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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： 默克尔访问希腊遭抵制 GRE阅读文章：GRE阅读练习： 默克尔访问希腊遭抵制 GRE考试精品课程训练  AS a stiff Aegean breeze fluttered the hair and lapels of AngelaMerkel’s pale-green jacket, one Greek reporter thought the outfit lookedfamiliar. The German chancellor, making a one-day working visit to Athens, seemedto have picked the same jacket she wore in July while watching Germany trounceGreece 4-2 at this year’s European football championship. Was Mrs. Merkelplanning to blast the Greeks again, this time for foot-dragging over economicreforms?  德国总理正对希腊进行为期一日的工作访问，安吉拉·默克尔身着淡绿色夹克站立在爱琴海的微风中，头发和衣领随风翩翩起舞。此情此景令一名希腊记者觉得似曾相识。七月份的欧洲足球锦标赛决赛上她穿的也是这件衣服。她似乎特意挑选过，难道默克尔打算再一次扇希腊一嘴巴吗?上次是因为希腊以2-4大败于德国，这次难道是因为停滞不前的经济改革?  Antonis Samaras, the prime minister, need not have worried. TheEuropean Union’s toughest advocate of austerity gave a positive message, evenif it was typically cautious. Mrs. Merkel said she hoped and wished that Greecewould remain a member of the euro zone, praised the country’s progress withcutting expenditure and offered “practical” assistance with structural reforms,such as German expertise on overhauling tax administration and modernizinglocal government.  希腊总理安东尼斯·萨马拉斯不必忧心忡忡。欧盟中态度最 强硬的紧缩政策拥护者虽然仍保持谨慎态度，但其已向希腊传达了积极的信号。默克尔表示她希望希腊能维持其欧元区成员国的地位，她表扬了希腊在削减财政支出方面所取得的进展，并切实为希腊提供结构改革方面的援助，其中包括为希腊税收管理大检修提供德国专家的指导，以及为当地政府现代化提供帮助。  The chancellor’s efforts to empathize with ordinary Greekssuffering the pain of a five-year recession were less successful. Hostileprotesters outside parliament waved banners declaring “Angela you are notwelcome”. Alexis Tsipras, leader of the radical left-wing Syriza, now the mainopposition party in parliament, joined the demonstration, railing against“barbarous” measures imposed by international lenders. Several municipalworkers in full Nazi uniform, one of them with an Adolf Hitler moustache, drovea jeep flying swastika flags through a central boulevard as a tastelessreminder of the German occupatio