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智课网TOEFL备考资料法国大选前勒庞匆忙补救一托福阅读机经背景 One of Frances leading candidates in the upcoming presidential election may not appear on voter ballots. Far-right leader Marine le Pen is scrambling to get the 500 signatures from elected officials she needs to allow her to be on the ballot. 法国总统大选前一名令人瞩目的参选人或许无缘在选票上看到自己的名字了。极右翼领导人勒庞正忙于获得500名民选官员的签名。她需要获得这么多的签名，才能让自己的名字印上选票。 Marine le Pen is in the news a lot these days. Not just because she is campaigning to become Frances first female president. But also because of her controversial statements on immigration and Muslim dietary practices. 勒庞的名字最近这些天不断出现在新闻当中。这并不完全是因为她在竞选成为法国首位女总统，很大程度上却是因为她有关 移民 和穆斯林饮食习惯等问题上的说法引起了争议。 The leader of Frances far-right National Front party has called for a ban on halal meat, which is prepared according to special slaughtering practices by observant Muslims. She claims - although this is in dispute - that halal accounts for almost a quarter of the meat sold at supermarkets, that it may pose health risks and that animals suffer when they are killed. Le Pen is also talking tough on immigration. 这位法国极右翼国民阵线的领导人曾经呼吁禁止清真肉，这些肉类是按照特别屠宰习惯由严格遵守法规的穆斯林准备的。 勒庞宣称，尽管这个问题出现争议，但这种根据穆斯林屠宰习惯处理的清真肉类在法国超级市场占有四分之一的份额，它可能形成健康风险，动物被宰杀时也受了更 多的苦难。勒庞在移民问题上也十分强硬。 A measure of acceptance In these economic hard times, her anti-immigration rhetoric has found a measure of acceptance - not only with French voters, but also, it seems, with conservative President Nicolas Sarkozy. The president recently claimed France has too many foreigners. 在目前经济困境时期，勒庞的反移民言论得到了一定程度的接受，不仅仅是法国选民，似乎保守的萨科齐总统也是如此。萨科齐最近说，法国现在有太多的外国人。 Opinion polls place Le Pen third in the presidential race, behind President Sarkozy and Socialist Party front-runner Francois Hollande. But when voters cast their ballots on April 22, Le Pen may not be on the ballot. 民意调查结果显示，勒庞在竞选中排名第三，紧跟现任总统萨科齐和社会党看好的参选人弗朗索瓦.奥朗德。但是当选民于4月22号投票时，可能勒庞的名字不会在选票上出现。 That is because she is still missing endorsements by locally elected officials. She needs 500 to r