解析 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该空后面是对前面的解释，用indeed表达强调。该句意为，历史上该国经济并没有很强的韧性。的确，在整个20世纪90年代，该国的经济就好像一次猛烈的心脏病发作的心电图记录那样来回摆动。
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