Jacques Delors suggested euro as the name of the single currency in Europe.A.YB.NC.NG
Jacques Delors suggested euro as the name of the single currency in Europe.
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Jacques Delors suggested euro as the name of the single currency in Europe.
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Why did Guy Verhofstadt put forward the example of Jacques Delors?
A.Barroso should put forward more plans in strengthening EU's economic power.
B.Barroso should get more of his proposed plans implemented and carried into effects.
C.Despite some anticipated serious obstacles, Barroso should implement the policies and they should produce some results.
D.Jacques Delors is a better president than Barroso in dealing with financial issues.
Part Ⅱ Reading Comprehension (Skimming and Scanning)
Directions: In this part, you will have 15 minutes to go over the passage quickly and answer the questions on Answer Sheet 1.
For questions 1~7, mark
Y (for YES) if the statement agrees with the information given in the passage;
N (for NO) if the statement contradicts the information given in the passage;
NG (for NOT GIVEN) if the information is not given in the passage.
For questions 8~10, complete the sentences with the information given in the passage.
Euro (欧元)
National currencies are vitally important to the way modern economies operate. They allow us to consistently express the value of an item across borders of countries, oceans, and cultures. Wealth can be easily stored or transported as currency.
Currencies are also deeply embedded in our cultures and our psyche. Think about how familiar you are with the price of things. If you've grown up in the United States, you think of everything in "dollars," just like you think about distances in inches and miles.
On January 1, 2002, the euro became the single currency of 12 member states of the European Union. This will make it the second largest currency in the world (the U.S. dollar being the largest). It will also be the largest currency event in the history of the world. Twelve national currencies will evaporate (蒸发) and be replaced by the euro.
Designing the Euro
The European Commission (EC) was given the task of creating the euro symbol as part of its communications work. There were three things the design had to accomplish:
It had to be easily recognized.
It had to be easily written by hand.
It had to be pleasing to look at.
The EC had more than 30 designs drawn up. They selected 10 from those and let the public vote, which narrowed those 10 down to two. From them they made their final selection. The design that was selected is based on the Greek letter epsilon, and also resembles the "e" as the first letter of the word "Europe." The two parallel lines through the center of the "c" represent stability.
Where Did the Idea Come From?
The original seed was planted in 1946 when Winston Churchill suggested the creation of the "United States of Europe." His goals were primarily political, in that he hoped a unified government would bring about peace for a continent that had been torn apart by two World wars.
Then, in 1952, six west-European countries took Churchill's suggestion and created the European Coal and Steel Community (ECSC) These resources were quite strategic to the power of each country, so a requirement of the ECSC was that each country allows their resources to be controlled by an independent authority. Their goal, just as Churchill had intended, was to help prevent military conflict between France and Germany.
In 1957, the Treaty of Rome was signed, declaring the goal of creating a common European market. It was signed by France, Germany, Italy, Belgium, the Netherlands, and Luxembourg.
After many false starts, the process of creating the Euro got its real start in 1989, when the Delors Report was published by Jacques Delors, president of the European Commission. This important report outlined a three-stage transition (过渡) plan that would create a single European currency.
Planning the Transition
As outlined in the Delors Report, the transition to a single European courtesy followed a three- stage plan: Stage one began on July 1, 1990, and immediately abolished (废止) (at least in princi
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But prominent federalists are also unimpressed. Guy Verhofstadt, a former Belgian prime minister, speaks for many in Brussels when he denounces Mr. Barroso for a lack of ambition for Europe. Mr. Verhofstadt invokes the memory of Jacques Delors, the pugnacious Frenchman who ran the commission from 1985 to 1995.Mr. Delors proposed many ambitious plans, he says, and got 30% of them: that 30% then became the European internal market. Mr. Verhofstadt thinks that last autumn Mr. Barroso should have proposed such things as a single EU financial regulator, a single European bad bank, or a multi-trillion issue of "Eurobonds". That would have triggered a " big fight" with national governments, he concedes. But "maybe the outcome would have been 10%, 20% or 30% of his plan. "
The French president, Nicolas Sarkozy, has endorsed a second tenn for Mr. Barroso, a former centre-right prime minister of Portugal. Yet he seems keen to make him sweat. French officials have briefed that the decision on Mr. Barroso's future taken at the June 18th-19th summit should be only political, leaving a legally binding nomination for later.
Yet the attacks on Mr. Barroso are unlikely to block him. No opinion poll shows the PES overtaking the centre-right European People's Party in the European Parliament. The centre- right leaders who hold power in most of Europe have endorsed Mr. Barroso, as have the (nominally) centre-left leaders of Britain, Spain and Portugal. This helps to explain why the PES, for all its bluster, has not fielded a candidate against Mr. Barroso.
It is equally wrong to pretend that Europe was ready for a federalist big bang last autumn. Officials say Mr. Barroso spent the first weeks of the economic crisis bridging differences between Britain and France on such issues as accounting standards and the regulation of rating agencies. Later, he kept the peace between Mr. Sarkozy and the German chancellor, Angela Merkel, after the French president pushed for summits of EU leaders from euro-area countries (Ms Merkel thought that sounded like a two-speed Europe). In any case France has no veto over Mr. Barroso's reappointment: the decision is now taken by majority vote. Some diplomats suggest that France's stalling tactics are meant to extract such concessions as a plum portfolio for its commissioner.
Those calling for "European" action often talk as if they are describing an elegant mechanism, needed to make the union work properly. They argue that only a single financial regulator can police Europe's single market, or complain that 27 national bail-out plans lack "coherence". In fact, these apparently structural calls for "more Europe" are pitches for specific ideological programmes. Thus, in a joint statement on May 30th Mr. Sarkozy and Ms Merkel announced that "Liberalism without rules has failed. " They called for a European economic model in which capital serves "entrepreneurs and workers" rather than "speculators", and hedge funds and bankers' pay are tightly regulated. They added that competition policies should be used to favour the "emergence of world-class European companies", and gave warning against a "bureaucratic Europe" that blindly applies "pernickety rules". If all this sounds like Europe as a giant Rhineland economy, that is no accident.
Mr. Verhofstadt, a continental liberal, means
A.Barroso adopts policies that are in favour of market economy rather than social welfare.
B.Barroso does not care about European people.
C.Barroso suggests EU establish more markets for the convenience of European people.
D.Barroso is the owner of many markets in Europe.
Which of the following fostered the great expansion of formal schooling?
A.Reformers" suggestions.
B.The coming of a large population from Europe.
C.The expansion of industrial cities.
D.The requirement of specific populations.
听力原文:Don't you like Tom's design? I think it's really good.
(A) I don't like his suggestion.
(B) No, actually I think it's not as perfect as I imagine.
(C) No, I like him very much.
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What marked the critical moment for the creation of the Euro?
A.The United States of Europe.
B.The European Coal and Steel Community.
C.The Treaty of Rome.
D.The Delors Report.
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