Some of the concerns surrounding Turkey’s application to join the European Union, to be (1) on by the EU’s Council of Ministers on December 17th, are economic--in particular, the country’s relative poverty. Its GDP per head is less than a third of the average for the 15 pre-2004 members of the EU. (2) it is not far off that of Latvia--one of the ten new members which (3) on May 1st 2004, and it is much the same as (4) of two countries, Bulgaria and Romania, which this week concluded (5) talks with the EU that could make them full members on January 1st 2007.
(6) , the country’s recent economic progress has been, according to Donald Johnston, the secretary-general of the OECD, stunning. GDP in the second quarter of the year was 13.4% higher than a year earlier, a (7) of growth that no EU country comes close to (8) . Turkey’s (9) rate has just fallen into single figur
A. inflows
B. imports
C. exports
D. outputs
In the Middle Ages the vast majority of European cities had walls around them. This was partly for defensive (51) but another factor was the need to keep out anyone regarded as undesirable, like people with contagious (52) . The Old City of London gates were all (53) by the end o the 18th century. The last of London’s gates was removed a century ago, but by a (54) of luck, it was never destroyed.
This gate is, in (55) fact, not called a gate at all; its name is Temple Bar, and it marked the (56) between the Old City of London and Westminster. In 1878 the Council of London took the Bar down, numbered the stones and put the gate in (57) because its design was (58) it was expensive to (59) and it was blocking the traffic.
The Temple Bar Trust was (60) in the 1970’s with the intention of returning the
A. requirement
B. job
C. necessity
D. obligation
Who won the World Cup 1994 football game What happened to the United Nations How did the critics (评论家) like the new play (41) an event takes place, newspapers are on the streets (42) the details. Wherever anything happens, reporters are on the spot to (43) the news. Newspapers have one basic (44) to get the news as quickly as possible from its source, from those who make it to those who want to (45) it. Radio, television, and (46) inventions brought competition for newspapers, so did the development of magazines and other means of communication. (47) , this competition merely spurred (促进) the newspapers on. They quickly made use of the newer and faster means of communication to improve the (48) and thus the efficiency of their own operations.
Today more newspapers are (49) and read than ever before. Competition also led newspapers to branch out to many other fields. Besides keeping readers
A. forms
B. existence
C. contents
D. purpose
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