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  3. Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with the European ones that took pl

Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with the European ones that took pl

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问题     Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with the European ones that took place last week in all 25 European Union member countries. These elections, widely trumpeted as the world’s biggest-ever multinational democratic vote, were fought for the most part as 25 separate national contests, which makes it tricky to pick out many common themes. But the strongest are undoubtedly negative. Europe’s voters are angry and disillusioned—and they have demonstrated their anger and disillusion in three main ways.
    The most obvious was by abstaining. The average overall turnout was just over 45%, by some margin the lowest ever recorded for elections to the European Parliament. And that average disguises some big variations: Italy, for example, notched up over 70% , but Sweden managed only 37%. Most depressing of all, at least to believers in the European project, was the extremely low vote in many of the new member countries from central Europe, which accounted for the whole of the fall in turnout since 1999. In the biggest, Poland, only just over a fifth of the electorate turned out to vote. Only a year ago, central Europeans voted in large numbers to join the EU, which they did on May 1st. That they abstained in such large numbers in the European elections points to early disillusion with the European Union—as well as to a widespread feeling, shared in the old member countries as well, that the European Parliament does not matter.
    Disillusion with Europe was also a big factor in the second way in which voters protested, which was by supporting a ragbag of populist, nationalist and explicitly anti-EU parties. These ranged from the 16% who backed the UK Independence Party, whose declared policy is to withdraw from the EU and whose leaders see their mission as "wrecking" the European Parliament, to the 14% who voted for Sweden’s Junelist, and the 27% of Poles who backed one of two anti-EU parties, the League of Catholic Families and Self-defense. These results have returned many more Eurosceptics and trouble-makers to the parliament: on some measures, over a quarter of the new MEPS will belong to the "awkward squad". That is not a bad thing, however, for it will make the parliament more representative of European public opinion.
    But it is the third target of European voters’ ire that is perhaps the most immediately significant: the fact that, in many EU countries, old and new, they chose to vote heavily against their own governments. This anti-incumbent vote was strong almost everywhere, but it was most pronounced in Britain, the Czech Republic, Germany, Poland and Sweden. The leaders of all the four biggest European Union countries, Tony Blair in Britain, Jacques Chirac in France, Gerhard Schroder in Germany and Silvio Berlusconi in Italy, were each given a bloody nose by their voters.
    The big question now is how Europe’s leaders should respond to this. By a sublime (or terrible) coincidence, soon after the elections, and just as The Economist was going to press, they were gathering in Brussels for a crucial summit, at which they are due to agree a new constitutional treaty for the EU and to select a new president for the European Commission. Going into the meeting, most EU heads of government seemed determined to press ahead with this agenda regardless of the European elections—even though the atmosphere after the results may make it harder for them to strike deals.
It is implied in the concluding paragraph that ______.
选项 A、European old member countries are poor and homogenous
B、Europe’s leaders are bewildered by the crucial summit
C、Europe’s politicians should heed their voters’ dissatisfaction
D、European coincidences might emerge due to the economic stagnation
答案C
解析 这是一道细节推导题，测试考生识别原文重点句子并且准确分析和理解的能力。本题的答案信息来源于尾段的第一句，其大意是：“目前最大的问题是欧洲的领导人如何对这种情况作出反应”。“这种情况”(this)涉及的是欧洲选民的愤怒和幻灭。由此可以引申推导：欧洲政府更应该注意欧洲选民的不满(即愤怒和幻灭)。故本题的正确选项应该是C“Europe’s politicians should heed their voters’dissatisfaction”(欧洲政治家应该注意其选民的不满情绪)。考生在阅读时要重视原文中的重点句子(例如段落主题句和结论句)，在回答问题时更要注意引申思维的运用。
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