GRE双语阅读训练第十二弹：英国住房危机.docxVIP

Word文档下载后（可任意编辑） 第 第 PAGE 1 页 共 NUMPAGES 1 页 GRE双语阅读训练第十二弹：英国住房危机 GRE双语阅读训练：GRE双语阅读训练第十二弹：英国住房危机 GRE考试精品课程训练  Housing in Britain —— Rooms for improvement  英国的住房问题：进步空间  How to solve Britains housing mess?  如何解决英国的住房危机 ?  这篇阅读材料还有 MP3 音频哦 !下载传送门  On every side, Britains politicians are grappling with problems of immense scale and nightmarish complexity.  在各个方面，英国政客都在与大规模且噩梦般错综复杂的问题斗争。  How to manage the departure from the European Union?  如何解决脱欧带来的影响 ?  How to help a crumbling health service cope with an ageing, weakening population?  如何帮助一个摇摇欲坠的公共医疗服务应对人口日益老龄化且日益衰弱的情况 ?  How to deal with persistent regional deprivation?  如何应对持续的地域性贫困 ?  Yet one national scourge that holds back the economy and poisons politics is readily solvable — politicians just need to be brave enough to act.  然而一个国家的祸害比如阻碍经济和政治影响是容易解决的，政客们只需要足够勇敢的行为。  That scourge is the cost of housing.  这个灾祸是住房的成本。  The ratio of median house prices to earnings in England hit 7.7 in 2016, its highest recorded level.  2016 年，英国平均房价与收入的比率达到了 7.7，创历史最高水平。  In the past four decades house prices have grown by more in Britain than in any other G7 country.  在过去的四十年，英国的房价已经上涨得比其它 G7 国家还要多。  Home ownership has been falling for more than a decade, after rising for most of the past century.  在过去大半个世纪上涨之后，住房自有率已经连续十年下跌。  In London housing is outlandishly dear: before the Brexit vote sent the pound tumbling, it was the priciest city in the world for renters.  在伦敦，住房是出奇的昂贵：在英国退欧公投之前，英镑暴跌，伦敦是世界上租房价格最高的城市。  The cost of housing has knock-on effects across the economy.  住房成本对整个经济产生了连锁反应。  As people are forced out to the suburbs, cities become less dynamic.  当人们被迫搬到郊区时，城市变得不那么有活力了。  Workers waste time on marathon, energy-sapping commutes.  工人们把时间浪费在马拉松式、消耗能量的通勤上。  People from the regions cannot afford to move to cities where they might find work.  郊区的人们支付不起搬到他们可能找到工作的城区的费用。  Busines