Passage 2
Economic Troubles Cloud New Market's Future
But perhaps the major reason is the dark economic clouds now hanging over Europe. One of the central justifications for the single market was its ability to create greater prosperity, but it is making its debut just as Europe traverses one of its roughest economic storms in year.
"We are going to wind up 1992 with just about the same level of unemployed-nearly 10 per cent community wide that we had before this project," says an aide to Mr. Delors. In addition, economic growth is skidding to an anticipated 1 per cent next year, all of which adds up to consumer and business confidence sinking to the same lows recorded during the pre-single market days of Europessimism.
Both EC and independent analysts say that business anticipated the economic benefits of the single market, so that much of the burst of economic activity in preparation for the new market has already occurred.
Business investment, which had been flat for the five years preceding the decision in 1985 to create the single market, soured to a 7 per cent annual growth rate from1985-1990.
Business investment increased at 5% growth rate in 1990s.
A、true
B、false
【正确答案】：B
【名师解析】:根据题目内容，选项B是正确的。文章提到了欧洲正在经历一个严重的经济风暴，这与选项A中提到的“经济繁荣”相反。文章中提到，尽管单一市场旨在创造更大的繁荣，但它的推出时机却不佳，正值欧洲经济困难时期。此外，文章还提到失业率预计在1992年将保持在接近10%的水平，经济增长预计在明年将降至1%，这都表明消费者和企业信心正在下降，回到了单一市场之前的欧洲悲观时期。此外，文章还指出，由于企业已经预期到了单一市场带来的经济利益，因此在1985年决定创建单一市场之前的五年内，商业投资已经增长了7%，而在1990年代，商业投资的增长率为5%。这些数据和情况都与选项A中描述的“经济繁荣”不符，因此选项B是错误的。
