A budget approved by the European Parliament for the European Economic Community was declared adopted Tuesday despite opposition by ministers. The president of the Parliament, Simone Veil, signed the $24.2 billion 1982 budget,【C1】______the EEC into its third【C2】______budget conflict. Minutes after receiving a【C3】______from ministers to【C4】______the signing to give time to work out a【C5】______, Veil told Britain's Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Nicholas Ridley, she had adopted the budget. Ridley told reporters【C6】______speaking to Veil by telephone, ""She has adopted it, and she is absolutely【C7】______that the ministers should write to her in this way without【C8】______con-sultation. "" EEC sources【C9】______most member states would probably【C10】______to make full payments to the budget as adopted, and the conflict was likely to【C11】______well into next year. The ministers' letter to Veil,【C12】______after a meeting in Brussels Tuesday,【C13】______of serious consequences【C14】______the budget were adopted. ""The council of ministers appeals to you to put off the adoption of the 1982 budget【C15】______a consensus can be found. "" it said. The adoption【C16】______six months of tortuous negotiations between the 434-members Assembly and EEC budget ministers over 1982【C17】______. 【C18】______was blocked in the【C19】______by parliament's addition earlier this month of some $ 250 million much of it for jobs programs. The number of people out of【C20】______in the EEC in November reached a record of almost 10 million, or nine percent of the working population, according to the EEC statistics office."
单选题
【C1】
【正确答案】
C
【答案解析】plunge into/in表示“使陷入(或遭受)穷苦”。根据下文的budget conflict“预算冲突”,原文意思是“使EEC陷入了预算的冲突、矛盾当中”;所以填入“plunging”。而undergo“经受,经历;忍受;遭受”其后不接into;confront“使面临,使遭遇,面对(危险等)”,一般表示遇到困难之类的令人不愉快的东西或意想不到的事情,常用于被动语态,也可表示某事使某人“面对、面临、遇到”,常用于A confronted B withC结构中;convert“变换,转化,指(使)从一种形式或状态转变为另一种形式或状态,比如物理能量转化、数学公式转化、房间格局变动等”均不符合题意。
【答案解析】本题选“after”。根据上文,“Veil told Britain’s Financial Secretary to theTreasury,Nicholas Ridley,she had adopted the budget.”可见“Ridley是在与Veil通完电话后才对记者发表讲话的”,所以选择“after”。而选项A、B、D均不符合原文意思。
【答案解析】选项B表示“(对某事达成一致)意见、看法;同意”。根据文章一致性,“a-greement”与上文提到的“consensus(意见等)一致,一致同意”形成呼应。而选项A“冲突”,选项C“指‘可选择之事物’时,作可数名词;指‘选择自由’时,作不可数名词,常用于短语have the option of,have no option中”,选项D“丰富,充裕”均不符合题意。
单选题
【C19】
【正确答案】
A
【答案解析】in the end表示“最后”。本文是以时间顺序叙事的,“in the end”表示时间、事情的结束。而选项B“黎明;开端;dawn on/upon被理解,被想到”,选项C“事件;in any event无论如何;in the event of万一,如果发生”,选项D“黑暗;in the dark在黑暗中;秘密地”均不符合题意。
单选题
【C20】
【正确答案】
D
【答案解析】选项D表示“失业”。根据文章一致性原则,“work”与上段中的“jobs”形成一致性。而“out of(the)reach(of)无法得到(拿到,联系到等)”,“out of shape处于不佳状况”,“on impulse一时冲动,一时心血来潮”均不符合题意。