第五篇英国经济
①In order to"change lives for the better"and reduce"dependency"，George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer,introduced the"upfront work search"scheme.
为了让生活变的更好以及减少依赖，乔治奥斯本，英国财务大臣，引入了“诚信求职”计划。
②Only if the jobless arrive at the job center with a CV,register for the online job search,and start looking for work will they be eligible for benefit-and then they should report weekly rather than fortnightly.
1)Be eligible for sth：有资格获得…
Be eligible to do sth：有资格做…( )
2）aspire to sth渴望获得…
Aspire to do sth渴望做…
3)register for注册
只有当失业者拿着简历来到求职中心，并且注册在线求职，开始工作以后，才有资格获得福利.而且这些失业者应该每周汇报而不是每两周汇报一次。
③What could be more reasonable?
还能更合理吗?（这是再合理不过了。）
①More apparent reasonableness followed.
看起来更合理的事情在后面呢。
②There will now be a seven-day wait for the jobseeker's allowance.
在获得求职者的补助前需要7天的等待期。
③"Those first few days should be spent looking for work,not looking to sign on."
“这七天应该用来积极工作，而不是等补助！”
④he claimed,"We're doing these things because we know they help people stay off benefits and help those on benefits get into work faster."
他说道，我们之所以做这些事情，是因为我们知道这样做会帮助人们远离福利，而且能帮助那些依靠福利的人赶快到工作。
⑤Help?Really？On first hearing,this was the socially concerned chancellor,trying to change lives for the better,complete with"reforms"to an obviously indulgent system that demands too little effort from the newly unemployed to find work,and subsidizes laziness.
帮助？真的？听起来这个人是一个关心社会的大臣，试着让生活变得更好，完成对于一个明显纵容（民众）的系统的改革，这个系统对于那些刚失业的人在工作方面没有提出任何努力的要求并且在补贴着懒惰。
⑥What motivated him,we were to understand,was his zeal for"fundamental fairness"-protecting the taxpayer,controlling spending and ensuring that only the most deserving claimants received their benefits.
我们也懂的，促使他这样做的是他对于“根本的公平”的苛求，所谓根本的公平就是指:1.保护纳税人。2.控制财政支出。3.只有最有资格的申请人才能领取福利。
①Losing a job is hurting:you don’t skip down to the job center with a song in your heart, delighted at the prospect of doubling your income from the generous state.
失业是一件让人很受伤的事情：你不会哼着小曲，然后一蹦一跳的到求职中心。开心的憧憬你的收入会从这个慷慨的国度翻倍。
②It is financially terrifying,psychologically embarrassing and you know that support is minimal and extraordinarily hard to get.
失业是件让人在财务上恐惧的事情，心理上尴尬的事情，同时你知道失业补助是非常少的而且是极度难拿的。
③You are now not wanted;you are now excluded from the work environment that offers purpose and structure in your life.
你现在不被需要了；你被排除在工作环境之外，而工作环境提供给你工作的目的和生活的结构。
④Worse,the crucial income to feed yourself and your family and pay the bills has disappeared.
更糟糕的事情是，能养活你自己和家庭，能支付账单的关键收入已经消失了。
⑤Ask anyone newly unemployed what they want and the answer is always:a job.
去问任何你个刚失业的人，他们想要什么，回答一直都是：工作！
①But in Osborneland,your first instinct is to fall into dependency-permanent dependency if you can get it–supported by a state only too ready to indulge your falsehood.
Instinct本能
“Osborneland”源自于”England”，这是对奥斯本的一种调侃；觉得英国已经被你搞成你的国了。
但是在奥斯本的理念中，你的第一本能是陷入依靠，如果你能得到，那甚至就是永久的依靠，而一个做好一切准备的国家纵容着你的谎言，提供着这种依靠。
②It is as though20years of ever–tougher reforms of the job search and benefit administration system never happened.
这搞的好像，在过去的20年间，严格的对于求职和福利管理的改革从来没有发生过一样。
③The principle of British welfare is no longer that you can insure yourself against the risk of unemployment and receive unconditional payments if the disaster happens.
英国福利的原则不再是你能保证你自己能抵抗失业的风险，或者在灾难发生时，你能收到无条件的收入。
④Even the very phrase“jobseeker’s allowance”is about redefining the unemployed as a “jobseeker”who had no fundamental right to benefit he or she has earned through making national insurance contributions.
甚至“求职者的补助”这个短语就是重新把失业者定义为“求职者”，这样他们就没有基本的权利去享受福利。这些福利他或她通过对国家保险系统做贡献而挣来的。
⑤Instead,the claimant receives a time-limited“allowance”，conditional on actively seeking
a job:no entitlement and no insurance,at￡71.70a week,one of the least generous in the EU.
Least generous：最少；
相反，申请者获得的是时间有限的补助，以积极工作为条件限制的补助，没有福利的权利，没有保险，一周71.7英镑，整个欧盟金额最少的补助。
21.George Osborne’s scheme was intended to
［A］provide the unemployed with easier access to benefits.
［B］encourage jobseeker’s active engagement in job seeking.
［C］motivate the unemployed to report voluntarily.
［D］guarantee jobseekers’legitimate right to benefit.
22.The phase“to sigh on”（Line3,Para.2）most probably means
［A］to check on the availability of jobs at the job center.
［B］to accept the government’s restrictions on the allowance.
［C］to register for an allowance from the government.
［D］to attend a governmental job-training program.
23.What prompted the chancellor to develop his scheme?
［A］A desire to secure a better life for all.
［B］An eagerness to protect the unemployed.
［C］An urge to be generous to the claimants.
［D］A passion to ensure fairness for taxpayers.
24.According to Paragraph3,being unemployed makes one feel
［A］uneasy.
［B］enraged.
［C］insulted.
［D］guilty.
25.To which of the following would the author most probably agree？
［A］The British welfare system indulges jobseekers’laziness.
［B］Osborne’s reform will reduce the risk of unemployment.
［C］The jobseekers’allowance has met their actual needs.
［D］Unemployment benefits should not be made conditional.
第六篇英国经济
①For the first time in history more people live in towns than in country.

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