单选题
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 figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country (10) agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion iconomic program that will help Turkey (11) inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy's resilience.
Resilience has not historically been the country's economic strong point. (12) , throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram (13) a violent heart attack. This (14) has been one of the main reasons why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual (15) have scarcely ever reached $1 billion.
One deterrent to foreign investors is due to (16) on January 1st 2005. On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six zeros will be removed from the face value of the lira(里拉,土耳其贷币单位); one unit of the local (17) will henceforth be worth what 1 million are now—ie, about
(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 figures for the first time since 1972, and this week the country (10) agreement with the IMF on a new three-year, $10 billion iconomic program that will help Turkey (11) inflation toward European levels, and enhance the economy's resilience.
Resilience has not historically been the country's economic strong point. (12) , throughout the 1990s growth oscillated like an electrocardiogram (13) a violent heart attack. This (14) has been one of the main reasons why the country has failed dismally to attract much-needed foreign direct investment. Its stock of such investment is lower now than it was in the 1980s, and annual (15) have scarcely ever reached $1 billion.
One deterrent to foreign investors is due to (16) on January 1st 2005. On that day, Turkey will take away the right of virtually every one of its citizens to call themselves a millionaire. Six zeros will be removed from the face value of the lira(里拉,土耳其贷币单位); one unit of the local (17) will henceforth be worth what 1 million are now—ie, about
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。decided意为“决定”；voted意为“投票，表决”；elected意为“选举”；appointed意为“任命”。根据常识，就土耳其加入欧盟的申请需要在欧盟部长会议上进行表决，因此vote符合题意。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该空前后是转折关系，该句意为：土耳其人均GDP还不足 2004年之前欧盟16国人均GDP的三分之一，但是和2004年6月1日加入欧盟的十个新成员国之一拉脱维亚相比，土耳其差得并不算太远。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。presented意为“呈交，授予”等；attended意为“参加”，通常指参加会议或课程等；joined指参加某种组织；participated通常和in搭配，指参加活动等。此处指拉脱维亚加入欧盟，joined符合题意。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语法现象。此处选择复数形式those指代保加利亚和罗马尼亚这两个国家的人均GDP。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。application意为“申请”；accession意为“允许进入，允许使用”；reception意为“接待”；negotiation意为“协商”。此处指保加利亚和罗马尼亚加入欧盟的谈判， accession符合题意。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该句和上一段是递进关系，继续描述土耳其经济积极的一面。该句意为：不但如此，用经济合作和发展组织秘书长唐纳德•约翰斯顿的话来说，该国最近的经济发展十分惊人。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。ratio意为“比率”；rate意为“速度”；rhythm意为“节奏”；rhyme意为“韵律”。此处指土耳其经济发展的速度，rate符合题意。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] approaching意为“接近”；surpassing意为“超过”；matching意为“敌得过，比得上”；succeeding意为“成功，接下来”。根据文章，本年度第二季度的GDP比去年增长了 13.4%，这样的增长速度是任何欧盟成员国都无法匹敌的，因此[C]为最佳选择。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。inflation意为“通货膨胀”；interest意为“兴趣，利息”；investment意为“投资”；tariff意为“关税”。根据下文，土耳其和国际货币基金组织新达成的协议会进一步降低该国的通货膨胀率，因此该题选择inflation和下文形成重现。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词名词搭配。此处选择reach和agreement构成搭配，意为“达成协议”。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。该题应该选择一个及物动词和inflation构成动宾关系，因而drop， shrink和descend不符合要求，因为它们是不及物动词，虽然它们都有下降和减少之意；reduce意为“减少”，是及物动词，符合题意。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该空后面是对前面的解释，用indeed表达强调。该句意为，历史上该国经济并没有很强的韧性。的确，在整个20世纪90年代，该国的经济就好像一次猛烈的心脏病发作的心电图记录那样来回摆动。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。manifesting意为“表现”；accounting意为“计算”；recording意为“记录”；photocopying意为“复制，复印”。根据常识，心电图是记录心脏活动的，因此[C]是最佳答案。
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。mobility意为“移动性，流动性”；flexibility意为“灵活性”；stability意为“稳定性”；irregularity意为“不规律性”。根据上文，该国的经济就好像一次猛烈的心脏病发作的心电图记录那样来回摆动，这是一种不规律的现象，因此[D]为最佳选项。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。inflows意为“流入量”；imports意为“进口”；exports意为“出口”；outputs意为“产量”。此处指外资的流入量，因此[A]为最佳选择。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。根据文章，土耳其加入欧盟之后，一个妨碍外国投资者的因素将会消失，因此[C]为最佳答案。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。current做名词意为“电流，水流”；currency意为“货币”；stock意为“股票”；share意为“股份”。此处在描述土耳其货币产生的变化，因此[B]为最佳选择。
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】[解题思路] 动词辨析。根据文章，商品将在一整年内用新旧里拉同时定价，price(定价)符合题意。
【正确答案】
B
【答案解析】[解题思路] 语篇连贯。根据语篇，该空前后是转折关系。该句意为：商品将在一整年内用新旧里拉同时定价，但外国银行家和投资人现在可以期待今后在土耳其再不用快速心算一串串数不清的零了。
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】[解题思路] 名词辨析。此处选择investors与本段第一句中的foreign investors构成重现。