考研人数逐年增加，竞争之激烈使得我们不得不加急复习的日程。众所周知，阅读理解占据了考研英语二100分试卷的一半分值，而考研英语阅读文章大多来自英美国家的主流报刊杂志，所以如果能在日常就多多阅读这些文章，对以后读懂文章做对题目来说会大有裨益。
学习步骤如下：
1.不看汉语译文自己看一遍短文做理解
2.看汉语译文比对自己理解的意思与之出入
3.强化记忆重点单词（以记忆其汉语意思为主）
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.
短文翻译
欧盟还会存在下去吗?不久前,这个问题听起来可能会很奇怪。现如今,就连该联盟最有力的支持者也在谈论整个欧洲所面临的由债台高筑、人口下降及经济增长缓慢构成的“百慕大三角”式难题。
除了这些长期性的问题外,欧盟的核心经济区(使用统一货币的16个成员国)还面临着一个严重的危机。人们曾认为,使用欧元的经济体,无论强弱,总有一天会因为货币统一而成为一体,这可以避免缺乏竞争力的成员国采取货币贬值的紧急措施。但如今市场已经对此失去了信心。
核心单词一览
真题练习
*一定要做题哦
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
题目解析
36.【解析】根据题干关键词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.”题干是对这句话的同义改写，the EU=a continent, so many problems=a Bermuda triangle of..., is faced with=facing,根据这句话前部分的内容答案选 B，是对原文信息的同义改写even=Now even, its supporter=the project’s greatest cheerleaders, begin to feel concerned=talk of.根据文章第二段第二句“Markets have lost faith that可知，市场丧失了对欧盟的信心，而非欧盟对市场丧失信心，故A项错误；C项在文中并未提及，属于无中生有；D项的干扰源自文章第二段尾句“which denies uncompetitive members the quick fix of devaluation”，但是这句话的意思是统一的货币让某些无竞争力的成员国无法快速地解决货币贬值的问题，而非否认货币贬值的可能性，D项错误。
