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雅思阅读练习题及答案
Next Year Marks the EU's 50th Anniversary of the Treaty
A.
After a period of introversion and stunned self-disbelief,
continental European governments will recover their enthusiasm
for pan-European institution-building in 2007. Whether the
European public will welcome a return to what voters in two
countries had rejected so short a time before is another matter.
B.
There are several reasons for Europe’s recovering self-confidence. For years European economies had been lagging dismally behind America (to say nothing of Asia), but in 2006 the large continental economies had one of their best years for a decade, briefly outstripping America in terms of growth. Since
politics often reacts to economic change with a lag, 2006 ’s
improvement in economic growth will have its impact in 2007,
though the recovery may be ebbing by then.
C.
The coming year also marks a particular point in a political cycle
so regular that it almost seems to amount to a natural law. Every
four or five years, European countries take a large stride towards
further
integration
by signing
a new treaty:
the Maastricht
treaty
in 1992, the Treaty of Amsterdam in 1997, the Treaty of Nice in
2001.
And in
2005
they
were supposed
to
ratify
a
European
constitution, laying the ground for yet more integration
—until
the calm rhythm was
rudely shattered by
French
and Dutch voters.
But the political impetus to sign something every four or five
years has only
been interrupted,
not immobilised,
by this
setback.
D.
In 2007 the European
Union marks
the
50th anniversary of
another
treaty —the Treaty of Rome, its founding charter. Government
leaders
have
already agreed
to
celebrate
it
ceremoniously,
restating
their
commitment to
“ever
closer
union ” and the
basic
ideals
of
European unity.
By itself,
and in
normal circumstances,
the EU’s 50th -birthday
greeting
to
itself
would
be
fairly
meaningless, a routine expression of European good fellowship.
But it does not take a Machiavelli to spot tha
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