首页
登录
职称英语
Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than
Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than
游客
2023-12-18
26
管理
问题
Greece, economically, is in the black. With very little to export other than such farm products as tobacco, cotton and fruit, the country earns enough from "invisible earnings" to pay for its needed, growing imports. From the sending out of things the Greeks, earn only $285 million; from tourism, shipping and the remittances of Greeks abroad, the country takes in an additional $375 million and this washes out the almost $400 million by which imports exceed exports.
It has a balanced budget. Although more than one drachma out of four goes for defense, the government ended a recent year with a slight surplus—$66 million. Greece has a decent reserve of almost a third of a billion dollars in gold and foreign exchange. It has a government not dependent on coalescing incompatible parties to obtain parliamentary majorities.
In thus summarizing a few happy highlights, I don’t mean to minimize the vast extent of Greece’s problems. It is the poorest country by a wide margin in Free Europe, and poverty is widespread. At best an annual income of $60 to $70 is the lot of many a peasant, and substantial unemployment plagues the countrysides, cities, and towns of Greece. There are few natural resources on which to build any substantial industrial base. Some years ago I wrote here:
"Greek statesmanship will have to create an atmosphere in which home and foreign savings will willingly seek investment opportunities in the back ward economy of Greece. So far, most American and other foreign attempt have bogged down in the Greek government’s red tape and shrewdness about small points."
Great strides have been made. As far back as 1956, expanding tourism seemed a logical way to bring needed foreign currencies and additional jobs to Greece. At that time I talked with the Hilton Hotel people, who had been examining hotel possibilities, and to the Greek government division responsible for this area of the economy. They were hopelessly deadlocked in almost total differences of opinion and outlook.
Today most of the incredibly varied, beautiful, historical sights of Greece have new, if in many cases modest, tourist facilities, Tourism itself has jumped from approximately$31 million to over $90 million. There is both a magnificent new Hilton Hotel in Athens and a completely modernized, greatly expanded Grande Bretagne, as well as other first-rate new hotels. And the advent of jets has made Athens as accessible as Paris or Rome—without the sky-high prices of traffic-choked streets of either. [br] Many peasants earn less than ______.
选项
A、$60 a week
B、$2 a week
C、$1 a day
D、$10 a month
答案
B
解析
少于2美元一星期。文章第三段第三句:最佳情况,年收人为60~70美元是大多数农民的份额。所以B项最接近年收入。
转载请注明原文地址:https://tihaiku.com/zcyy/3283096.html
相关试题推荐
Weallenjoyalittleextra-specialeverynowandthen,whetherit’saprime
"littledidtheEnglishpeopleownhimforhisservice"(paragraphone)meansth
"littledidtheEnglishpeopleownhimforhisservice"(paragraphone)meansth
______hasbecometheworld’slargestexporteroffish.A、CanadaB、TheUnitedSta
"Toerrishuman,toforgive,divine"."Alittlelearningisadangerousthing"
InancientGreeceathleticfestivalswereveryimportantandhadstrongrelig
InancientGreeceathleticfestivalswereveryimportantandhadstrongrelig
Whichofthefollowingisanexocentricconstruction?A、Themaninblack.B、Theo
NewZealandistheworld’slargestexportersof______.A、lamb.B、expertise.C、ho
Greece,economically,isintheblack.Withverylittletoexportotherthan
随机试题
GlobalDevelopmentsSociologiststellusthereisalink
A. B. C. D.
世界上第一台自动生化分析仪产生于A.19世纪40年代 B.20世纪60年代
在银团贷款中,单家银行担任牵头行时,其承贷份额原则上不少于银团融资总金额的___
三焦是()。A.一个单一的形态器官B.胸腔和腹腔C.经络系统的实质内容之一D.
断路器交接试验及例行试验中,应进行(____)测试,并同时测量分/合闸线圈电流波
关于处方药,下列说法错误的是:A.不可自行购买和使用 B.催眠安定药不属于处方
关于个人存款业务,下列说法中正确的是()。A.存款人的利息税由存款人主动向税务
2018年5月,某房屋中介公司购置价值3000元的电脑一台,作为固定资产处理,该
《行政处罚法》规定的“一事不二罚”是指对当事人的同一个违法行为不得给予两次以上(
最新回复
(
0
)