考研英语经济类阅读理解及原文翻译
研究生英语读写译教程 第9-economic原文翻译及课后答案
全球经济一体化与中国斯蒂芬·罗世林[1] 中国，拥有世界上人口最多的国家，在2001年11月10日加入世界贸易组织，结束了长达15年的谈判，这为中国在世界民族之林获得了一个新的地位与席位，为几个世纪以来的梦想注入了新的活力。
[2] 自1971年恢复了中国在联合国安理会的合法席位以来，中国加入世界贸易组织是中国最具有意义的外交成就之一，这不久之后，理查德尼克松总统开启了著名的北京之行。
[3] 中国加入世界贸易组织，意味着可以享有反对对商品的惩罚性关卡的保护权。
美国国会基于对人权的考虑，将会恢复与中国的“正常贸易关系”，而停止每年一度的复审程序。
[4] 即便设置障碍，中国对于美国来说也是最重要的贸易合作伙伴。
美中贸易在2000年价值达1,160.2亿美元。
中国出口商品远比进口多。
去年用船运送到美国市场的商品和服务达1,000亿美元，成为美国的第四个出口商。
作为回报，美国给中国送来了价值160.3亿美元的商品与服务，只是美国的第十四个最大出口市场。
[5] 在海外中国人民已经是极好的贸易者和有创新能力的商人。
以新加坡为例，在美国拥有很多高科技公司，或是西方城市中的中国城。
加入世贸组织以后，中国将会变得更富有，世界也是这样。
[6] 中国正式加入世贸组织，除了可以获得大量的商机之外，当面对外国公司的激烈竞争之时，中国商人会面对一些不利的担忧，这是人之常情。
比如中国庞大且手续较复杂的农业部门，怎么与十分老练的美国大农场经营竞争？还有银行部门与电信市场？全球一体化公司似乎利用中国广泛的对外开放，而把中国置于危险境地。
[7] 加入世贸组织和诸多其它因素使得中国成为一个新的，有决策性的全球扮演者。
中国需要重新审视自己文化中丰富的伦理道德传统。
对中国商业环境的批评来自外国投资者对征税的意见，甚至是本国商人和朱镕基总理。
中国似乎为找到一个道德中心而不懈奋斗，制定了一系列商业道德用来管理和手把手指导国家的相关法律，这样做关系到国家经济发展的生死存亡。
考研英语范文阅读（三十六）
Could the bad old days of economic decline be about to return？ Since OPEC agreed to supply-cuts in March， the price of crude oil has jumped to almost $26 a barrel， up from less than $10 last December. This near-tripling of oil prices calls up scary memories of the 1973 oil shock， when prices quadrupled， and 1979-1980， when they also almost tripled. Both previous shocks resulted in double-digit inflation and global economic decline. So where are the headlines warning of gloom and doom this time？ The oil price was given another push up this week when Iraq suspended oil exports. Strengthening economic growth，at the same time as winter grips the northern hemisphere， could push the price higher still in the short term. Yet there are good reasons to expect the economic consequences now to be less severe than in the 1970s. In most countries the cost of crude oil now accounts for a smaller share of the price of petrol than it did in the 1970s. In Europe，taxes account for up to four-fifths of the retail price， so even quite big changes in the price of crude have a more muted effect on pump prices than in the past. Rich economies are also less dependent on oil than they were， and so less sensitive to swings in the oil price. Energy conservation， a shift to other fuels and a decline in the importance of heavy， energy-intensive industries have reduced oil consumption. Software， consultancy and mobile telephones use far less oil than steel or car production. For each dollar of GDP （in constant prices） rich economies now use nearly 50% less oil than in 1973. The OECD estimates in its latest Economic Outlook that， if oil prices averaged $22 a barrel for a full year， compared with $13 in 1998， this would increase the oil import bill in rich economies by only 0.25-0.5% of GDP. That is less than one-quarter of the income loss in 1974 or 1980. On the other hand， oil-importing emerging economies—to which heavy industry has shifted—have become more energy-intensive， and so could be more seriously squeezed. One more reason not to lose sleep over the rise in oil prices is that， unlike the rises in the 1970s， it has not occurred against the background of general commodity-price inflation and global excess demand. A sizable portion of the world is only just emerging from economic decline. The Economist's commodity price index is broadly unchanging from a year ago. In 1973 commodity prices jumped by 70%， and in 1979 by almost 30%. 51. The main reason for the latest rise of oil price is ________. （A）global inflation （B）reduction in supply （C）fast growth in economy （D）Iraq's suspension of exports 52. It can be inferred from the text that the retail price of petrol will go up dramatically if ________. （A）price of crude rises （B）commodity prices rise （C）consumption rises （D）oil taxes rise 53. The estimates in Economic Outlook show that in rich countries ________. （A）heavy industry becomes more energy-intensive （B）income loss mainly results from fluctuating crude oil prices （C）manufacturing industry has been seriously squeezed （D）oil price changes have no significant impact on GDP 54. We can draw a conclusion from the text that ________. （A）oil-price shocks are less shocking now （B）inflation seems irrelevant to oil-price shocks （C）energy conservation can keep down the oil prices （D）the price rise of crude leads to the shrinking of heavy industry 55. From the text we can see that the writer seems ________. （A）optimistic （B）sensitive （C）gloomy （D）scared 答案及试题解析 BDDAA 51.（B） 此题的难度合适，区分度好。
2019经济学人考研英文文章阅读一二三
Why an“Uber for tailors”is gaining ground in Lagos“裁缝优步”为何能在拉各斯发展起来？“Rich and poor,everyone has a tailor here,”says Olajire Omikunle,a couturier for Nigeria’s powerful.So great is the appeal of a well-cut outfit in Lagos,Nigeria’s commercial centre,that roadside stitchers rove the streets armed with their sewing machines and clicking their large scissors to drum up customers.尼日利亚颇具影响力的服装设计师奥拉吉尔·奥米昆勒说：“无论贫富，这里的每个人都有自己的裁缝。
”在尼日利亚的商业中心拉各斯，一套剪裁考究的服装如此具有吸引力，以至于街头裁缝们会带着他们的缝纫机在街道上来回穿梭，并拿着大剪刀咔嚓咔嚓地招揽着顾客。
David Peterside,a local entrepreneur,hopes to capitalise on this sartorial obsession with a new app that is being dubbed an“Uber for tailors”.Fashion Map allows natty Nigerians to find a suitmaker at the press of a button.当地企业家戴维·彼得赛德希望借着人们对服装的痴迷，开发一款名为“裁缝优步”的新应用。
整洁时髦尼日利亚人只需按下一个按钮，便能在时尚地图上找到一位裁缝。
It may be a perfect fit for Africa’s most populous country.Nigeria has a fast-growing base of smartphone users and“over100,000registered tailors”,says Otunba Wasiu Taiwo of the Nigeria Union of Tailors.“We are still counting.”该应用或许非常适合这个非洲人口最多的国家。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
The Guardian view on unaffordable homes: building injustice into the economy《卫报》关于难以负担的住房的观点：在经济中制造不公The average wage of the top 1% in Britain rose to £13,770 a month in December. Jeevun Sandher, an economist at King’s College London, points out the very richest saw their incomes rise the fastest during the pandemic. This group were also likely to have been able to save the most while Covid raged. Where do the very wealthiest spend their cash? One place is housing, for which there is a low level of stock being released on to the market. The result is rising house prices. Over the past 12 months, asking prices have gone up by 9.5%.12月，英国最富有的1%人群的平均工资上升至每月13770英镑。
伦敦国王学院的经济学家桑德尔指出，在疫情期间，最富有的人的收入增长最快。
在新冠病毒肆虐期间，这一群体也可能是能够存最多钱的人。
最富有的人把钱花在哪里？其中一个地方就是住房，因为住房市场上的存量很低。
结果就是房价上涨。
在过去12个月里，住房要价上涨了9.5%。
This has a knock-on effect for renters. UK rents rose by 8.3% in the last three months of 2021. For would-be first-time buyers, the situation is as bad if not worse, with the current average price of £277,000 nearly £25,000 higher than just a year ago. Those looking to have a roof to live under will find little solace in official figures. These record an 11% drop in the number of total homes added in 2021 compared with the year before. The number of new affordable houses that began being built dropped 16% year-on-year. Shortages of labour and materials, as well as planning delays, will make it harder for the 11th Tory housing minister since 2010 to meet government targets for new homes.这对租客产生了连锁反应。
考研英语阅读：经济类
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1. Currency teaserA strong rupee is giving policymakers a new sort of headacheTHE Indian finance ministry's mid-year review, released this week, sees the external sector as a silver lining around the country's huge fiscal deficit. "Buoyant" and "encouraging" are the words used to describe three consecutive quarters of current-account surplus--the first in a quarter-century. Add to that swelling foreign-exchange reserves and a stronger rupee, and some are arguing that it is time for drastic liberalisation of India's foreign-exchange regime. They could be disappointed.For most of the past decade, the nominal value of the rupee has been allowed to decline gently against the dollar, by about 5% a year, thus staying fairly steady in real terms. This year, however, it has been appreciating in real terms (and, since June, nominally as well). It would have done so more sharply had the central bank not been buying dollars with gusto. Exporters of manufactured goods, obsessed with price competition from China, are aghast at the rise--and at the prospect held out by some forecasters that a sustained boom in India's IT exports means it will continue.The rupee's recent strength is only partly related to India's prowess in software and the mushrooming of "business-process outsourcing" in such projects as call-centres. The chunky surpluson invisibles owes more to remittances: non-resident Indians, attracted by the stability of the rupee and its higher interest rates, have been moving their offshore deposits back home. Similarly, Indian companies are borrowing more in dollars without selling rupees forward to hedge repayments. The trade deficit, meanwhile, has been shrinking, as imports grow slowly.The inflows have boosted foreign-exchange reserves by some $20 billion this year, to $66 billion, or 12 months'-worth of imports. The size of this cushion has triggered some calls for further liberalisation of the labyrinthine foreign-exchange controls that India still maintains, despite the move in 1993 towards rupee convertibility for trade purposes. In recent months, some controls have duly been eased. It is now simpler, for example, for individuals to open foreign-currency bank accounts, and for travellers to get hold of foreign exchange. And non-resident Indians have been allowed to take out money acquired through inheritance, or from rents and dividends.Some commentators have taken all this as a harbinger of full capital-account convertibility. That is not on the cards. The experience of 1991, when India ran out of money, has left the central bank prone to caution--an approach it felt was vindicated by the East Asian crisis of 1997-98. With war in Iraq looming and a turbulent oil market, some risk aversion is understandable. India's fiscal deficit--some 10% of GDP and widening--is another reason for moving slowly. Just as one rating agency, Moody's, is considering upgrading India's external debt, another, Fitch, has warned that its local-currency rating is under threat. Nor is it certain that opening the capital account would mean a weaker rupee. It might even attract more capital inflows. As India's exporters are learning, convertibility is a two-way street.Economist; 12/7/2002, Vol. 365 Issue 8302, p73, 1/3p注(1)：本文选自Economist;12/7/2002, p73, 1/3p;注(2)：本文习题命题模仿2002年真题text 2第2题(1)，text 5第3题(2)，1995年真题text 2第4题(3)，2000年真题text 4第3题(4)和1998年真题text 2第4题(5);1.The expression “silver lining” (Line 2, Paragraph 1) most probably means______.[A] a side effect[B] a favorable aspect[C] a decorative line[D] a comforting prospect2.According to the text, the appreciation of the rupee in real terms__________.[A] will lower its nominal value[B] is bad news to exporters of manufactured goods[C] means a sharper decline of its nominal value against the dollar[D] will give impetus to the development of India’s IT industry3.The current account surplus owes to the following EXCEPT_________.[A] the strength of the rupee[B] the remittances of non-resident Indians[C] the hedging activity of Indian companies[D] the growing imports4.Which of the following is true according to the text?。
考研英语阅读理解典型范文 含译文翻译版
考研英语阅读理解典型范文含译文翻译版More and more consumers across the country are using cashless payment methods, The rapid development ofthird-party mobile payment tools is helpingto encourage cashless payment across the country, said Dong Ximiao, a researcher at the Renmin University of China.Although there were 3,4 billion third-partypayment accounts in total in China in 2016. China is not the first country to seek a cashless society. Developed states like Sweden, Denmark and Singapore are also seeing that increase.However, the rapid development of cashless payments does not mean there no challenges and criticisms. Alibaba’s Hema store has come into the spotlight recently. Media reports said that consumers can’t buy goods with cash there, which would be considered illegal.Alipay and WeChat Pay, the nation’s two major third party mobile payment tools, also launched campaigns this month to encourage more people to use cashless payment methods, which caused concern over whether cash will soon disappear“Some offline sellers refuse to accept cash,which influences the natural circulation of cash,’said Dong. He stressed that a cashless society would not mean that cash would completely disappear. Also it’s important to remember that nearly half of China’s population live in the countries, unable to enjoy innovation brought by the Internet, Dong said. And when it comes to China’s senior citizens most of them prefer to use cash in their daily lives, he added.“It’ ridiculous to question digital paymenttools’ contribution to financial development. In thelong term, various payment methods will be used by consumers, and merchants should respect consumers’payment habits. Dong noted.中国人民大学研究员董希淼表示，越来越多的中国消费者正在使用无现金支付方式，第三方移动支付工具的快速发展，有助于鼓励全国范围内的无现金支付。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
We must pay the cost of carbon if we are to cut it让每一个人都有减排的动力Shouldn’t we be doing more to respond to the climate emergency? It’s a natural question to ask. But, perhaps, we should turn the question around, and ask: why haven’t we solved the climate change problem already?为了应对气候紧急状态，我们难道不应该多做一点事情？这是个很自然的问题。
然而，也许我们应该反过来问：为什么我们还没有解决气候变化问题？Economics suggests a ready answer: externalities. Unfortunately, the concept of externalities is a century old, and it shows. So why do economists persist in using this dusty old term, and is it still useful?经济学给出了一个现成的答案：外部性。
可是，外部性的概念存在了一个世纪之久，而且得到了印证。
那么，经济学家们为什么还要使用这个陈旧的术语呢？它是否仍然有用？An externality is a cost — or sometimes, a benefit — that is not borne by either the buyer or the seller of a product. And, if neither has to bear the cost, neither has much reason to care.外部性是一种成本（有时是一种好处），是产品的买方和卖方都无需承担的成本。
考研英语阅读理解外刊原文经济学人
A global house-price slump is coming全球房价即将暴跌It won’t blow up the financial system, but it will be scary虽然不会摧毁金融体系，但仍然令人恐慌Over the past decade owning a house has meant easy money. Prices rose reliably for years and then went bizarrely ballistic in the pandemic. Yet today if your wealth is tied up in bricks and mortar it is time to get nervous.过去十年里，拥有一套房就意味着轻松赚钱。
房价多年来一直稳步上涨，甚至在疫情期间还异乎寻常地飙升了。
然而现如今，如果你的财富被套牢在房产上，那你应该感到紧张了。
House prices are now falling in nine rich economies. The drops in America are small so far, but in the wildest markets they are already dramatic. In condo-crazed Canada homes cost 9% less than they did in February.九个发达经济体的房价都在下跌。
到目前为止，美国房价的跌幅还不大，但最疯狂的市场的房价跌幅已经非常大了。
在热衷于共管公寓的加拿大，房价较今年2月下跌了9%。
As inflation and recession stalk the world a deepening correction is likely—even estate agents are gloomy. Although this will not detonate global banks as in 2007-09, it will intensify the downturn, leave a cohort of people with wrecked finances and start a political storm.随着通货膨胀和经济衰退的风险在全球范围内蔓延，房价或将迎来一场深度调整——甚至房地产经纪人也对此感到悲观。
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考研英语经济类阅读理解及原文翻译考研英语经济类阅读理解及原文翻译：OPTIONS AHOYWhy investors like Korean blue chipsDESPITE the world economic downturn, South Koreas stockmarket has this year outperformed those of all other countries bar Russia. Its composite stock price index (Kospi) has risen by more than 25% since January 1st. The rally, which has been driven by foreign buying, is expected to continue next year, for two reasons: encouraging economic fundamentals, and the introduction of derivatives so beloved of the worlds hedge funds.On January 28th next year the Korea Stock Exchange is due to introduce option contracts on the shares of seven listed companies: SK Telecom, Korea Electric Power, Korea Telecom, Samsung Electronics, Hyundai Motor, Pohang Iron Steel and Kookmin Bank. And as early as July, the Financial Supervisory Commission is expected to allow investment banks to sell over-the-counter derivatives, such as equity or interest-rate swaps. Trading volume on the exchange will increase accordingly, says Lee Wonki at Merrill Lynch. Foreigners hold nearly 90 trillion won ($70 billion) of Korean shares, 37% of the market. Their slice of the trading of Kospi 200 index futures and options rose to 10% this year, from about 5% a year ago. But the Kospi index, covering 200 companies, is not the best way to hedge foreign portfolios, which are invested mainly in the seven blue-chipshares. Yet derivatives alone will not sustain Korean equities unless the economy turns around. There are signs that it has reached bottom, with real GDP estimated to have grown by at least 2.8% this year (slower than last year but higher than earlier forecasts of 2% or less). Jin Nyum, the finance minister, predicts that, although exports may suffer next year if the Japanese yen continues to fall, domestic demand and public spending will help real GDP to grow near to the countrys full potential of 5%.Some analysts argue that the recent market rise has been caused by investors blind faith in bank and technology shares. The latter rallied last month, but then hesitated as Micron, an American memory-chip maker, blew hot and cold on taking a stake in or allying with Hynix, Koreas debt-laden maker of memory chips.Nevertheless, the rally is likely to continue, says Koh Wonjong, of SG Securities in Seoul. That is because South Koreas industries are more diversified--into information technology, cars, shipbuilding, steel and services--than those of other Asian countries. In Taiwan, telecoms, media and technology shares account for 80% of the market.The restructuring of some big companies, such as Hynix and Daewoo Motor, remains incomplete, as does bank reform. But the past four years of financial and corporate change may soon pay off. For many companies, balance-sheet problems have turned into the need to measure profits, a far more welcome task.Economist; 12/22/2001, Vol. 361 Issue 8253, p86, 1/2p, 1 graph词汇注释bar prep. 除…之外rally n. 重整;(市场价格) 回升，跌后复升;恢复健康; 振作精神;集会, 大会;汽车赛会over-the-counter【证券】 (不通过交易所)买卖双方直接交易的，场外交易的(每位买者或卖者都是经过协议与议价来达成股票的买卖)option n. 选择权, [经]买卖的特权interest-rate swap 利率掉期;利率调期won [wCn] n. [sing., pl. ]圆(南北朝鲜的货币单位)index futures 指数期货hedge n. [经]对冲blow hot and cold (on, about) 出尔反尔;三心二意; 反复无常; 拿不定主意stake [steIk] n. (木头或金属的)柱，桩;股份;利害关系have [take] a stake in sth. 与某事有利害关系，与…休戚相关debt-laden 债台高筑的pay off 还清;偿清;报复;偿还;结清工资解雇(某人);成功参考译文选择权在招手为什么投资者对韩国蓝筹股情有独钟?尽管世界经济不景气, 但今年南韩的股市行情却比除俄国以外其他国家的股市都好。
自1月1日以来，韩国股市的综合股价指数(Kospi)上升了25%。
因外国股东购买股票而使韩国股市跌后复升的情况明年还有望持续下去，原因有二：它遵循令人鼓舞的经济基本法则;引入了为世界对冲基金所钟爱的衍生工具。
明年1月28日，韩国的证券交易所就将引入以下七家上市公司股票选择权契约：SK电信、韩国电力、韩国电信、三星电子、现代汽车、浦项钢铁和韩国国民银行。
7月份，预计金融监督管理委员会允许投资银行出售场外衍生工具，如股权或利率调期。
证券市场的交易额也将相应增加, 美林集团总裁Lee Wonki 说。
外国股东持有近90兆韩圆(700亿美元)的韩国股票, 占整个股市的37%。
他们的综合股价指数200期货和选择权的交易额从一年前的约5%上升到今年的10%。
但涉及200个公司的韩国综合股价指数不是限制外国股票投资的最好方式。
外国投资者的投资方向主要集中在七个蓝筹股上。
单衍生工具一项并不能支撑得起韩国的权益股本，除非经济明显好转。
有迹象显示，韩国的经济已降至谷底，今年韩国真实的国内生产总值估计至少增长了2.8%(低于去年的水平，但高于原先预测的2%或以下)。
韩国财政部长陈稔预言，虽然出口明年也许会受一些损失，但如果日元继续下跌，国内需求和政府开支将有助于真实的国内生产总值增长到全国全部潜能的5%。
有些分析人员争辩说，最近的市场攀高是由于投资者轻率盲目相信了银行和科技股造成的。
后者(科技股)上个月跌后复升, 但随后又像美光科技(美国的一家内存芯片生产厂家)那样出现徘徊不前的局面，这使那些与现代(韩国债台高筑的内存芯片制造商)利害相关或与之结盟的投资者拿不定主意。
然而, 股市上升走势可能还会继续下去, 设在汉城的SG证券Koh Wonjong 说，这是因为南韩的产业界比其它亚洲国家的产业界更具多样化——它有信息技术、汽车、造船、钢铁和服务业等行业，而在台湾，电信、媒介和技术股占了整个股市的80%。
对某些大公司——譬如现代和大宇汽车——的重组像银行改革一样尚不完善。
但过去四年金融界和产业界所发生的变化不久可能会初见成效。
对许多公司而言，资产负债表(问题处理)法已经成为衡量利润的需要，一项更合时宜的任务。
考研英语经济类阅读理解及原文翻译：Clattering over a moonscape The great railway revivalTHE train was running late, but the 35 aboriginal children who had travelled for two hours through the South Australian desert to meet it did not seem tomind. It was, after all, Australias and one of the worlds most unusual train journeys. When the Indian Pacific passenger train finally ground to a halt at Watson, a siding on Australias transcontinental line, the children burst into a rendition of a Spanish Christmas song, "Feliz Navidad", as Father Christmas disembarked to distribute gifts.Watson is a red desert moonscape on the Nullarbor Plain at the eastern end of the worlds longest stretch of straight rail track, 478km (297 miles). This is a mere one-tenth of the 4,352km, three-day journey the train was making between Sydney on Australias east coast and Perth on the west coast. The Indian Pacific and its predecessors, such as the Tea and Sugar Train that took provisions to isolated outback communities, were once symbols of Australias conquest of its vast distances. But by the 1990s, air travel and the neglect of Australias railways by their federal andstate-government owners almost killed the last east-west passenger train.After threatening to close the loss-making Indian Pacific, the federal government in Canberra sold it and the Ghan, another outback passenger train, to Great Southern Railway (GSR), a British-owned privateconsortium, in 1997. GSR has now turned a first-year loss of A$20m ($15m) into a small operating profit by restoring rolling stock, hiring young, multi-skilled, non-unionised crews and re-marketing the trains to locals and tourists alike. One innovation was to send the Indian Pacific on a whistle-stop Christmas run taking gifts and music to the outback. This years journey, the fifth, with impromptu concerts at remote sidings by Jimmy Barnes, an Australian rock star, drew the biggest crowds so far. Broken Hill, a town in western New South Wales struggling since its big silver, lead and zinc mine started winding down, now relies on the Indian Pacifics tourist passengers for economic lifeblood.The Ghans revival on the north-south transcontinental line has been even more remarkable. The 65,000-plus passengers it carried through the Northern Territory in 2004 were 60% more than in the previous year. Public interest grew after the opening of a new line between Alice Springs and Darwin, allowing people to make the two-day journey from Adelaide by rail for the first time. GSR plans to double the Ghans frequency in 2005.The railway revival still has inefficiencies to overcome. The Indian Pacific competes for space on the single track with trains that carry 80% of the freight between Australias east and west coasts. Though most of the line is straight and flat, speed limitations mean this is not a journey for anyone in a hurry.--------------------------------------------------------------------------------Economist; 12/18/2004, Vol. 373 Issue 8406, p54-54, 2/5p注(1)：*选自Economist; 12/18/2004, p54-54, 2/5p;注(2)：*习题命题模仿对象2004年真题Text 1;1.What was the Indian Pacific like before its selling to GSR?[A]It always posed a threat to the federal government.[B]It was mainly used for carrying cargos.[C]It almost broke down and collapsed.[D]It helped Australia conquer its vast land.2.Which of the following is not true about “the Indian Pacific”?[A]It was not popular with passengers with its low speed.[B]It used to be a symbol of Australias conquest of its vast distance.[C]It almost disappeared because of the air travel and the neglect of Australias railway.[D]Many ways have been adopted to revive it.3.The main idea of paragraph 3 and paragraph 4 is that __________.[A]what is the use of reviving the railway[B]what effect the revival of the railway has brought about[C]how to deal with the difficulties in the development of railway[D]how the measures are adopted to revive the collapsing railways4.What benefit can the revival of the railway bring to some remote and rural area?[A]It can bring happiness to the children there.[B]It can help develop the economy.[C]It can lessen the burden of the government.[D]It can bring a lot of job opportunities.5.What difficulty is the Indian Pacific facing today?[A]The train goes so slowly that many people will not take it.[B]The space for developing the Indian Pacific is not large enough.[C]The frequency of using the single track line is low.[D]Carrying passengers is less profitable than carrying the freight.答案：CADBC篇章剖析*介绍了澳大利亚一些通往内地的乘客列车由于某些原因几乎陷入关闭的境地，现在澳大利亚正在掀起复兴铁路的热潮。