2020年职称英语考试真题及答案(综合类B级).pdfVIP

2020年职称英语考试真题及答案(综合类B级) Ethnic Tensions in Belgium Belgium has given the world Audrey Hepburn Rene Magritt (surrealist artist), the saxophone(萨克斯管)and d p-fried potato chips that are somehow called French. But the story behind this flat, twice-Beijing-siz country is of a bad marriage betw n two nationalities living together that cannot stand each other. With no new government, more than a hundred days after a general election, rumors run wild that the country is about to disappear. We are two different nations, an artificial state. With nothing in common except a king, chocolate and b r. Said Filp Dewinter, the leader of the Flemish Bloc, the extreme- right Flemish party. Radical Flemish separatists like Mr Dewinter want to divide the country horizontally along ethnic and economic lines： to the north. Flanders—where Dutch (known locally as Flemish) is spoken and money is increasingly made; to th south. French-speaking Wallonla, where today old factories dominate the landscape. The area of present-day Belgium passed to the French in the 18th century. Following the defeat of Napoleon in 1815. Belgium was given to the kingdom of the Netherlands, from which it gained independence as a separate kingdom of th Netherlands, from which it gained independence as a separat kingdom in 1830. Since then, it has struggled for cohesion(结合).Anyon who has spoken French in a Flemish city quickly gets a sens of the mutual hostility that is part of daily life there. But there are reasons Belgium is likely to stay together, at least in the short term. The economies of the two regions are tightly linked, and separation would be a financial nightmare. But there is also d p resentment in Flanders that its much healthier economy must subsidize(补贴)the south, wher unemployment is double that of the north. French speakers in the south, meanwhile, favor the states quo(现状). Belgium