GRE阅读练习：土耳其白色家电复苏经济.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：土耳其白色家电复苏经济 GRE阅读训练：GRE阅读练习：土耳其白色家电复苏经济 GRE考试精品课程指导  Hakan Bulgurlu, who manages Arcelik, the biggest producer and seller of white goods in Turkey, claims a “strong mood” has returned to his domestic market.  哈坎·保格鲁管理的阿奇立克是土耳其白色家电最 大的生产商和销售商。他声称“强烈情绪”已经回到国内市场。  Sales there leapt by 35% in the first quarter compared with the same time last year.  第 一季度的销售额比去年同期增长了35%。  His forecast is upbeat.  他的预测是乐观的。  “Turkey is more resilient than it looks from the outside,” he says, citing cheery reports from dealers who run his 3,000 own-brand shops.  他引用了一个经营着3000家自有品牌店铺的经销商的乐观报告，并说：“土耳其实际比它看起来更有弹性”。  Reality is less whiter than white.  现实比白色更惨淡。  Many investors and traders remain spooked by political dramas, a coup plot last year and by an authoritarian president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan.  由于去年独裁总统，雷杰普·塔伊普·埃尔多安的政变阴谋，许多投资者和交易员仍然很担忧。  The IMF gave warning in February that low business profits, a lack of credit and political uncertainty all bode ill for Turkeys economy.  二月份，国际货币基金组织指出，低的商业利润、缺乏信用和政治不确定性都预示着土耳其经济的衰退。  A splurge of public spending and stimulus measures—a special tax on appliances has been suspended for a few months—have brought forward sales of appliances to before the usual, summer, shopping season.  挥霍公共支出和一种特别税暂停的刺激措施，已使家电销售暂停好几个月，平时这个夏季就是购物季。  Firms cannot trust in a domestic recovery just yet.  各个公司并不相信国内的复苏。  Arceliks prospects, however, depend more on tapping distant markets than on rebounding local ones.  然而，阿奇立克的发展，更多的是依赖于开发遥远的市场而不是当地市场的反弹。  It wisely branched out after the mid-1990s (when Turkey joined Europes customs union) and today has 18 factories, with nearly 30,000 staff, in seven countries.  它在20世纪90年代中期(土耳其加入欧洲关税同盟)后明智地打开了市场，今天在七个国家有18家工厂，员工近3万人。  Last year it generated global sales of 4.8bn euro ($5.4bn) , 60% outside of Turkey, and a decent 11% pre-tax profit.  去年，它产生的全球销售是54亿美元，60%是来自