每周一聽——那些年我們一起練過的聽力（第十六期）
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獎(jiǎng)項(xiàng)——聽寫后正確填空者可得BB獎(jiǎng)勵(lì)
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Eleven countries first began to use the euro in nineteen ninety-nine. Today seventeen of the twenty-seven members of the European Union are in the euro area.
The euro's    (1)    exchange value has remained strong against the dollar and other currencies. But economic growth in the euro area was only two-tenths of one percent from April to June. Europe's biggest economy, Germany, grew at half that rate.
Ireland, Portugal and Greece have all required    (2)    . Greece received emergency loans twice.
Debt and other problems in southern Europe remain a big    (3)    . Last week, the European Central Bank bought more than thirty billion dollars in Italian and Spanish debt securities.
Italy and Spain have yet to recover from the worldwide    (4)    . The purchases of their government debt helped reduce their borrowing costs, but the bank will probably have to act again.
On Tuesday German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy met in Paris. They discussed economic governance for the euro area and cooperation on budget and tax policies. Chancellor Merkel said, "We want France and Germany to move closer in terms of fiscal    (5)    ." President Sarkozy agreed that the two neighbors must move closer on budget issues.
Their proposal calls for a "true European economic government." It would include the leaders of the seventeen euro countries and would be led by the    (6)    . The current president is Herman Van Rompuy of Belgium.  The group would meet at least twice a year.
One goal would be to control budget deficits for euro area countries.  Rules limit the deficits of EU members to three percent of the size of their economies. But many members, including France, have bigger deficits than that.
The two leaders also proposed a tax on financial dealings in Europe. But they did not support the idea of    (7)    . These would be    (8)    by all euro countries instead of only the governments seeking them.
The European Commission says it supports the French and German proposals. The commission proposes and    (9)    for the EU. On Wednesday, EU spokesman Olivier Bailly said the calls for an economic government were a step in the right direction.
OLIVIER BAILLY: "We already mentioned the need to strengthen the economic part of the economic and monetary union.  What is happening now since the beginning of the crisis and what has been announced yesterday as a proposal by France and Germany go exactly in this direction."
But many experts question    (10)    and deal with their debt problems together.