西班牙地下经济.doc

本周的第一篇新闻来自于《纽约时报》的一篇经济报道，有一定的难度。请读后完成其后所有练习。 第二篇新闻是外媒报道有关北京开展打击外国人非法居留专项行动的，难度一般（其新闻立场仅作参考）。请读后完成其后练习。 请大家陆续把所读过和听过的所有新闻稿中的重要生词列入你的生词本中，方便你们的复习。接下来的某周，我会通知并收齐所有同学的生词本查阅，完成情况会按一定比例计入各位的期末总成绩中，不上交生词本的同学，此项成绩为零。同时某一周课堂上还会有一个正式的单词小测验，考察大家对所读过的新闻中的单词的掌握程度，成绩也会计入期末总成绩中。请重视！！ Black market boom: Spaniards go underground to fight deepening recession Without the underground economy, we would be in a situation of probably violent social unrest, professor says By RAPHAEL MINDER SEVILLE, SPAIN?— More than six months ago, a 37-year-old worker here named Juan was laid off from his job delivering and assembling furniture for customers of Ikea, joining the legions of unemployed in Spain. Or so it would seem. Since then, Juan has continued doing more or less the same work. But instead of doing it on the payroll of Pantoja, a transport subcontractor to Ikea, he hovers around the parking lot of the megastore, luring customers of his own by offering not only to deliver their furniture but also to do “general work,” like painting and repairs, all for the bargain price of €40, or $51, a day. “I will do anything except electricity and plumbing, where I really don’t have enough expertise to guarantee a safe and decent job,” said Juan, who did not want his full name used because he does not declare his income and did not want to run afoul of the tax authorities. As Spain’s recession deepens, more workers like Juan are being shunted into an underground economy that amounts to as much as a fifth of Spain’s gross domestic product, according to some estimates, with broad implications as the country tries to revive itself, reform its labor market and keep at bay the kind of wrenching crisis that now threatens to push Greece out of the euro zone. The happy news is that the size of the underground economy means that more Spaniards are working than it might seem, and that the official unemployment figure of 24.4 percent — the highest in Europe — may be overstated by as much as five to nine p