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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：英国二三线小城日益衰退 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：英国二三线小城日益衰退 GRE考试精品课程指导  Thesedays the worst urban decay is found not in big cities but in small ones  当下，小城市而非大城市的都市衰败现象最为严重  WHENrecession hit Hartlepool in 2008 it hit hard, says Billy Reid, the owner of alocal key-cutting and engraving business. His stall in the shopping centre—anugly grey 1970s box that dominates the centre of the town—sits between gapswhere other firms have disappeared. “We lost the Woolworths, we lost Superdrug.Ive got two staff and just this year for the first time Ive had to cut theirhours,” he says. Nobody is moving house and nobody has much money—so few peopleneed keys cut or gifts engraved.  2008年的金融危机对哈特尔浦造成了严重的影响，BillyReid，当地一个钥匙配制和镌刻店的老板说，他经营的摊位是个20世纪80年代的小房间，灰色墙壁，实在不怎么好看，不过那时市中心的房子大抵都是这样的。当时，周围别的商店都已关门停业“伍尔沃斯关门了，超级药房也关门了，我有两个员工，今年我不得不开始减少他们的工作时间”他说，没人在搬家，也没人钱多，所以很少有人需要配钥匙或给礼物镌刻。  Britainseconomy is finally crawling out of recession. On October 8th the IMF sharplyupgraded its growth forecast for 2013. But the recovery is far from evenlyspread. In London and the south-east, house prices and employment are soaring.In places such as Hartlepool, a former shipbuilding and steel town in Teesside,on the north-east coast of England, there is precious little sign ofimprovement. The local unemployment rate is almost twice the national average,at 13%. Last year there was nobody in work in 30% of the towns working-agehouseholds.  英国经济终于慢慢的走出衰退，10月8日，国际货币基金组织大大的提高了2013年经济预期，但是经济复苏还远没有稳健均匀的展开，在伦敦和英国东南部，房价和就业都在迅猛飙升，在类似于哈特尔浦(位于英国东北海岸的提赛德的一个昔日造船和产钢的城镇)的地方，几乎没有复苏的迹象。当地失业率高达13%，几乎是全国水平的两倍。去年该城镇30%的适龄工作家庭成员都出于失业状态。  Partly,this reflects the extraordinary success of London and continuingdeindustrialization in the north of England. Areas such as Teesside have beenstruggling, on and off, since the First World War. But whereas over the pasttwo decades Englands big cities have developed strong service-sectoreconomies, its smaller industri