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 trouble in Europe is the major reason.
A、true
B、false
【正确答案】：A
【名师解析】:根据题目内容，文章讨论了欧洲单一市场的前景，指出由于欧洲目前正面临严重的经济问题，这可能对新市场的未来发展造成影响。文章提到，尽管单一市场的初衷是创造更大的繁荣，但它的推出时机却恰逢欧洲经历多年来最严重的经济风暴之一。文章引用了一位助手的话，指出1992年的失业率预计将与项目开始前几乎持平，接近10%，同时预计明年的经济增长将降至1%。这些因素都导致了消费者和企业信心的下降，回到了单一市场之前的欧洲悲观情绪时期。
此外，文章还提到，企业和独立分析师都预计到了单一市场的经济利益，因此，为新市场准备的经济活动大部分已经在1985年决定创建单一市场后的1985年至1990年间发生，那时商业投资从之前的五年持平增长到了7%的年增长率。
题目要求判断的是“经济问题在欧洲是主要原因”，根据文章内容，这一说法是正确的，因为文章明确指出了欧洲的经济问题对新市场未来发展的负面影响。因此，题目答案为A.true。
