GRE阅读练习： 墨西哥冲破黑暗走向黎明.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE阅读练习： 墨西哥冲破黑暗走向黎明 GRE考试模拟：GRE阅读练习： 墨西哥冲破黑暗走向黎明 GRE考试精品课程训练  After years of underachievement and rising violence, Mexico is at last beginning to realize its potential  经过长年停滞和内乱，墨西哥终于迎来曙光  The Apocalypse was on its way, and it would begin in Mexico. Where else When archaeologists dug up Mayan calendars that ominously seemed to run out in the final days of 2012, some doomsayers predicted the end of the world. To many Mexicans it seemed like just another example of their country’s unending run of bad luck. The steepest recession on the American mainland, a plague of H1N1 swine flu and a deepening war against organized crime had made the preceding few years fairly grim. In 2009 the Pentagon had given warning that Mexico could become a “failed state”. Armageddon would be the icing on the cake.  《圣经·启示录》中的预言正在实现，而首当其冲的就是墨西哥。舍此其谁?考古学家挖掘出的玛雅日历似乎到2012年末为止，这一凶兆为部分末日论者所用，预言为世界末日。而众多墨西哥人看来，这不过是他们无限厄运的另一实例而已。除了美洲大陆上经济最为不佳之外，墨西哥还遭受H1N1猪流感和缉毒战争的洗礼，其前途一片黯淡。2009年，美国五角大楼(Pentagon)警示称，墨西哥可能成为“失败国家”。《启示录》中的“大审判”(Armageddon)不过给其“锦上添花”罢了。  But it turns out that the Mayan glyphs were misunderstood. The men with magnifying glasses now say that the world is not about to end—in fact, it seems that the Mayans were predicting something more like a renewal or a fresh start. Could the same be true of Mexican?  但事实上，人们误解了玛雅石雕上的日历。现在，石雕上手握圣杯的男子已不再表示终结。相反，玛雅人的预示似乎更接近重生或新生。而同样的事能在墨西哥成真吗?  This special report will argue that there is a good chance of it. Some awful years are giving way to what, if managed properly, could be a prosperous period for Latin America’s second-largest economy. Big, irreversible trends, from a falling birth rate at home to rising wages in China, are starting to move in Mexico’s favor. At the same time the country’s leaders are at last starting to tackle some of the home-grown problems that have held it back.  本篇特别报道支持这一说法。惨淡的岁月已然过去。只要管理得当，在今后的日子里，这一拉美第二经济体将迎来繁荣昌盛。不可阻挡的时代潮流，已从劳动减少、成本