考研人數逐年增加，競爭之激烈使得我們不得不加急復習的日程。眾所周知，閱讀理解占據了考研英語二100分試卷的一半分值，而考研英語閱讀文章大多來自英美國家的主流報刊雜志，所以如果能在日常就多多閱讀這些文章，對以后讀懂文章做對題目來說會大有裨益。

學習步驟如下：

1.不看漢語譯文自己看一遍短文做理解

2.看漢語譯文比對自己理解的意思與之出入

3.強化記憶重點單詞（以記憶其漢語意思為主）

Will the European Union make it? The question would have sounded strange not long ago. Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a “Bermuda triangle” of debt, population decline and lower growth.

As well as those chronic problems, the EU faces an acute crisis in its economic core, the 16 countries that use the single currency. Markets have lost faith that the euro zone’s economies, weaker or stronger, will one day converge thanks to the discipline of sharing a single currency, which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation.

短文翻譯

歐盟還會存在下去嗎?不久前,這個問題聽起來可能會很奇怪。現如今,就連該聯盟最有力的支持者也在談論整個歐洲所面臨的由債臺高筑、人口下降及經濟增長緩慢構成的“百慕大三角”式難題。

除了這些長期性的問題外,歐盟的核心經濟區(使用統一貨幣的16個成員國)還面臨著一個嚴重的危機。人們曾認為,使用歐元的經濟體,無論強弱,總有一天會因為貨幣統一而成為一體,這可以避免缺乏競爭力的成員國采取貨幣貶值的緊急措施。但如今市場已經對此失去了信心。

核心單詞一覽

真題練習

*一定要做題哦

36. The EU is faced with so many problems that _____.

[A] it has more or less lost faith in markets

[B] even its supporters begin to feel concerned

[C] some of its member countries plan to abandon euro

[D] it intends to deny the possibility of devaluation

題目解析

36.【解析】根據題干關鍵詞定位到文章首段第二句“Now even the project’s greatest cheerleaders talk of a continent facing a ‘Bermuda triangle’ of debt, population decline and lower growth.”題干是對這句話的同義改寫，the EU=a continent, so many problems=a Bermuda triangle of..., is faced with=facing,根據這句話前部分的內容答案選 B，是對原文信息的同義改寫even=Now even, its supporter=the project’s greatest cheerleaders, begin to feel concerned=talk of.根據文章第二段第二句“Markets have lost faith that可知，市場喪失了對歐盟的信心，而非歐盟對市場喪失信心，故A項錯誤；C項在文中并未提及，屬于無中生有；D項的干擾源自文章第二段尾句“which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation”，但是這句話的意思是統一的貨幣讓某些無競爭力的成員國無法快速地解決貨幣貶值的問題，而非否認貨幣貶值的可能性，D項錯誤。