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A crisis at Banco Espirito Santo(BES), one of Portugal’s biggest banks, prompted a plunge in Portugal’s stock market and lesser

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问题     A crisis at Banco Espirito Santo(BES), one of Portugal’s biggest banks, prompted a plunge in Portugal’s stock market and lesser tumbles elsewhere. Angela Merkel, Germany’s chancellor, said that the episode illustrated how swiftly market nerves could return and how fragile the construction of the euro remained. Investors’ confidence in the German economy, Europe’s powerhouse, is waning, according to the ZEW index.
    Industrial production makes up only a fifth of the euro-zone economy. But its poor performance in May,2014 makes it likelier that the overall recovery, which started in the spring of 2013, remains feeble. To date, GDP growth has averaged only 0. 2% a quarter(an annualized rate of 0. 9%).
    Another worry about the recovery is that it has been so uneven. What little growth there was in the first quarter was driven by German output, which expanded sharply. The French economy, the second-biggest in the euro area,stagnated while Italy’s, the third-biggest, contracted.
    Unemployment is still disturbingly high in much of the euro zone. Though the overall jobless rate has fallen since its peak in 2013,it remained at 11. 6% of the labour force in May. That average disguises the fact that in Germany the rate was 5.1% compared with 12. 6% in Italy and 25. 1% in Spain.
    Against this background, it is unsurprising that inflation is stuck at just 0. 5%. Although the European Central Bank(ECB)took steps to counter "low-inflation" in early June, the worry is that it has still not done enough. In a survey of the euro-zone economy published on July 14th, the IMF urged the ECB to adopt quantitative easing—creating money to buy assets including sovereign bonds—if inflation remains too low.
Which of the following can be the best title for the text?
选项 A、The euro-zone economy
B、The euro-zone unemployment
C、The euro-zone low-inflation
D、The euro-zone recovery
答案A
解析 本题选择最佳标题，属于主旨大意题，需根据文章的整体内容归纳。文章以葡萄牙危机为例，开门见山提出欧洲经济的低迷状态引发人们的担忧。之后列举了欧洲各国经济不容乐观的三大现象。最后指出，如果这一现象持续发展，国际货币基金组织(IMF)要求欧洲央行采取量化宽松政策。根据文意，选项[A]更全面地概括了全文。
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