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【单选题】Elections often tell you more about what people are against than what they are for. So it is with theEuropean ones that took place last week in all 25European Union member countries. These elections, widely trumpeted as the world’s biggest-ever multinational democratic vote, were fought for the most part as 25 separate national contests, which makes it tricky to pick out many common themes.But the strongest are undoubtedly negative.Europe’s voters are angry and disillusioned—and they have demonstrated their anger and disillusion in three main ways.
The most obvious was by abstaining. The average overall turnout was just over 45%, by some margin the lowest ever recorded for elections to theEuropean Parliament.And that average disguises some big variations: Italy, for example, notched up over 70o//00, but Sweden managed only 37%. Most depressing of all, at least to believers in theEuropean project, was the extremely low vote in many of the new member countries from centralEurope, which accounted for the whole of the fall in turnout since 1999. In the biggest, Poland, only just over a fifth of the electorate turned out to vote. Only a year ago, centralEuropeans voted in large numbers to join theEU, which they did on May 1st. That they abstained in such large numbers in theEuropean elections points to early disillusion with theEuropean Union—as well as to a widespread feeling, shared in the old member countries as well, that theEuropean Parliament does not matter.
Disillusion withEurope was also a big factor in the second way in which voters protested, which was by supporting a ragbag of populist, nationalist and explicitly anti-EU parties. These ranged from the 16% who backed the UK Independence Party, whose declared policy is to withdraw from theEU and whose leaders see their mission as "wrecking" theEuropean Parliament, to the 14% who voted for Sweden’s Junelist, and the 27% of Poles who backed one of two anti-EU parties, the League ofCatholic Families and Self-defense. These results have returned many moreEurosceptics and trouble-makers to the parliament, on some measures, over a quarter of the new MEPS will belong to the "awkward squad". That is not a bad thing, however, for it will make the parliament more representative ofEuropean public opinion.
But it is the third target ofEuropean voters’ ire that is perhaps the most immediately significant: the fact that, in manyEU countries, old and new, they chose to vote heavily against their own governments. This anti-incumbent vote was strong almost everywhere, but it was most pronounced inBritain, theCzech Republic, Germany, Poland and Sweden. The leaders of all the four biggestEuropean Union countries, TonyBlair inBritain, JacquesChirac in France, Gerhard Schroder in Germany and SilvioBerlusconi in Italy, were each given a bloody nose by their voters.
The big question now is howEurope’s leaders should respond to this.By a sublime (or terrible) coincidence, soon after the elections, and just as TheEconomist was going to press, they were gathering inBrussels for a crucial summit, at which they are due to agree a new constitutional treaty for theEU and to select a new president for theEuropeanCommission. Going into the meeting, mostEU heads of government seemed determined to press ahead with this agenda regardless of theEuropean elections—even though the atmosphere after the results may make it harder for them to strike deals.
It is implied in the text that the departure ofEurosceptics and trouble-makers from theEuropean Parliament______.
[A] benefits the old member countries for the time being
[B] fortifies the support of populist and nationalists
[C] might oblige anti-EU parties to adopt a compromise resisted by the public
[D] would hinder the full expression ofEuropean public feeling
网考网参考答案：D
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[考点解析] 这是一道细节推导题，测试考生识别原文相关信息并且进行适当逻辑推导的能力。本题的答案信息来源于第三段的倒数一、二句，这两句话的大意是：“这些结果选举更多的欧洲怀疑论者和麻烦制造者成为国会成员……。然而，这并不是一件坏事，因为这将使国会更代表欧洲公众的意见”。由此可以反推：欧洲怀疑论和麻烦制造者离开国会将有碍于欧洲公众情感的充分表达。故本题的止确选项应该是D“would hinder the full expression of European public feeling”(将阻碍欧洲公众情感的充分表达)。考生在阅读时要充分运用逆阳思维的能力。 document.getElementById("warp").style.display="none"; document.getElementById("content").style.display="block"; 查看试题解析出处>>