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.
The economic growth rate next year is expected to be about 1% in European Community.
A、true
B、false
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:根据文章内容，选项A表示的是"true"。文章提到了欧洲目前正面临经济困难，这与选项A的陈述相符。文章中提到了以下几点：
1. 欧洲目前正经历着经济风暴，这与选项A中提到的经济困难相符。
2. 预计1992年的失业率将与项目开始前相同，接近10%，这进一步强调了经济的困难。
3. 经济预期增长仅为1%，这表明经济增长放缓，与选项A中的经济问题相一致。
4. 消费者和商业信心下降到与欧洲悲观主义时期相同的低点，这进一步证实了经济困难的存在。
因此，根据文章内容，选项A的陈述是真实的，所以答案是A。
